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Show ' One Killed, 2 Hurt in Pigeon Hollow Accident Evans Justesen Instantly Killed As Truck Rolls Off The Road Elliott Watson and Harold Mickel, of Spring City, Are Eeverly Injured. 10 Head of Sheep Are Killed Utah's first automlobile fUty..-cf fUty..-cf 1938 was recorded in Sanpete county Tuesday night when Evans Justesen, 27, of Spring City, was crushed to death under a sheep evuek which overturned near a curve at Pigeon Hollow, south, of Spring City. Justesen had his neck broken and also a f actured skull. The death was the first In Utah traffic since Joseph Moser, 1, o-jrn, o-jrn, died on December 31, bringing !ast year's total to the new all-time all-time high mark of 207. The t-uck overturned five times after leaving the highway, apparently appar-ently throwing Justesen from the cab. He was crushed under the hea.vy truck as it came to rest in a deep ditch. Two companions, Elliott Wt.lson, owner of the truck, and Harold Mickel, both residents of Spring City, were injured. Elliott Watson -suered a compound fracture of the left ankle, and Harold Mickel's light wrist and nose were broken, both suffered severe cuts and bruises. Watson apparently was driver of the loaded truck, which was 'hauling 'haul-ing sheep from Spring City to the Justesen ranch. He and Mickel vcrnained In the c.b as it carcen- M o'T V:". rnqH 100 ari rd ; plunged into the ditch. Sheep were strewn along the side of the read and ten of them killed. Mr. Justesen was taking the sheep from one herd to another fleck he was tending south of Spring City on the Stone Quarry hills. Watson, a son of W. E. Watson, and Mickel, son of Mrs. Nena Mickel of Spring City, were treated treat-ed by an Ephraim. physician. Evans Justesen was born In Spring City, July 10, 1910, a son of John S. and Lola Allred Justesen and had lived there all his life. Surviving are seven sisters: Miss Winona Justesen, Spring City; Mrs. W. F. Anderson, Salt Lake Ciyt; Mrs. C. S. Robinson and Mrs. Fergus Thompson, Bingham; Mrs. Sheldon Monsen, Mt. Pleasant; M"s. Rulon Peterson, Kamas; and Mrs. W. E. Smith, Vancouver, Washington. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p. m. in the Spring City L. D. S. ward chapel. Interment Inter-ment will be in the Spring City cemetery under direction of tht Olsen Mortuary of Ephraim. |