Show Butler Wash Claims Another Victim Thursday I Perry Winters 22 year old BlandIng youth became the tho I first highway fatality of the year In San Juan county last I Thursday morning when he was killed in a truck accident at the notorious Butler Butter Wash canyon south of Bluff BluH Critically cally injured was his brother Jimmy who was rushed to the tho San Juan hospital In Mon Mona Winters was driving south In a n tanker truck belonging r I to the San Juan Oil Co when I the accident occurred The vehicle had crossed the one one- I way bridge at Butler Butter Wash ton on Highway 47 and started I f up the west side of the wash I. I He Be failed to make the first turn and plunged some 30 feet over the rolling roiling over one and one halt times The victim was thrown from the truck and pinned beneath the tanker Ills His brother brother brother bro bro- ther was picked up by a passing passing pas pas- sing motorist and rushed to a hospital at Monticello The tanker was loaded with gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel for delivery to the uranium mill in Mexican Hat Estimated value of the damages damages dam dam- ages was The fatality occurred In almost almost almost al al- al- al most exactly the same spot as the last San Juan fatality of 1963 when one man died in a truck 2 collision |