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Show Worst Accident In Clark County History Reported On Highway 91 BUNKERVILLE, Nevada. The worst auto accident ever to occur in Clark county, Nev., occurred on Highway 91 near Bunkerville Saturday evening. One man was killed and eight persons injured in the accident involving five autos and two horse-drawn wagons. wa-gons. One car from the east one from the west hit head-on while trying to pass two teams and wagons driven by Will Leavitt and Arthur Hughes. The occupants of one car were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Baldwin, 80, of Los Angeles, who received only shock and minor bruises. The other car driven by Ed Grandpre, accompanied by his wife and Mrs. Earl F. Vanden-burg Vanden-burg and Miss Eunice Lenz, all of South Dakota, was badly wrecked and all the occupants injured. The next two cars slowed down, pulled off the highway and helped with the injured. Jim Meyers, of Gardena, Calif., who was attempting to flag oncoming on-coming cars was run down and fatally injured when the car (Continued on page four) Clark CounAcddenT (Continued from first page) driven by Russell Peterson 2r of Hyrum, Utah, struck him wl' ere, whose leg and been mJ tated many years ago was vvearinl an artificial limb attached at th knee and the wooden leg w,e caught up under the car which pinned him down. Mr. Meyers un fastened it himself and the fiv" men in the car climbed out hastily and helped lift the heavy machine off him. Mr. Meyers and Mrs Vandenburg were put on a mattress mat-tress in the back of Justice of l the Peace Warren Hardy's pick. ' up truck and taken to the Las Vegas hospital. Mr. Meyers died before reaching Glendale. All others, who were injured were also taken to hospitals by Kenneth Earl and Donald Toblep |