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Show fllTAL COLLISION fflHD AI SAME SPOT U YEARS 4 mother and her ba.be were killed li the father and four children !jjus)y injured in a collision of an (llto aad a patfsenfrer 'train at Har-ijnear Har-ijnear the Tintic Standard mill, on ie Denver and Rio Grande Eureka ranch, Sunday evening at 6:15 o'clock' THE DEAD: Mrs. Bessie Norman Carlson, 35 Eureka former resident of Mt. Pleas-nt. Pleas-nt. Don Carlson, six months old. THE INJURED. f 7 (Jebe) Carlson, 35, Eureka, ;aSer at the Chief Consolidated mine irartured pelvis i a badly out right itnil Albert Carlson, 13 fractured right ihmlier severely sprained right snide and cuts on the ri,ght hand. Petty Carlson, 11, base of the iiall fractured, fractured nose, a iecp cut above the r'ght eye, a badlv irused upper J; p, a fracture of the right leg above the knee. Eskil Carlson, 8, a compound fra-e-ire of the right arm a fracture of ie right leg below knee. Pora Carlson, 5, 'right leg broken Mow knee, numerous bad brumes ibout the body and the right hand. Riding in a new Sedan the Carlson imily had been at Warm Creek, im-aediately im-aediately south of the Tintic Stand-rd Stand-rd mill, between Santaquin and i-oshen. As Mr. Carlson came to the fi-oad tracks he says, he stopped Jecar. The view of the track to hi? right was obscured by the two box ars used at Harold as the station. Uses Caut'on. "As I stopped I thought to my-slf, my-slf, Here is where Ed. Elliott of Eureka was killed four year? ago :y an approaching train, "said Mr. rarlson as he was lying in the Payson hospital. "I couldn't see ie track and I couldn't hear any train approaching so I shifted 'gear ui started across the track. I kad absolute 1 7 no chance. There m the passenger train iright onto me. We couldn't get away. Just is soon as the front wheele of the suto were across the tracks, the train atruck the car and carried us tor a distance and then shoved the a- down the railroad embankment. Passing motorisits assisted In rush-I'-S the injured father and the five Mdren to the Payson hospital. The Jiother is believed to have been killed kill-ed instantly. She was dead when taken from the car, The :baiby died w the way to the hospital. Drs. Joseph Hughes of Spanish Fork, L. D. Stewart and G. P. Til-son Til-son of Payson arrived at the hospital Portly after the injured had been brought there. Two Other Children. Amor those who assisted in taking tak-ing the injured to the hospital were Mra. J. A. Mc Clellan, Mrs. Hyrum Lemon John Reed, Hilliam Montage tod Alma Partridge of Payson, John tt. Nesbit of Mammoth, Larry Cant-1"1 Cant-1"1 and Harold and J. M. Robins of Santaquin. Two other Ca.rlson children Fran-tls. Fran-tls. 16 and Helen, 14, were in Eureka "the time of the accident. Mrs. Carlson was born March 2 2, ''91, at Mt. Pleasant, the daughter " Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Norman, Her ,athw is employed by the Deseret Livestock company and her mother kas been living In Eureka during the tast year. The Carlson family has keen living in Eureka during the Pa't seven years. Besides her husband and children, lr- Carlson is survived by four sis-lers sis-lers and three brothers, iMrs. John -Anderson, Mrs. P. N. Neilson, and 4'wd Norman, Eureka, Mrs. Heiwy ainter, Nephi, Mrs. August Carlson srbert and Andrew Norman, Mount P1asant. The accident was "investigated by er,ff J. D. Boyd and Deputy Ceoirge slortly after it had occurred, funeral 3ervie.es were held in S"reka Wednesday afternoon for rs- Ptancls z. Carlson and her five mh's old infant son, Don. p the bodies were brought to Mt. 'nt Thursday for burial. rs- Carlson wa3 barn in Mt Pleas-' March 22 1890 and was married Francis, Z. Carlson fin October -The family moved to Mam-orado Mam-orado vrg a aU(J tor Wee W. Means. ihe last five years, they have been ' esidents of Eureka. In addition to her husband and lour .children Albeit, Betty, Eskel, ind Dora, all of whom were seriously njured in the sam-e accident which '-o.st Mrs. Carhon her life she is survived. iby Ik,-, parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Norman of Mt. Pleasant and the following brothers and sisters, Andrew And-rew and Herbet Norman and, Mrs. August Carlson of Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. Nathaniel Nieben, Mrs. John Andersen, Ander-sen, and Edward Norman of Eurek?, tnd Henry Painter of Nephi. |