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Show M. A. KEETER KILLED DUNG -CIRCUS PARADE ON 23RD STREET Horses He Is Driving Frighten at Elephants and Make a Wild Dash Wagon Collides With Automobile and Driver Is Thrown to Ground Ribs Crushed In and Death Results. M. A. Keeter, of 227 West Patterson avenue, a teamster employed by the Weber Lumber company, died at the Dee hospital at 12:55 p. m. today from injuries received in a runaway accident acci-dent about two hours earlier. He was thrown from a loaded lumber wagon, when his frigtened team crashed Into an automobile, at the corner of Twenty-third street and Wal avenue. He was Immediately taken to tho hospital and an examination by Dr. E. I. Rich showed that his ribs had been crushed against his heart. According to witnesses of the accident, acci-dent, Its unfortunate victim had turned turn-ed his team west on Twenty-third street from Lincoln avenue just before be-fore the elephants in the parade of the Robinson circus reached that point and had gono only a short distance when his horses caught sight of the pachyderms and became 'frightened. The animals dashed wildly down the road, but by dint of hard pulling and coo) headedncss, the driver kept them and the long lumber wagon from crashing into automobiles tilled with people viewing the parade, until the outfit neared Wall avenue. Just opposite op-posite the north entrance to the John Scowcroft and Sons Company's main building, the horses swerved, throwing a front wheel of the wagon against the rear of an automobile belonging to Henry Gwijliams. ' The collision threw Keeter to the ground with great force and ho was picked up In an almost unconscious condition. A rear wheel of the automobile auto-mobile was torn from the axlo. Mr Gwilliams, who was in the car with his young son, seeing that a collision was inevitable, seized the babe and jumped from the car to a place of The' runaway created great excitement, excite-ment, due to the narrow escape of many women and children, who had gathered In the vicinity to view the parade. Mr. Keeter was formerly employed by the George A. Lowo Company and lastyear managed the Galco baseball team of the city league. He was best known to his friends as "Mack" and was well liked by ail. He was born in Ogden, August 1, 1892, the son of Otto and Lecy Dennis Keeter, and is survived by his wife, two children, Lorene and Leah, his parents and six brothers, Oscar, Fred, Clarence, Howard, How-ard, Clifford and Otto, all of .Ogden The body was removed to the Lark-in Lark-in and Sons mortuary and the funeral announcements will be made later. |