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Show Gardner closed his eyes to shut out the sight and in doing so the car ran past where the impact came and hit a tree. This coul.i have been avoided Mr. Gardner says had he not closed his eyes. Mrs. Gardner who had risen from the seat at the time of the accident and endeavored to open the door was thrown out when the car struck the tree, lighting on her back with her infant in ier arms. The baby was unhurt mt she was thrown against the im of the wind shield, cutting .i bi'd gash in her upper lip. The ;hock she received from the accident ac-cident and from being thrown left Mrs. Gardner in a precarious condition for several days and for a time her life hung in a balance- She has ralliec and is much better now, however. The car was so near a standstill at the time it struck the tree thai none of the other occupants were thrown out nor injured, and the car itself was injured but slightly. slight-ly. Mr. Gardner is a careful driver driv-er and thinks the world of child-rjn, child-rjn, and no blame is placed to him for the sad accident. He, a do Mr. and Mrs. Bliss have the sympathy of every one in the valley. Mr. Bliss tells us that the probable prob-able way the accident happened was fron the fact that the little boy, who was left deaf from an operation he underwent when he was five, did not hear the car and failed to note by the action of the other boys that it was coming. com-ing. At the same time there is a warning in this sad accident to all boys who may try to annoy an auto which is traveling along the road: Mr. Gardner says that there are boys in this vicinity vicin-ity who, when they see a car coming, will sometimes threw sticks and other things in the road in front of it. He thot, when be saw the hoop roll into the road, that this was a prank. Such actions, boys, are liable at any time to cause accidents by the driver of a car being mislead. mis-lead. Don't do it any more. Bliss Boy Killed By Automobile We are called on: to chronicle a very sad accident which happened happen-ed in our community Thursday of last week and which resulted in the death of Mr. and Mrs.' Albert Bliss' little 12-year-old boy and narrow escape of Mrs. Wm. N. Gardner from death. Mr. Gardner and his family were returning to Deseret ai 5:30 in the afternoon from the meeting in Oak Creek canyon. They were going to Deseret for the purpose of getting Mr. Gardner's Gard-ner's picture machine and returning return-ing to Delta to put on the regular reg-ular Thursday evening play. The accident occurred just west of the river bridge on the road south of the Deseret flour mill and in front of Mr. Bliss, farm home. After crossing the bridge Mr.' Gardner followed a team up with his auto for a short distance and then pulled around them, going about fifteen miles an hour. There were three of the little boys in the road at the time of the accident. Two of them on the right side of the road and one on the left side. Mr. Gardner saw the little boys on the right side draw back and wave as tho for a signal for him to go by But when he was within a very short distance of being opposite the boys, the little fellow on the left side rolled rol-led a hoop out into the middle of the road and dashed after it. The distance between the boy and the auto was too short for Mr. Gardner to stop the car, to turn to the right endangered the other boys, and, altho Mr. Gardner Gard-ner had his wife with her baby in her arms by his side, and his other three children in the rear of the auto, -he took the only other means of saving the boy at the risk of his own and family's lives and turned the car into a ditch running along the road. The boy, when he saw the predicament pre-dicament he was in and the car coming toward him, instead of continuing accross the road retreated re-treated in the same direction Mr. Gardner had turned the machine By that time the car was upon the boy and there was no time left for either to change directions direc-tions and avoid the accident. The right wheel of the car struck the boy in the chest and caused contusion of the lungs from which he died five and one-half one-half hours later. When the boy was struck Mr. |