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Show LEWIS A. MERRILL H JVSJIJpilip'MiSjripBBBBBBBBBBV b bIjhIDIjIjT)' "'" "' ijijlB 'iLLLi PROF. L. A. MERRILL . I MEETS TRAGIC DEATH IN . I AUTOMOBJLiACCIDENT I Returning to Salt Lake After Business iB Trip to Ogden. Miss Ethel Willmore H of This City Badly Hurt, Together WitH Other Occupants of Automobile. )H Lewlg A. Morrill, agricultural ox-pert ox-pert for tho Salt Lake Route and for, many years a prominent momber of tho faculty ofthq Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college, died at 6:30 Tuosday morning at .St. .Mark's hospital from injuries BUjforcd shortly boforo midnight mid-night in an automobllo accident, Prof. Merrill, with throo companions, compan-ions, waa-ptnhed-beneath a largo ..touring oar onjDivflTuntY toad; near Ka8vil!'onen, tW automobllo plunged .ovor a stijep embankmont, turned turtlo tihd criiBlied to the earth Its occupants 6 feet below tho levol of iho road. Doalh' resulted from a punituro ot tho loft, lung, by n broken left rib. Other Inlo'rrial Injuries woro also ot ,a. fatal nature. Tho mo'mbcra of tho party In Prof.i Morrill's automobllo and tho oitont 'of tholr Injuries wero as folio we: E. W. Ellis', 101 Ninth East street; loft shoulder wrouchod and badly bruised. MIsa Elhol Wlllmoro of Lojjcn. sprained back nnd Internal InJuiluM. MIsb Stolln Chamberlain, 21'J Third avenue, rpralncd right nrm nnd badly bruised. MIbo Wlllmoro la at S't. Martc'H hospital hos-pital whoro flho wno taken followlns tho accident. Though her condition 13 reportod to ho serious, her injuria.! nr cnld to bo not necessarily fatal. Mr. Ellis and Miss Chamburlaln wero nblo to proceed to their homes. Tho nccldcnt occurred near midnight mid-night nbout a mllo north of Farming-ton. Farming-ton. Prof. Morrill, who was driving tho automobllo, was blinded by tho hoadllghtB of another car which was approaching rapidly from tho south, and when ho turned to tho right to glva tho othor automobllo tho roadway, road-way, tho Morrill mnchlno crashod Into a willow blind Into a deep ditch,. Miss qhnratiorlalrt and Mr. .Ellis, . jvtio H woro on tho roar seat, wero abloto throw themselves partly outqf.tho H tar and did not rocotvo tho uij;Wolst H of tho machine. Prof. Morrill, ,)iow- Pf ever and Miss Wlllmoro, woro pinned JH directly bononth tho front part ot the JH PH ActbrdlnK'Mh Ellis, Prof Mor- f. fH 'rllLhadraskcd him to accompany htm, ,., P on" n" Visit' to tho Morrill. farm In D.v H vis county and also 'to Ogdon on vn PH business visit. As they worojeav'lhg pppj Salt Lake, Prof.. Morfltl niSt-'MlUS M Chamberlain with whom he wm'woJI H acquainted. Miss Chamberlain"-' said JJPJ that alio waB going to Ogdon to meet H her friend, Miss Wlllmoro who bad H been visiting in Logan. Slio was In- H (Continued on page five) H Prof. L-rlelM I leeis Tragic Dei I in Auto Accident I (Continued from page ono) jH vlted to ride In Prof. Morrill's c.ir. jH At Ogden, Prof. Morrill ami Mr. H Ellis concluded their bus ncsn nnd J went with Miss Chamberlain to tho jH depot, where sho met Mlrs Vv'lll'noro - and tho party cf four started for Professor Men 111 was born In Rich- H inoiiil, Cache county, Juno S3, IS" I. H After recotlng nn enr'y education In 'H the r.rhool.s cf Richmond ho nttcmled H Brlgham Young Co'.logo from 1SSD to 'H 1891 when he beearao n student nt H tho Utah Agricultural Collego. Ho 'H graduated from that Inttltulou ,ln jH lS9u. He took a post graduato courso iH nt ttic Ohio Stato Collego In 1S9S and M ha. pursued spodnl studies at Ohio ,H stato university In 1901. H Shortly after bolng graduated In IH 1S'J5 ho accepted a position ns In- ;H structor In thu public schools of 'H Richmond and taught thcro during H tho term of 1S95-9G. During tho fall H of 1S9C ho served ns assistant ngri- H culturlst of tho Utah Agricultural Col- H legu. Shortly ho was chosen profos- H sor of ngrlculturo and In April 1899 H ho heenmo assistant professor of ng- H ilculturo nnd veterinary sclcnco. At- H tcr serving In turn ns nsBlstant pro-, H fessor of agronomy nnd veterinary H sclonco ho was elected to a full pro- H rcssorshlp In 1002. M Held Various Positions H Profossor Merrill served as assist- H nnt agriculturist at tho Utah experlj H mont station from July 1, 180G untlL, M July 1,-1900, when ho wns mado ag'i H ronomlst of tho station, which posl-;i H tlon ho filled for flvo years. Ho was H mado professor of animal husbandry H at Brlghnm Young University In 1905 M and served In that capacity until H 1907, when ho was mado superintend- H cut of the agricultural extension do- H partment of tho Utah Agricultural' B College M Funernl sorvlcos for Professor Mer.n H I rill Will bo held at 1 o'clock Thursday M at tho chapol of tho Thirty. Unit ward.,,. M After the services the body will ho H brought to Richmond, Thursday ovn- H nlng whero It will llo in statu nt tho M homo of C. E. Merrill. Short funor- M nl services wll bo hold at Richmond H tabcrnnclc, beginning at 12 m. on M Bishop J. Percy Goddard of 'tho M Thirty-first ward will olllclnlo at'tho H funernl services Thursday. Tho H speakers will bo Governor William M Spry, Dr. John A. Wldtsnc, president M of tho Utah Agricultural Collegoj M President L. N. Stohl of tho board M of trustees of thu Utah Agricultural M Collego; President Hugh J. Cannon U of Liberty stake; Bishop Edwin Si. M Sheets of tho Thirty-third ward and I M Bishop Goddard, M |
