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Show DENKERS OPERATED ON IS IN A SERIOUS CONDITION At a late hour this afternoon Herman Her-man B Denkers, who was injured last evening In a collision with a Southern Pacific train, was in a precarious condition con-dition He had not regained consciousness, con-sciousness, At 11 o'clock an operation was performed per-formed on his head at the hospital, and a small piece of the skull removed. re-moved. It was found that a sharp instrument in-strument of some kind had penetrated the skull and so fractured the bone that there was a heavy pressure on the brain The doctors state that it is impossible impos-sible to say what th6 result of the injuries will be. as it will require a number of hours to determine the effect ef-fect of tho operation. An official investigation Is being held this afternoon by a board of Inquiry consisting of Supt T. F. Rowlands Row-lands of the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific; Supt R. A. Pierco of the Ogden Union Depot & Railway company, and Rev J. E. Carver. According Ac-cording to evidence found during the ! early part of the Investigation, the I front of the engine of train No 2 did I not strike the automobile, but the machine ma-chine was driven into it. striking under un-der the cab. The force of the impact im-pact of the engine and automobile threw the latter against the fence and the driver nearly forty feet away from it oo |