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Show Highway Accident Injures Deseret Rancher Lincoln Cropper, Deseret rancher, ranch-er, has been a patient at the Delta hospital since last Thursday night, recovering from injuries received in an automobile upset late Thurs- day. Mr. Cropper has three or more ribs broken on his left side, and his left arm is broken just above the wrist. There was some danger dan-ger of pneumonia to Mr. Cropper since the accident, which has been cleared up, and his condition today to-day was reported as improving. Mr. Cropper and a companion Grant Edwards, had left Delta to drive west to check on the Crop, per cattle. Mr. Cropper struck gravel gra-vel several miles west of Hinckley,, and his car turned over one and a half times. He was knocked unconscious and Mr. Edwards received bruises and lacerations. Mr. Cropper was pinned in the front seat, and to get him out Mr. Edwards used the spare tire to break the back window on the car. He reports that there were no rocks or boulders on highway 6 large enough to smash in a window. win-dow. Help soon came by, from the highway construction crew, and the Nickle ambulance and local doctor went to the scene of the accident. The most irking part of the whole accident to Mr. Cropper is the fact that he had just returned from a trip by Strato-Cruiser to Anchorage, Alaska, with Mrs. Crop per and their son, Vincent, and fast as their trip was he had given his opinion ithat he would travel on the ground. Within the week the ground did him dirt. |
