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Show Boy Dies from Injuries Received When Horse Collides With Cow GUNLOCK, Utah. Harvey Cook, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Cook of Rigby, Ida., died at approximately 10 p. m., Tuesday night at the McGregor hospital, St. George, from injuries received earlier in the evening when the work horse he was riding collided with a cow in the streets at the lower end of Gunlock. The boy is a grandson of Josiah Leavitt of Gunlock and with his parents and other family members mem-bers was visiting in Gunlock since Friday at the home of Vernon Leavitt. The accident occurred about 8 p. m. Angus Jones was working near where the accident occurred and heard the children calling for help. When he arrived at the scene of the accident the boys asked him to make him more comfortable. Mr. Jones knew that Dr. A. W. McGregor was expected in Gunlock and went to see if he could find him. The doctor had not arrived, so he placed the boy, in, the back his pick-up on a mattress mat-tress and started for St. George. They found the doctor stuck in the sand and helped extricate him and they came on into St. George. At the hospital the doctor found that in addition to a severe cut down the front of his forehead, fore-head, and a bad bruise on the back of his head, the boy had a punctured lung and was bleeding internally. The la'd died about an hout' after he arrived at the hospital. hos-pital. Born in Idaho March 24, 1929, Harvey Cook is one of six children child-ren of Leo and Thelma Leavitt Cook. Surviving besides his par ents are three sisters, Anna Ellen and Irene; two brothers, Vernon and Ivan J., his granfather, Josiah Leavitt, 82, of Gunlock, and his paternal grandparents of Idaho Falls. The body was prepared for burial at the Pickett Mortuary, the family leaving with it this (Thursday) morning for Rigby, where funeral services and burial will be arranged. |