Show gas truck totally demolished by fire monday alond ay night about 1130 P in a utah oil truck headed southward mouths aid on highway 80 89 turned over and was demolished by fire the driver samuel carter Is from salt lake city although he was formerly a resident of lie he told officials that lie had had a short lit in his electrical wiring system several days dais before the accident and that at the time of the accident his lights went vent out causing him to vear tear off the road As tile the truck with a full loail load of g gasoline abol a board aboard trashed crashed ahne through lt the gird g ard rail uie the spot light came but it was too late to ge truck under control the ti i ad trailer turned e d over call 1 a fire to start under the dashboard and soon it was everywhere mr carter caller is ia re le ported to have kicked his way on out t of the windshield in time dale to be many feet away when the gas exploded the fire was completely out of hand when the firemen from panguitch arrived arr led consequently there was no stopping the complete demolition of tile the truck the tiro fire blazed fiercely and the 1 reddish hue seemed to cover coer part 0 of f the sky at eleven tuesday morning the tire fire was still shouldering ing and smoking mr carter was taken to hen ille by a passerby passer by shortly after the accident occurred lie he suffered no serious injury and was os on hand to answer questions tuesday morning garfield Gartl eld county news |