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Show AUTO WITH TEN PERSONS ROLLS DOWN MOUNTAIN - ONE PERSON IS DEAD AND ONE OR TWO MORE MAY ! DIE AS RESULT OF ACCIDENT WHICH APPALS ALL s SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE STATE. i Driver Withdraws His Attention I From Road for Only a Moment to Look at Defective Spring, I but Wheel is Over Brink when J He Turns Back to His Post. k . i ' One of the worst catastrophes that havo occurred in southern Utah for ' a number of years befel Warren Cox and n car load of nine other people '' ' last Tuesduy while they were ascend- Ing the dugway of the big black ridge above Bellcvue. As a result of the ' j. accident one person is dead, one or i f two others are In an extremely crit- leal condition and mny die, and half i j a dozen others arc suffering from 1 injuries of varying severity. ! 1. When the ill-fated automobile left f the state highway and rolled down I i the steep hill-Bide, over volcanic rocks I and brush to the creek bed nearly 200 ! taf feet b'elow, it contained the following rtjv persons, the extent of whose injuries ;F we briefly describe: xj Warren Cox of St George, chauff- ' eur; skull fractured, two ribs and arm , "' broken, bad contusions about face and head. Believed that he will recover. p.- Mrs. Sarah Casto of Salina, an el- ft derly lady, dead. rap1. Five-year-old Lavon Jensen, of . Richfield, grand-daughter of the dead l ffi woman, leg broken and bad bruises JT ' on head and body, MS"" Alfred Stuck! of Santa Clara, back 1 ' broken and badly smashed up. "Will prpbably not survive. Will Stucki, brother of Alfred, bad bruises and contusions, but injuries not serious. Kay Booth, son of Photographer J. J. Booth of St. George, badly smashed i chest; condition critical, but odds now in favor of recovery. Rev. C. S. Rice, wife and 8 months old baby, of this place: Mr. Rice sustained sus-tained a broken nose and severe con- tusions and bruises about his head. Mrs. Rice suffered less severe injur- ies than her husband, while the baby escaped unharmed. J. E. Taylor, state horticulturist, of Salt Lake City; internal injuries, but " y was able to assist in caring for those with more severe injuries. . How Accident Occurred. J Passengers on the ill-fated car give &,- the following account of how the au- s "' totnoblle came to leave the road and .- v , plunge down the steep and rocky side ' ' of the mountain. They were travel- 'r iag it only a reasonable rate of speed. A defective spring had been giving the driver some concern, and he par-tially par-tially turned and inquired how the spring was holding up. At' this point v in the road there was only a narrow margin between the road and the precipice, of possibly two feet; unconsciously un-consciously the chauffeur turned the steering wheel slightly, and Mr. Tay lor, who was seated in the center of the seven-passenger car, called to Mr. Cox to look out Ho turned quickly and gave a turn to the wheel, but all s too late. In less than a second the car with its contents was rolling down r'V the rugged mountain side. At each 4& & ,X revolution some of the passengers y, ' fell out. Less damage might have been done but for the top, which did not break loose at the first revolu tion but caught some of the passen-, passen-, V gers and drew them under tho rolling i J machine again and again. Stucki, tho J 1 man with the broken back, rolled clear 'to the bed of the creek, but some lit tle distance from where the car fell, up-sjde-down, also at the bottom of the steep incline. News Reaches Ctdar City. The accident happened at just about ! 10 o'clock in the morning, and at 11 o'clock Dr. Leonard received a telephone tele-phone message from Beflevue, bd- ding fipa htsWn to the. scene of the aecidn't Tho Jtocord ??rbo scented i an Important news item,' and bespoke I ' passage in tho doctor's car. In ten minutes we were off and n ono hour had covered tho 25 pr 26 miles to wjjere the accident occurred. Dr, Wpury of St George and Dr. Wil-k'lnwn Wil-k'lnwn of Hurricane were also called 'J!$fi;lve assistance,' and each made a a IliillllllllllllilllillllllllHillilllllllHBllHiiQSBMHwwiHiRllHillllilllllllllillllll quick ruri by automobile to the scene. Was a Gruesome Sight. When wc arrived at tho scone of the accident wo found Mr. Taylor and Mr. Rice and William Stucki walking about and doing what thoy could for those who were injured worse than themselves. Ono car which came up the road half an hour after tho accident, ac-cident, being met by Rev. Rice who was trying to make his way staggeringly stagger-ingly to Bellevue, had returned to that place taking Mr. Cox, Booth, Mrs. Rice and her babo. Tho others were still near where Iho car had left them, but had received such assistance as the survivors could give. Our camera preserved the scene as wc found it at that time. Tho dead woman was nearest the top of the hill, tho little girl with a broken log near half way down, whore most of tho luggage was also scattered, and Stucki lying at the bottom. It required six of us to carry him up to the road, with frequent fre-quent rcata, three of tho least injured in the wreck assisting. Taylor and Rice showed wonderful grit and nerve, taking their places with the new recruits re-cruits and doing their full sharo of the work, though both had injuries severo enough to cause them to faint more than once beforo the arrival of assistance. George H. Ogden camo with the first car upon the scene and also rendered valuable aid to tho injured. in-jured. Soon other cars came from both directions and the principal concern waB to prevent a blockude and further fur-ther damage or injury. The dead and wounded were nlf placed on automobiles au-tomobiles and hurried to whero thoy could receive more thorough examination exami-nation and attention. The corpse and the littlo grand-daughter were bro't to this place, and Rev. Rico and family fam-ily followed a little later In the evening. even-ing. A, Touching Incident. Ono of the most pathetic incidents in the wholo lamentable affair was tho leaving of the littlo Jensen girl, badly injured and in the hands of strangers; asking for her granmoth-er, granmoth-er, whom wo feared to tell her was dead. A mere child among strangers, crushed and mangled, and with hor only friend and protector in this locality lo-cality a corpse. The little girl was taken to Dr. Leonard's private hospital, where she received kind and careful attention. Her parents wore communicated with as soon as possible, and her father, Louis Jensen of Richfield, arrivod here yesterday, and tho littlo girl is doinjf as well as could bo expected,, or hopod for! |