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Show Toboggan Crash Kills One, Injures Three in AF Canyon Tragedy struck suddenly in American Fork Can you at 1:45 p. m. last Sunday afternoon. Gary Steuerwald, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Steuerwald, American Amer-ican Fork is dead andl three others seriously injured due to a toboggan tobog-gan crash. Gary was one of ten passengers who were riding a home-made bob sled when the accident occurred. Swerving to avoid hitting an automobile auto-mobile traveling on the snow-packed Mutual Dell road, the sled went out of control and crashed into a tree. The sledi was equipped with steering- wheel and brakes. Three other persons injured in the crash were still hospitalized Wednesday. They are Men-ill Listen, Lis-ten, 31, Pleasant Grove, broken leg; Max Thornton, 15, American Fork, broken (ribs and Paul Ooon, 15, Provo, broken leg. Four others were given first aid treatment and released to their homes. They are Phillip Thornton, father of Max and two other sans, Duane, 13, and Kenneth 12, and Mark Nielson, 13, American Fork. Two other riders, Richard Coon, 12, brother of Paul, and Richard' Tattersall, American Fork, driver of the sled were not injured. The speed of the sled when it struck the tree was estimated at 70 miles an hour by Highway Patrolman Pat-rolman Nelson B. Evans. |