Show CLOSE CALL TO DEATH on tuesday mr air C N christensen Christens cn wife eind and family and a lady friend drove over to logan in the family benzine buggy spent a pleasant day and returned in the evening on the way home however the party had an experience peri ence that makes each of 0 them have a creepy feeling every time it is recalled 11 to while coming up the dugway out of dry lake with the machine plowing steadily ahead on low gear a pin drop pod out of the steering gear and the machine swerved into a big rock at the side of the road striking it a side blow with the front wheels causing it to leap through the air off to one side and down the hill jor for a considerable sid erable distance landing on a huge boulder with two wheels on the edge ot of the road and the other two wheels resting on the steeply sloping hill the machine alighted on the rear axel so that the power caused the wheels to spin around but th the rock held it firm preventing it from tipping or skidding down the hill had it not been for that rock the mac machine would undoubtedly have turned turtle and rolled down the steep dugway with disastrous results to the occupants the family got out as quickly as possible and mr bir christensen Chrls had to take a hammer and break away the rock in order to release the machine he fitted a bolt in the steering geer and the run home was made without further accident the party had bad such a close call that mr christensen stated yesterday he be would have sold the machine foil for twenty weri five dollars and a song songie irso some me odo one had come along and I 1 it t to him and ve crimiel it up 0 boot jy |