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Show ' TRIO INJURED NEAR BEAVER IN WRECK Driving at night, plus a horse in the road, equalled a car in the ditch-and ditch-and three people scattered over the countryside, two of them seriously injured. Such, briefly, is the situation situa-tion which confronted Dr. Frank Petty of Cedar City, his son Ancil. who was driving the ill-fated car and Edward V. Reeves who was a passenger. Dr. Frank Petty is a brother of E. A. Petty of Beaver. The accident occurred Sunday night about 7:30 in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of Manderfield as Dr. Petty and his son were returning to Cedar City from a hunting trip in the Sevier Valley. As the driver, Ancil Petty, suddenly sud-denly was confronted with the horse in the road, he swerved quickly, sending the car into the ditch. Dr. Petty was picked up about twenty feet from the car while the passenger, passen-ger, Mr. Reeves, had been thrown thru the top of the car, over the fence and into the nearby field. The driver escaped with little injury. Dr. Petty, s injuries are almost too numerous to mention, but included two broken collar bones, a shoulder blade, seven ribs, two bones in the ankle, and a broken hip. The son procured help from Beaver and Dr. Hopkins rendered first aid while Dr. MacFarland and an ambulance was coming from Cedar City in which the helpless man was placed and carried to the hospital, in Cedar, leaving Beaver about midnight. 1 Edward V. Reeves, to whom Dr. Petty was giving a lift, is domiciled at the Hotel Beaver with an injured spine, head wounds, and numerous I severe bruises. He was on his way from his home in Ohio to begin a stenographic-secretarial job in California Cali-fornia on November 15, before the accident forced him to delay his plans. The car was badly damaged and is now at the local garage for repairs. Latest word from Cedar states that Dr. Petty is holding his own at present with prospects of 4 months to be spent in a cast. |