Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-18 | Page 11 | Truck Crushes City Worker

TRUCKGHUSHES CITYWDRKER Jena Peter Walgren ; -'jf MeeU Death : Jens Peter Walgren, A, ' of . IStS West Second ' North (treet. city employ, waa fatally Injured Tnea, day afternoon while working with a gang of. atreet laborers at fourth venue and' E atreet. A beayry truck with' it brake looaeaed backed 'down a mU hill oa top of th man aa he wa apreadlng gravel Juat dumped out of the traok. Companion notified -the emergency emer-gency noepltal and tb man wa picked up, but died en rout to th koapltal. He wa badly mangled boat the leg and lower body. M.- B. Reld. driver of the truck, had alighted and waa standing thirty feet away when. It atart.d to slid down th hill. He made a daah for the machine, en which be declared ba had aet the brake before leaving, but wa unable to reach M before Walgren waa caught. . Wejgren wa barn In Denmark? January, 1S44, and came to Utah In 13. He I eurvtved hi widow, Chrlatlna" Walirren. 101S West Second North atreet. and tha following km' and daughter: Mr. lianaene Jorgnen, Copenhagen. Copen-hagen. Denmark; liana P. Walgren, Wal-gren, ?alt Lake; Knute Walgren, Bait Lake: Mr. Annie Neby. Por-tervllle. Por-tervllle. Cal. and Mr. J. H. Ruber. Bait Lake. In addition he la ur-vlv.d ur-vlv.d by alxteen grandchndrea and eerea great-grandchildren.