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Show Pleasure Seekers Injured In Wreck i Five passengers, riding in an Essex automobile and driven by its owner, Grant Larson, barely escaped serious injury Saturday evening when the machine ma-chine rolled over on its side after colliding col-liding with a sign post at the junction of the highway just north of town. Miss Mae Wilkinson, and Miss Mary Baxter, passengers, sustained severe bruises and cuts, while the others were more or less bruised. Miss Wilkinson Wil-kinson received severe cuts on the legs and knee and it was necessary to take her to the Salina hospital for treatment. treat-ment. Miss Baxter's shoulder was badly bad-ly bruised) as a result of being jammed jam-med when the car tipped over. Both of the young women will be confined1 to their homes for several days. Ot.hcr passengers of the ill-fated car escaped es-caped with minor injuries. Mr. Larson driver, of the Essex, stated that the accident was no fault of his. The party, it was said, was enroute to Palisade and1 wdien turning east at the junction of the Levan and Manti roads, an oncoming auto was holding the inside of the road and was coming at a good clip, forcing Larson to the left side of the road. In trying to avoid a collision between the two cars the Larson car hit the big sign post, turning the Elssex over on ite side. The unknown driver of the other car speeded up and was out of sight, before the imprisoned occupants of the Essex were freed. The Larson car had the top badly torn and fenders slightly slight-ly smashed. |