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Show I PRICE BANKER 1 FATALLY HURT lames W. Whitmore Dies Following Fol-lowing Collision Between Auto and Train PRICE. Noy. 22 James Montgom-! 617 Whitmore, president of the Flrsl N'ational bank of this rit. was fatal-, ly injured at 2 o'clock yesterday after noon when an eastbound Denver &j Rio Grande train struck ihe automd bile which he was driving Mr. Whlt--i, more was alone in his car when the, accident occurred. It is believed that the engine of the automobile went dead :ts the automobile auto-mobile approached the tracks The auto was carried about 200 feet before the passenger train came to n ,'! stop Mr. Whitmore. who apparently tried tc jump, vis crashed between his car, and the enpine ExamlnatitOD showed that his left s.de had been crushed se verely In !). mishap He lived about an hour after the accident f Vm Mr. Whitmore was lib- son of James Montgomery Whltnmre and Mary Eliz-Jgjrl Eliz-Jgjrl aboth Carter. He was born June 5, Q&j 1855. at Waxahachie, Texas, and came to Utah with hi? parents at an early OrtUI aRe. On December 25. 18S.'. he mar-' ried Hannah Maria Nixon of St.. George, dauRhter of James W. and : , ,' Hannah NLxon, well kibofrri Utah plo j neers Nine children were born to ' '-at them. In 1013 lie was marr.od to Alice '" ftf Darling, who. with eight children by the former marriage, survives him. djaiH He was president of the Wrsl Ni 'K tional bank of Price, x hirli Institution jL he organized. 11 was president f the HP- Price Trading company. one of ti - Hy oldest mercantile organizations in Car 1 Don county He took active part in the first irr. I gallon projects launched In this sc lion of the state and was also exUi) tti Blvel) Identified w itn toe Block grow- iLsiA intr Industry fte was a member ol H Im city council of Price for B number HH of years and for Several years was, wR president of the board ?jnSf Six sons and two daughters surviw, iSB him. B. It McDonald. Junius Leo. Ar RJR thur Lawrence, Verntc Ray, Leland, B George Lacelle. Ida May and Ado flM Shinen. bbbbbbbbbbbI nn |