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Show Dixie Student Dies in Zion Park Accident ZION NATIONAL Park Of-ficials at Zion National Park announced that John Russell, 19, of , Ogden, a student at Dixie College, was fatally injured as a result of a fall from the middle Emerald Pool area Sunday. Russell was observed by several friends and other park visitors to be off the established trail and scrambling along an exposed ledge directly above a 90-foot vertical face. Park officials concluded that Russell lost his footing on the slick rock and fell to his death on the rocks below. A physician visiting the park assisted park rangers in resuscitation efforts but to no avail. i Russell was transported to Dixie Medical Center in St. George, Utah, by the Springdale ambulance service. |