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Show Driver of Auto Killed and Four Girls are Injured in Accident THE DEAD -AMOS FRANK WORK, for- 4- mer partner of John Gustason in the Marlon Bar. THE INJURED Marie Harrison, 2681 Lincoln 4- avenue, both arms broken. Margaret Harrison, 2681 Lin- 4- coin avenue, scratched and 4- bruised. 4- Ruth and Mildred Burklund, 4- 170 Twenty-sevcnth street, 4- 4- scratched and bruised. 4- 4- Catherine Kelllher, 164Twen- 4- ty-seventh street. scratched 4- 4- and bruised. 4- Amos Frank Work, a well known local business man, was killed and five young ladies of Ogden, Marie Harrison, aged 19; Margaret Harrison, Harri-son, aged 24; Mildred Burklund, aged 16; Ruth Berklund, aged 19, and Catherine Kelllher, aged 16, were Injured In-jured about 7:30 o'clock last night, when Work's automobile, In which they were riding, crashed through a barbed wire fence, struck a ditch and turned turtle In a meadow off the state highway, near Sunset station on the Bamberger line. Work, who was driving the car, lived only a couple of minutes after ho was pinned beneath It, Marie Harrison Har-rison had both arms broken below the elbows and the other girls were scratched and bruised to a considerable consider-able extent. The point at which the accident oc- curred Is about seven miles south of Ogdon and the screams of the girls attracted the attention of Judge and Mrs. J. A .Howell. District Attorney and Mrs. John C. Davis and Judge N. J. Harris, who were busy repairing an automobile tire a few rods from where Work's automobile left the road. They rushed to the scene and. while Judge Harris and Attorney Davis Da-vis raised the wrecked automobile. Judge Howell, Mrs. Howell and Mrs. Davis pulled its unfortunate driver and Margaret Harrison from beneath It. The other four girls had been thrown clear of It, Into the meadow. Worked gasped once or twice and died immediately after he had been extricated from his position underneath under-neath the steering gear of the automobile. automo-bile. Miss Harrison, with the exception of a bruised nose, was 'found to be uninjured . The other girls were quickly located and news of the accident ac-cident was telephoned to Ogde'n from a nearby residence. City Physician W. E. Whalen and Detective Captain Robert Burk of the Ogden police department de-partment answered the call and arriv-idng arriv-idng at the scene shortly afterward, the doctor ascertained that Work was dead and Marie Harrison seriously in jured. The girls were placed iu the automobiles of Captain Burk and Dr. Whalen and brought to Ogden, They are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. James Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Burklund and Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Kel-liher, Kel-liher, neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Work. Mrs. Work stated last night that she knew they had gone riding with her husband as he told her that they had often asked him for the treat of a ride in his car and he had decided to take them for a spin on the state highway. The party left the city about 7 o'clock and, according to the girls, Air. Work drove the car at a moderate rate of speed. Just before the accident occurred, they said, Work seemed to lose control of tho steering wheel and the automobile suddenly turned off the road, crashed through a fence, struck a ditch and turned over, end for end. According to District Attorney Davis, Da-vis, who witnessed the accident, his party had started for Kaysville, to attend a political meeting. About a half mile from Sunset station, something some-thing went wrong with the automobile automo-bile and they stopped to repair it. As Davis stepped out, another automobile automo-bile approached and he noticed that Its lights darted about as though It was zlg-zagglng across tho road. Suddenly, Sud-denly, he saw It dash off the road and through the fence. After they had rendered all possible possi-ble assistance to the victims of the accident, Judges Howoll and Harris continued on to Kaysvlllo. while Mr. Davis remained to await the arrival of Dr. Whalen from Ogden. The body of Mr. Work was brought to Ogden by Larkln & Sons., undertakers, under-takers, but was later given Into tho charge of Undertaker P. F. Klrken-dall. Klrken-dall. The dead man was 48 years of age, having been born In Iowa in 1868. For several years, ho owned the principal interest in the Marion Bar, but sold out to his partner, John Gustason about six weeks ago. Since then he had been buying and selling horses. Ho Is survived by his wife, who recently re-cently returned from Idaho, where she visited her parents. |
