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Show KILLING- CHILDREN AT PLAY. ;j I- A little boy, 10 rears old, playing in the streets of Salt Lake last night, was strnck by an automobile and so badly crushed that recovery is doubtful. Those "who saw the accident state that the driver of the machine was not to blame. But, however this may be, this is another warning warn-ing to all auto drivers and to motormen on street car to proceed I cautiously and with their cars under absolute control in the pres- M ence of children. Little ones at play are erratic in their movements. ( Darting in and out. they arc on the sidewalks one moment and the next they arc in the path of the grinding, crushing wheels. M We nave seen chauffeurs send their machines past children at play at a rate of speed that meant death, if at child moved unex-m unex-m pectedly in the wrong direction. Had one of the little fellows - stepped into the road, the driver would have pleaded that the child H was responsible. By the way, wc suggested, at the time of a fatal accident on Lincoln avenue, that every trolley car operating within the city be equipped with fenders. "Would it not be worth while to have . fl automobiles provided with some such safety appliance, so that ! fl when an accident is impending and a life is in peril, instead of the ' .wheels crushing and mangling, the tragedy may be averted? $ |