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Show AUTO ACCIDENTS " TAKE MANY LIVES WESTERN STATES SCENE OF MANY ACCIDENTS; CARELESSNESS CARELESS-NESS ADDS TO LIST Train Smahes Car at Crossing Killing All Occupants; High School Students Among The Dead San Francisco. Fifteen persons were killed last Sunday in automobile accidents in California and Washington. Washing-ton. Four men in an automobile rode onto the grade crossing of the Sacramento Sac-ramento Northern Electric line, at Del Paso, near Sacramento. The machine was rammed by a northbound train, killing- the occupants of the car. They were Matt, Sabich, driver; Marion Mar-ion Sabich, John Puliz, and M. Bitan-ga, Bitan-ga, all of Sacramento. At Los Angeles, three women were killed and ten other persons, including includ-ing five children, were seriously injured. in-jured. Mrs. W. F. Jamieson, wife of a physician, and the mother of Dr. W. F. Jamieson were killed when a Pacific Electric train struck their automobile at a crossing west of there. Mrs. Sakiki Urushibata, 29, was crushed to death when she was pinned beneath her overturned automobile. auto-mobile. Walter Cummings, 15, was killed and his brother, Andrew Cummings, was injured when they were struck by an unknown autoist, who hit the youth on their bicycles near Reed-ley, Reed-ley, thirty miles south of Fresno. The autoist fled and the dead and injured in-jured youths were picked up by passing pass-ing motorists. An unidentified man was fatally injured in-jured in Oakland, and M. C. Morgan was held by the police when a witness wit-ness said the automobile ho was driving driv-ing struck the man. Three high school students returning return-ing from a basketball game early in the morning were killed at a grade crossing at Prosser, Wash., when their automobile was struck by an eastbound Northern Pacific train. The dead: Marie Miles, 18; Dorothy Wilson, 17, and George Joensuu, 18. An automobile driven by John A. Peterson, Seattle insurance man, and occupied also by Mrs. Peterson and her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Fich, Tokdo, 0., plunged off a trestle into Elliott bay, drowning all three. Ice on a mountain trail near Ontario, On-tario, Cal., caused Albert Sweeney, 16, to slip and fall 20 feet to the floor of Icehouse canyon. He died of a broken back. Near Nome, Alaska, a trapper and his son were frozen to death according accord-ing to word Cape Thompson. |