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Show Nine Boys Escape With Slight Hurts Nine Milford high school youths miraculously escaped death or serious injury Thursday night of last week on the Granite Pass road east of town. The bridge across the old high line canal near the gravel pit had been burned out and not replaced, it seems, but the boys did not know it, and, as they returned to town at about 11:30 o'clock from a loop trip they had made by way of highway 21, passing pass-ing through Adamsville and Greenville enroute, they cams unto the bridgless canal without any knowledge of its condition. The car, a 1929 Studebaker: owned by the W. D. Stewart family fami-ly of South Milford and driven by one of the Stewart boys, is said to have been traveling at about 35 miles an hour down the grade, the front wheels striking the far. ther side of the canal bank and tipping the car squarely upside down, in which position it skidded down the highway for some distance. dis-tance. 1 Charles AHkin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Atkin, was the worst injured of the group, hving been tiadly cut and bruised about the face and hands and upper part of the body,', while Robert Kinro$e of South Milford suffered painful back bruises. Young Atkin was seated on the lap of one of the boys in the front seat of the car and was thus nearest the front and top of the car as it was flipped flip-ped over. The other seven boys were Junior, Donald and Max Stewart, Earl Jtohrvson, Fremont Johnson, Dern Outzen and Don Sly. All nine of the boys are understood to have been back in school Friday, the seven little the worse forthe accident. v |