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Show Four Victims of Automobile Accidents Die; Worst Auto Accident Week in Dixie History Four People Seriously Injured and Cars Badly Smashed, Sheriff Investigates With four people dead as the result of automobile accidents which have occured in the past week, and with four others seriously seri-ously injured. Dixie has had one of the worst weeks for automobile automo-bile accidents in its history. Paul David Reagan, address unknown, Mrs. Julia Topolovec, 42, Ver-one Ver-one Topolovec, 20, a daughter, of Spring Glen, Utah and Mrs. Morgan, of Gunnison, are the ones who have died to date. In the Topolovec car at the time of the accident were two others, a son, Henry and Alice Gargaro, a sister-in-law of the young man. The accident occured oc-cured at approximately 6 a. 01. , four miles west of Santa Clara. All of the occupants of the car were thrown through the root, with the mother being picked up twenty-six feet beyond the car. Sheriff Antone Prince reports that the car finally came to a stop 204 feet after leaving the highway. Henry Topolovec had been driving but twelve miles back when he had become sleepy and had turned the wheel over to his sister, Verone. It is not known just what caused the accident ac-cident but indications are that the girl went to sleep at the wheel. They were returning from a vacation trip to the coast,, where they had visited with relatives. rel-atives. The mother died an hour after she was brought to the hospital. Her daughter lived until 2 a. m. Wednesday morning, before following fol-lowing her. Miss Gargaro is in the hospital, but, while seriously injured, it is thought that she will pull through. Henry Topoc lovec left Tuesday night for their home to arrange for funeral fun-eral services. The father arrived here Wednesday for the bodies of his wife and daughter. Mrs. Morgan was injured when the car in which she and six others were riding, turned (Continued on page five) ACCIDENTS (Continued from first page) over when her son attempted to miss another car on the turn on the black hill, west of Washington. Wash-ington. Jlrs. Morgan was brought to the local hospital, where every attempt was made to save her life but she died from internal in-ternal injuries at 9:20 Friday night, July 17. The car had overturned and drug her for nearly fifteen feet. Her arm was injured and had to be amputated in an attempt to save her life, but she finally succumhed tn i The group were returning home from St. George after attending at-tending the funeral of Dan Morgan, Mor-gan, another car accident victim, when their accident happened. J. W. Slick received severe cuts and bruises when the car which he was driving turned over about thirteen miles from St. George, approximately one-half one-half mile beyond the Indian reservation, res-ervation, last Saturday night. He was alone in the car and was on his way to Quary, Colorado where he expected to investigate some mining property. Mr. Slick's car was badly damaged and it was necessary for him to remain in the hospital for two days, other than that he seems to be coming along alright, reports Sheriff Antone Prince, who investigated the accident. Cars Badly Damaged All of the cars in these accidents acci-dents were badly damaged. The Topolovec car was a cnmnlptp ; wreck with Mr. Topolovec accepting ac-cepting less than a hundred dollars as payment for the wreckage. wreck-age. Reagan's car also was a complete wreck. Slick's car was severely damaged. |