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Show Rodney Neilson Seriously Injured In Car Accident Rodney Neilson of Washington and Royce Christiansen of Salt Lake City, driving a new car, left for the north about midnight last night and on the ridge east of Washington it is thought something some-thing went wrong with the car and it plunged off the road to the right, apparently turning over three or four time in the rocks. X-Ray pictures completed about noon, show Mr. Christiansen with a severe skull fracture in the region of the right temple and serious concussion of the brain, along with numerous scalp and face lacerations, and only a fair chance of recovery, states the attending at-tending surgeon. Mr. Neilson has severe scalp (Continued on page four) Car Accident 'Continued from first pagel wounds, and concussions on the neck as low as the lumbar verte-bae. verte-bae. It is though his chances for recovery' are good unless internal in-ternal injuries, not at present determined, develop. The boys could not remember what haopened. but the car was comDletely demolished. Minus wheels, with the engine driven back into the bodv. it was facing the opposite direction to what the bovs were eoing. Wonder is expressed ex-pressed that the boys escaped serious injury or death. |