Show CITY WORKMEN VICTIMS WHEN HEN 1 Chris Carstensen Is Killed in Mishap ALL IN WATER Timely Help elp Saves Two Lives One man was killed and three were Injured when a huge hug ton three city street department truck plunged off oft the road and down a foot 20 embankment and Into the stream In City Creek canyon at the entrance to Pleasant valley about two miles from the tho mouth at o'clock Saturday morning The dead Chris Carstensen 45 6 years old old of ot 1040 California avenue a crushed to tp death beneath the truck The injured I Frank Jarvis 68 of West SeVenth Seventh Sev Seve South street fractured right clavicle bruised right side aide arm and hand Frank 19 19 of South Ninth West Yest street concussion body bod bruises shock and exposure E. E M. M Campbell Campbeli 32 of ot 88 East Seventh Se South street street fractured right leg leg- leg below below the shock and exposure Campbell and Zener were pinned beneath the heavy y truck in the waters waters waters wa wa- wa- wa of city creek for about twenty five fhe minutes 8 able to move mO only sufficiently to keep their heads out of ot the water TWO LIVES SAVED Only Only for tor the timely arrival of ot Thomas Carig East Fourth South street treet distribution Inspector In for tor the water department his Ms assistant Ted Lewis of ot PierPont Pierpont Pier Pier- pont avenue Campbell and might have drowned These men proceeding to th the headwaters o ot of City creek passed passed- the scene of ot the accident a few minutes after it hap hap- They were attracted d b by Jarvis Jar who yelled to them from the bott bottom m moC of oC the creek bed where here he w was wa's ws s en- en dG l to extricate himself from the hg d bows of t e cam cany canvas as s and wood top over the drivers driver's seat seat of ot the truck Little assistance was waR required of or orthe the two men to help Jarvis out of or his trouble The three then saw they were helpless in anything they might attempt to 10 relieve relie Campbell and Zeng r. r Carig started for help and soon found Ed Knox and a creot crew cre of ot men from from- the waterworks de department department department de- de proceeding up the canyon canon i in a a. hea heavy truck The truck was commandeered to pull the street de department department do- do truck off oft Campbell Campbell Campbell Camp Camp- bell and and Carstensen R. R W W. Jefferson of Fourth ave e avenue avenue nue who ha had started up the can canyon on with his family on a s 's outing volunteered the use machine i Continued on I page ge 5 CITY WORKMEN VICTIMS WHEN TRUCK PLUNGES Continued from page 1 to carry Campbell and to the emergency hospital Carstensen was dead when extricated On his way down the canyon Mr Jefferson met the police ambulance which had been summoned from the reservoir keepers keeper's house below the spot where the accident occurred The Injured men were turned over overto overto overto to J. J S. S Kelly amb ambulance lance driver and W. W D. D patrolman Later the ambulance returned to the scene of the accident and took Carstensen's Carstensen's Carstensen's Carsten- Carsten sens sen's body and Jarvis to the emergency emergency emer eater gency hospital The workmen were on their way to toa toa a group of ol springs on the east side of the canyon above Pleasant Valley Val Val- ley Jarvis was in charge of the party was driving the truck With these three men as his assistants Jarvis was to pipe the springs down to tanks near the roadway where It I could b be drawn off oft by sprinkler wagons and used to dampen the canyon road this summer FOUR ON SEAT V All AU four tour men were riding In the front seat according to Jarvis Campbell was seated on the westside westside west westside side of the seat next to the driver Jarvis was seated on Zen- Zen ger gers ger's s right and Carstensen on the outside of the east portion of the seat i S The truck seat Is said to have been plenty large enough for four men to sit on and allow the he driVer freedom to operate the machine In making the last run where the road begins an upgrade through Pleasant valley Is said to have failed to swing his steering wheel around and direct the tho truck back into the traffic channel on the right side of the road TAKES SUDDEN DIP The heavy truck started to slip sUp toward the creek bed and Carstensen Carsten Carsten- sen shifted his position to the step as if intending to leap off Jarvis said in giving his version of the tho accident Then seemed to gain control of the machine and It appeared to be resuming a normal position on the road Carstensen again tools tool his seat and all of a sudden the truck seemed to shift down the embankment as If it part of the r road rad ad had caved away In a n sideWise position the truck went careening down the twenty-foot twenty embankment turning over one and anda a half times before It rested i in the stream Falling on the side where Carstensen Carstensen Carstensen Car Car- stensen was sitting and taking the workman unawares just after h he had regained his Is seat thinking that everything was all right he w was s apparently unable to leap clear of the truck according to his companion companion com corn panion workmen RESTS ON BODY V The truck bed rested upon Carstensen's Carstensen's Carstensen's Car- Car stensen's head arid and body crushing them into the rocky rocky- beneath beneath be beneath be- be neath the water He is thought to have died Instantly V Examination of the body at police headquarters I revealed that Carstensen had suffered suffered suf suf- I a skull fracture broken neck and fractures of both legs Both Campbell and were pinned helplessly beneath the truck while JarviS landed In a less serious serious se serious se- se rious condition only being held down by the canvas top tot over the drivers driver's seat He soon extricated himself Carstensen who was a brother brotherto to the late C. C C. C Carstensen former for for- mer mar well known police officer is survived ved by a wife Mrs Annie Russell Carstensen and the following followIng fol fol- lowing children Vivian Harold Fred and Pearl With his mother Mrs Mary Carstensen four brothers T. T J J. Hyrum J. J Orson and George Carstensen Carstensen Carstensen Car Car- stensen and sister fister Mr Mrs B. B l F. F Duffin fin Carstensen was to take talce part In Inthe inthe inthe the burial Sunday of his father I Frederick Carstensen |