Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-22 | Page 9 | One Dies as Light Engine Strikes Auto

ONE DIES AS ' LIGHT EflGluE STRIKES AUTO ... Engineer , Declares H e Knew Nothing of Fatal Accident Until Ha Saw Car Parts on Locornotire , PRICR Aug. 13. Fred Trufohell Is dead and hla partner, Ralph gtakey, age to. of Role pp. Utah. Us In a dying condition at the Winter' hospital today as a result re-sult of a railroad ' crossing accident acci-dent at Spring Olen, altuated one-halt one-halt mile east of Helper, at T o'clock Tuesday night. - Tha - autosnobll In which the men wer riding waa crossing th track at Spring Olen aTiea a llsht engine proceeding towsrd Helper n th Denver A Rio Grande Wester West-er railroad craabed Into tha car. Samuel Dorrlty. engineer on the engine, stated that he did not know of the accident until he noticed parts of the automobile being carried car-ried along by the locomotive. He save that he went about 1(0 feet before etopplng. Immediately following th accident acci-dent Trufchell 'was hurried to the Winter', hospital at Price and attended at-tended by Dr. C. R. Kendell of Helper. Hla skull waa crushed, hla arms and lege were broken and eome ribs were fractured, denoting the fart that he had received the run Impact of the collision. He died on hour after reaching the hospital and hla body waa taken to the Mynn mortuary at Ifrlce. Aocording to Information found her. Trufchell and fltakey were on their way to Spring Glen In eeareh of work when they met their death. It la a id trnt Trufchell Truf-chell jrame here from Wyoming a short time ago. H her Iff Ray Darning Darn-ing and Deputy Sheriff Sam Garrett, Gar-rett, who Investigated the accident, acci-dent, stated today that the oauae waa unknown. Mre. Nick Semi and Stave Pap-paa, Pap-paa, who received broken backs when t heir ra re ak Id ded off t n road near Cotton Sunday. - were taken- to a Salt Lake hospital today to-day by Dr. C. R.' Mc Derma id of Caetlegat. It la expected from the latest reports that Mre. Semis will not be able to survive, but eome hope la held out for Steve Pep pas. Nick Semis, Mrs. Steve Papnaa Christ Vanaelonaa and four children chil-dren eecaped Injury when the car1 t tip pled over In the accident that seriously Injured Mr. .Serais and, Steve Pappaa. " a... .i i in I