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Show Howell Davis ; Injured In Truck Accident Howell Davis is in the L. D. S- hospital, hos-pital, Salt Lake, suffering from injuries in-juries sustained in an automobile accident which occured on the state highway at Crescent last Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Mr. Davis employed by Corlesson & McCoard Co., drives one of the large tank trucks, and was bringing 2400 gallons gal-lons of gasoline from Salt Lake-Ahead Lake-Ahead of him was a half ton truck the driver of which started a left turn. Either realizing that he couldn't could-n't make the turn in time or because be-cause he killed the engine of the car, he stopped suddenly. Davis, toj avoid a direct crash into the smaller ' machine, swerved his truck off thej highway and tipped completely over. I The cab of the gas truck was so j badly mashed, and Davis cramped! in such small space that the two men in the Ford truck who rushed to give immediate assistance were unable to extricate him. Men from the state highway truck who were working nearby, rendered aid and Davis was taken at once to the Mid-vale Mid-vale hospital where he was examined exam-ined and later in the evening removed re-moved to the Salt Lake hospital. His injuries so far as can be ascertained now consisted mainly of crushed ribs- He is in considerable pain but doing as well as can be expected. Those who saw the truck after the accident wonder how Davis ever came out alive. The cab was telescoped, tele-scoped, the engine smashed, and the machine practically demolished. In order to allay fears of passing motorists mot-orists because of the large amount of gasoline, a quick sale of the load was affected to all motorists who came along. |
