Show adamsville Adams ville youth dies in truck auto crash on tuesday aftem afternoon oon of last week paul griffiths jr 16 year old son oi of mr and mrs paul griffiths of adamsville Adams ville was instantly killed when the car he was driving from to greenville crashed headon head on into a truck owned by 1 I E toddle riddle of cedar city caty and driven by I 1 nathan benson of the same place the truck was capsized and the griffiths car demolished young griffiths neck was broken his chest crushed in n and his legs both broken and lacerated benson driver of the truck was badly dazed and it took him quite awhile to extricate himself from the cab of the truck he escaped without serious injury the griffiths lad left adamsville Adams ville in the near wake of ano another ther car occupied by two of his buddies gayland heppler and garth bakes about his age the road is and was very dry and dusty so that the leading car tilled filled the air with a dust cloud which d destroyed es troyed visibility vis ability the drivers of the colliding vehicles approaching apro aching from the opposite directions through the dust did not see each other in time to avert the celision col ision merchandise from the capsized truck was strewn all over the roadside the accident occurred about two miles west of greenville beaver press the boy was a grandson of mrs clista davis who has resided here for the past year and had just gone to her home in california and had to return for the funeral several people went over to beaver for the funeral on saturday afternoon ter noon among them were clara benson and her daughters neta benson and barbara burt zella orton and her aughter in law glenns orton marlo To pharn cla clarence ence and donald pendleton mr and mrs 0 liver phillips and mr and mrs hubert jackson and mrs mary alary pendleton the latter being the decease eds great grandmother |