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Show GOOD DUCKING FOR RECKLESS AUTOISTS A bunch of Joy riders who uttempt- Hl to "fonl- tho creek near tho 7a t ,LnkeKouto station In . auto Sunday, Sun-day, had a narrow escape from death. 1 hero wore six young people i the car, threo boys and threo girls. Ono ,of the girls claimed Payson ns her .homo town, whl0 the omcrs were ftnm Provo. Thoy turned north on , Second East to make tho detour wound Main street. When they roich-crt roich-crt tho creek thoy decided to go through with the car. As they got cut Into Uio stream tho car stopped ,nnd the forco ot tho stream nearly tut nod tho auto over. To prevent this ono of tho boys crawled out on top and balanced the car unUl It was filled with water. Tho car acted as a dam to tho wator and It was not long beforo tho water was up to within with-in a foot of tho top of tho auto, with tho girls and boys heads barely out. A call for help was mado and two email girls who witnessed them drive in, ran to tho homo of R. j. stlcc, jcaent oC tho Salt Lnko Route, who lth others ran to tho asslstanco of tho stranded party. A largo plank was lying near tho bridge, which was placed from tho idling on tho brldgo out to tho top of tho car, and th'o occupanto crawled over to tho bridge. Tho car wtis pulled out by tying ropes to it. It was refilled with oil nnd gasoline and ran as good as over, nr.no tho worso for Its sudden bath. ?ho young peoplo went Into th'o sto. t!cn whero they dried their clothes before leaving for homo. Tho accident acci-dent h'apponed about 7:30 p. m. and it was 11 p. m. borbro they wero able to Icavo. |