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Show ONLY Oi HURT III AUTO ACCIDENT! i Salt Lake. u 15. Superintendent J. W. Roifers of the Rot ky Mountain division divi-sion of tho American Bxpress company and four friends narrowly escaped serious seri-ous injury when an automobile In wh'k-h thr- five were driving rr ih,. higblluc boulevard capsized at Dugwuy canyon iesterday afternoon. Only the top of the car saved the members mem-bers of the iart) c f Masser, traveling travel-ing agent of th- i-omp.iuy from Poca-tello Poca-tello suffered a severe sprain to one of his shoulders and was taken to the liolv Cross hospital f.u surgical attention. The others e.s. aped with minor bruises. The) wire A R McPherson and J. K. fierce, visiting employees of the express company com-pany and L C Rush, chief clerk under Mr. Rogers Learning ..f the accident, S M. Taylor, who was In attendance at a burial at the City cemetery, sent an automobile driven by Ray Glazier iu the assistance of those in the wrecked machine Tehv were all brought to the city, and later Mr Rogers returned with another car and towed his machine in. Mt Rogers said la.st night that at the time of the accident he was driving slowly, slow-ly, both because of the sharp turn in the dngway and In order that the visitors might the better enjoj the view. Attempting At-tempting to round the turn. Mr Raw rt ' discovered that his , :,t H;is skidding and ! the next minutr it sliding down the hillside and turned over Due to the slow speed of the car. the accident did not catch the occupants entirely en-tirely unprepared, or more seriOUS injuries in-juries to some of them might have resulted re-sulted in aity event, according to Mr Rogers. It would have been much the worse for them If ihe top of th. csj had not taken the brunt of the damage |