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Show TRAIN AND AUTO ; CRASIUWO DIE Garfield Car Smashed in Tragic Accident in South Salt Lake SALT LAKE. Mar. 16 Two persons m e dead and two were hurt yesterday ifternoon us the result of a Crasll ' tween Denver & Rio Grande freight train No. 1 ! and an automobile at the Thirty-third South street crossing. The. den ,1 are George Freeman Han sen. 34. sub-foreman nt the Arthur plant, Magna and Mrs. Charles l . English Eng-lish of Garfield. Mr. English was seriously se-riously hurt, hut h.-is a chance of recovery. re-covery. Wllma English, 2 years of age, was uninjured. Her babj brother of 5 months, slightly Injured, was taken from the pilot of the locomotive after the train had stopped. iccefts Hide The body of Mr.-. English was b;idl maimed, the pelvis, the right thigh, the right forearm and all the ribs on tho right side, from the fourth down. being fractured, in addition to whuh she suffered internal injuries. Mr Hansen died of fracture of the skull, Instantly. He was a former ser-VlOe ser-VlOe man, serving as a first -class private pri-vate in F company. Fouthr engineers, taking part in the Mcu.v-Ai goune and St, Mihiel campaigns Later he waa with ihe army of occupation, He enlisted en-listed at Garfield, October 1. 1917. and was discharged August IS. 1919. Ills presence in the English automobile yesterday wius occasioned by his missing miss-ing the train to Salt Lafic and his :ic- coptnnce of an invitation to occupy the back scut, since Mr, r.nd Mrs. English an, their two children were driving Into In-to Salt Lake. ( lt M HI K BHOADS1DK The aUtoniobile was traveling east on Thirty-third South at a moderate sperrl ami was struck by the train WhlCll (Pas traveling north at a speed lot about fifteen miles an hour. The engine struck the car broadside and carried It fully fifty yards before stop- Iplng. Mr. Hansen's body was found lying hi side the tracks about fifty feet Beyond ths wret ked car. J The small baby was lying on the pilot pi-lot ,.t' the lo-, motive crying when the train came to a stop. It la believed that the mother tossed the infant upon the engine :is she flung up her arms when the collision occurred. Statements made by Mr. English before be-fore he lapsed Into Unconsciousness Indicated In-dicated that the occupants of the machine ma-chine did not know that the train was .ippro'aching until they were struck, lie told Deputy Sheriff J Walton, who assisted In the investigation, that his wife was sitting at Jils right, the direction di-rection from which the train was coming, com-ing, and that the curtain on that Bid) was up. Suddenly, he said. Mr. Han-Sen, Han-Sen, who was m fh'- rear seat, cried out. "There's a train"' The crash followed fol-lowed In an Instant, he said. |