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Show Iron Mine Employee Killed Near Salt Lake City Jack Cummings Blood, 31, an employee at the iron mines west of Cedar City, was killed in an automobile accident near Salt Lake City shortly after midnight Saturday. Mr. Blood and Ronald Earl Madsen, 16, of Salt Lake City, were struck by a car driven driv-en by Brandt S. Robinson, also of Salt Lake City, as they were standing beside their automobiles automo-biles on U. S. Highway 40, about two miles west of the Salt Lake municipal airport. Mr. Blood and Mr. Madsen had been involved in a minor collision colli-sion a few minutes earlier, and were standing beside their cars discussing the collision when they were struck by the Robinson vehicle. Mr. Blood was killed almost al-most instantly, according to traffic traf-fic reports, and Mr. Madsen succumbed suc-cumbed to his injuries the following fol-lowing day. Mr. Blood was born in Park City on Nov. 21, 1920, a son of .Tracy and Edith Cummings Blood. He attended Wasatch high school in Heber City, and on March 21, 1947, he married Florence Flor-ence Peterson in Ely, Nev. Surviving are his widow and parents, Cedar City, and a brother, bro-ther, Bobby Blood, Rosemead, Calif., and two grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Cummings, Heber City. Funeral services were held in Heber City Wednesday afternoon and burial was made in the Heber He-ber cemetery. |