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Show CHILD KILLED BY i ACCIDENT WHILE cousin Salt lake, Jan. 16. Death coasted with the youngsters in Salt Lake City again last night, and a shadow hangs over the neighborhood of Second North street. Elizabeth Jensen, 18 years of age, one of a crowd of merrymakers who were enjoying the sport on the Sec-end Sec-end North hill, was almost instantly killed at 9:30 o'clock last night, and several of her playmates were more or less seriously injured. The girl lived w ith her mother at 301 Almond avenue. The little Jensen girl, along with about a score of children of her own age, spent the evening on the unusually un-usually steep slope of Second North street, riding down the glazed Incline In-cline on small sleds. The girl made the rifle which ended In her death, oil a Klr-fl rnvnoH nnH fleered hv Wal lace Dingman, 15 years of age. son of .Mr and Mrs William Dingman of 44 North First West street. Dingman and the Jensen girl were the only occupants of the sled, which crashed into a telephone pole near the intersection of Second North and First W est streets The Dingman boy, who was rendered ren-dered unconscious, was unable to talk Intelligently following the accident, but several other young boys and girls In the crowd admitted that a few of their number, including Dingman. Ding-man. were performing the daredevil trick ol seeing how closely they could shave the telephone poles without hittlns them with their sleds. A. row of poles occupies the middle of Second North street. A second sled followed closely In the wake of the one which ran into the poles. It was occupied by Russell Brickson, 14. of 55 West Second North street; Blanche Worthen, 14. of .Til Almond avenue, and Vein Belcher, 13, of .'In'" Almond avenue. This sled ran into young Dingman, who lay prostrate pros-trate ID the street following the crash into the telephone pole. It was over turned, and the riders were spilled out upon the ground, though none of them sustained serious injuries. Miss Belcher's right leg was badly sprained, and it was thought for a time that the bones had been fractured. The Worthen girl was severely bruised aboul the head and body and her clothing practically torn off. The BrlcksoD boy. seeing that a collision with the body of young Dingman was Inevitable, had rolled off He was un hurt. Neighbors, hearing the frightened screams of children, who had witnessed wit-nessed the accident, ran to the scene and carried the little Jensen girl Into a near-by house. She was bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth, and her face was frightfully dlsfig ured A call was sent to police headquarters. head-quarters. Patrolmen Henry Calton and () C Brown responding. The seriousness serious-ness of the accident was immediately telephoned to headquarters by Calton and Dr. (Jeorge F. Roberts, the first physician to be readied, rushed to the scene. In the meantime Dr Ross Anderson, who had been summoned, had arrived and gave his first attention atten-tion to the Jensen girl. She died within with-in a lew minutes after his arrival. |