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Show Young Girl Killed In River Bridge Accident A young girl was killed instantly and three other young people injured in-jured Saturday shortly after midnight, mid-night, when the automobile in which they were riding plunged off the Jordan River bridge into the water. Miss Bardina Johns, 16, of 209 West, Thirty-third South, Salt Lake City, was the girl instantly killed, a two-by 4 piece of timber, about 4 feet long piercing her body just below be-low the heart, just before the automobile auto-mobile plunged through the bridge. The car struck the wood railing leading to the bridge before plunging plung-ing into the water and a splinter from this railing pierced the girl's body. Her companions, Vance Wood, 18, of Midvale, driver of the car, suffered suf-fered severe cuts about his head and face; Miss Betty Smyckle, 18, Mid-vale, Mid-vale, suffered bad cuts on both her legs and on her left arm and bad body bruises and Ricy Jones, 18, also of Midvale, escaped with minor scratches and bruises. The four young people were returning re-turning home after attending the regular Saturday night dance at Saratoga. They had planned to meet four other friends in West Jordan. Young Wood, the driver, told officers of-ficers that as he neared the bridge, his steering wheel failed and when he could see that the crash was coming he threw open the door. When the car plunged, Wood and Miss Smyckle were thrown clear of the car into the water. Miss Johns and Jones were submerged with the car. Jones reported that after a desperate des-perate struggle he at last freed himself him-self from the car and then dived back into the water in an attempt to extricate Miss Johns, but her body was pinned in the car and he was unsuccessful. Winston Christiansen Chris-tiansen and Ralph Donley, Salt Lake City, who were camping nearby, near-by, came to their assistance on hearing the crash and struggled to rescue the girl. Other help was summoned and a number of Lehi boys and men assisted in getting the victim from the water. It was necessary to overturn the car, before the body could be removed re-moved from the water. Miss Johns was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cameron Johns. She was born in Lancashire, England, Eng-land, December 20, 1920, and came to this country with her parents in 1923. She was graduated from the Blaine Junior high school last spring and was a member of the Miller L. D. S. ward. Her parents, a sister, Onida, and a brother, Alfred C. Johns, both of Salt Lake City, survive her. City Marshal Niron Fowler and Deputy Sheriffs John S. Evans and Walter Durrant investigated the accident. |