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Show Smithfield Woman Killed Instantly In Accident Mrs. Inez McCracken Struck While Crossing Street Mrs. Inez Hillyard McCracken, 54, lifelong resident of Smithfield, was killed instantly Thursday at 7:50 p. m. when she was struck by an automobile while crossing Main street in Smithfield at First South street. It was the first fatal traffic accident in Cache county this year. Mrs. McCracken was struck on the icy, foggy street, by an automobile auto-mobile driven south by Merrill T. Murray, 29 of Richmond, according accord-ing to the report of Roland Reese and Ed Pitcher, state highway patrolmen, who investigated. Mr. . Murray told officers that he first saw the victim a short distance ahead of him walking diagonally across the street, en route to her home. She was car- rying a bundle of groceries. He said he sounded the horn but she apparently did not heed the warning and tried to make it across the street before the car passed. She was struck by the left front fender of the automobile as the driver swerved to the right attempting to avoid a collision. Mrs. McCracken apparently was killed instantly, when her head was crushed. The body, although quite badly battered, was lying only a short distance from the car. Mr. Murray said he was en route to Logan to attend the state guard unit drill. Accom- pany him were Charles L. Peart, 36, Dean Andrus, 33, A. J. Men-denhall, Men-denhall, 31, and his son, James Mendenhall, 8, all of Richmond. Mrs. McCracken was born in Smithfield in 1899, a daughter of John and Mary Merrill Hillyard, and had resided in Smithfield all her life where she helped operate the McCracken inn. She was married to Henry McCracken in the Logan Temple. Surviving are five sons, H. W. McCracken of Salt Lake City; Cecil and Kedrick McCracken of Smithfield; Private Luther S. McCracken, who is a patient at Bushnell General hospital in Brig-ham Brig-ham City, and Private Ned R. McCracken, serving with the U. S. army in Sicily, and three sisters. sist-ers. Mrs. Venice Learold, Mrs. Mable Secrist, and Mrs. Ethel Conant, of Twin Falls, Idaho. Mrs. McCracken's mother, Mrs. Mary Theresa Hillyard, died on January 9th in Twin Falls, Idaho. Funeral services will be announced an-nounced by the Kenneth Lindquist mortuary of Logan. |