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Show TAXI S3 UTS STRIKES POLE Machine Carrying 12 From Sanitarium Rolls Over on Street EIGHT AVOID INJURY Police Tracing Source of Liquor Alleged to Have Been Cause I Tour persons were injured at 1:15 o'clock this morning when a Leo ItaXlcab, returning rrom the sanitarium sanita-rium with 12 persons, crashed Into a Lexington touring car operated by ; I'ete Batestas. one or the owners of .the Wistaria, at Twenty-fifth street and Madison aenue. I The taxicab struck the Batestas car with great force, smashed a 13-: 13-: Inch trolley pole and turned over The Injured were taken to the Dee Memorial hospital and attended by J Dr. B. n. Dumke. The injured are: Verva Bachnian, Boise. Idaho Katherlne Kelly, 137 Tracy avenue. Ruth Mendrlck. Thirty-fourth Btreet and Jerrerson avenue Ray Irwin. 2270 Eccles avenue. 1KI ER ARREST n Robert Wheat, the taxicab driver. Is l'i Ing held at the city Jail by the police po-lice who stated this morning that he was under the inriuonce or liquor when he w as dm Ing the car. The left front wheel of the i:a!e-tas i:a!e-tas car was smashed and the bump.-r and render broken. Batestas escaped injury. Others in the taxicab were Dina I Bush. Wilson Lane; Gladys 1 lull. 162 . Thlrty-nrth stieet; ;:.-. dys border. 37 1 Twenty-eighth street; El Chrlstopher- jsnn. 1051 Hudson avenue; James West. I S04I Adams avenue, Arthur Dalton. 'Twenty-eighth street and Monroe avc- nue, and Jack Jessup of Logan ll OR SH ( URg. Batestas was driving south along I Madison avenue and arter the BJOCi-dciit BJOCi-dciit ho told the police that he saw the taxicab coming down Twcnty-rifth Street from th sanitarium. He said that when he saw the car approaching at a terrific speed he Stopped his car. though he had the right-of-way, ghing Wheat, who was driving the taxicab. plenty of room to pass In front of him. The taxicab struck the Batestas car a sideblow, sheering off the hub cap of the left rront wheel and spinning the Batestas car around on Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street. The taxicab then swung to the south side of Twenty-fifth street, and at a point 200 feet south from tho street Intersection struck the guide-wire guide-wire pole that supports the trolley I wire, smashing the 12-inch pole and then turning over TOP SAVES P MGI Ks The top of the car saed the occupants oc-cupants from death according to the police who arrived at the scene a few moments later In answer to a tele- j I phone call ! One feature of the accident Is the! fai t that the taxicab Is the same taxicab that was in a wreck at Boun-tiful Boun-tiful one month ago tomorrow. V. heat admitted that he was turning from th- sanitarium with a load of passengers, but said that he was not breaking any speed laws No charge has been placed against blip pending the outcome of tho injuries in-juries to those at the hospital. They were reported as resting easv todav. probe sot itt i: oi noozi:, Police declare their 'Investigation shjOWed that some of the passengers had been drinking and they were t , Investigate the source of the ihiuoi-. A raid was made at the sanitarium 0 I i Saturday night and Frank Parr WSJI arrested with a pint of liquor alleged ' to have been In his possession. |