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Show Eight Imperilled In Auto Accident L. D. LaFevor, a prominent stockman stock-man of Spry, Garfield county, was among those suffering injuries from auto accidents along the highway last week. Mr. LaFever, accompanied by his wife and five others, figured in a "spill" as they were speeding through Centerfield last Friday afternoon at four-thirty. The party was traveling in a Chevrolet sedan, and, according to Mr. LaFever, wei'e enroute to Salt Lake. When near the Gilbert Fjeldsted Fjeld-sted home, and while traveling at a good rate, the driver of the car, on the approach of the school truck, slapped on the 4-whccl brakes too quickly, which resulted in swerving the car sidewise. In some manner the car tipped over, landing on its side. The eight passengers, among them being a five-weeks-old baby, were in a jumble and wh:lo trving to make his escape to aid the others, Mr. LaFever struck h;s h"Jd en one of the windows, shattering shat-tering the latter. He sustained a six-inh six-inh cut on the left side of his head, which extended down over the tem-r.l. tem-r.l. rv TTiprn dressed the wound and it took six stitches to close the ugly gash. An artery was severed and Mr. LaFever lost much blood. The Chevrolet sedan, in which the LaFever party were traveling was not ir.ji'red to Pnv rxfcnt pnd sf'r M1" I. a Fever had had his wound dressed, they continued their journey northward.- |