Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-05-09 | Page 1 | Tooele Auto Stage Overturns; Pins Eight Beneath

TOOELE AUTO STAGE OVERTURNS PINS EIGHT BENEATH Tire Bursts and Machine Spills Passengers rs Near Pleasant Green THREE WOMEN WOMEN VICTIMS Motor Traveling 35 Miles an Hour When Accident Occurs Eight persons were more orless or orl orless l less ss seriously injured today when a T Tooele automobile stage n northbound veered from the roadway and toppled oV r pinning pinning pin pin- ning passengers and driver ben beneath th it The accident occurred on on Fourt Fourteenth South near Pleasant Green A blowout blowout blowout blow blow- out of one of the front tires caused I the accident The injured George A. A Roberts East Fifth South possible fracture of the spinal column at the base of th the brain and severe bruises and lacerations about the face and body Mrs F. F C. C Morton East Fifth South bruises about face and body and severe shock Unidentified woman of Tooele broken arm and amI internal injuries Unidentified man of Tooele broken arm and internal injuries Burke and owner of the stage stage- minor cuts and bruises Two TWo other other- men men residents of Tooele cut an and bruIs bruised d a about out nd w An Another ther w woman man manof of Tooele minor injuries Details of the ac accident dent were dif dif- difficult difficult to to obtain Mrs Morton wh was taken to her home following the accident nt was almost unable to discuss discuss dis dis- cuss it According to to- tr Mr Mrs Morton the stage was ras p passing Pleasant sant Green mid arid traveling traveling trav tray eling ling at a speed of of- about thirty-five thirty miles rules an hour when the accident oc oc- oc curr mn d. d Suddenly one of the front tires burst The machine machine- e- e eran ran a short distance dis dis- tance ance on ho two wheels wheels' veered to one side Bide and toppled oyer Burt Buit who was thrown from the machine machine machine ma ma- chine and ancl only partly caught beneath the wr wreckage managed to extricate himself Vainly for a time he attempted attempt attempt- ed to rescue the tho passengers but only with the arrival of aid was he able to raise the machine sufficiently to permit the rescue of those pinned beneath beneath beneath be be- neath It What was done with the other In Injured Injured In- In jurod passengers Mrs Morton MOlton was unable to say They were not brought to Salt SaUL Lake Ie so far as could be learned and It it- was was stated that those living in Tooele had been taken to their homes in other automobiles The Tooele Stage company Is operated by Burke Coulson from a station at the hotel with a terminal In Tooele The wrecked stage stase left this morning at I 9 o'clock and had traversed a little more than half the distance to Salt Lake Lale when the accident occurred I