Uintah Basin Standard | 1958-01-23 | Page 3 | Violent Deaths in Duchesne County Reached 5 in 1957

I Violent deaths in Duchesne county Reached 5 in 1957 Only five violent deaths were re- corded In Duchesne County during s according to Lorin These were three fic fatalities and two Six violent deaths were reported t in this county in ji 1 During the were both in the Strawberry River west I I of A little Duchesne girl A stepped to her death through a hole in the ice on the river and a I young man from I dived to his while swimming I t with a group of friends and Duchesne County's first traffic i fatality last year was old I Robert Blohm of Heber who I was fatally injured as two pickups I collided miles west of Du-f chesne on Highway 40 on May I A two-car on July near resulted in the I death of a young girl from Her mother was driver of the Kleber Houtz of Roosevelt was the third traffic He was killed in a pickup-car collision near his home on There were no suicides reported i in the county during Violent deaths during 1956 two t three highway and one i The past deer in chesne one severe injury V was and one man died i of a heart attack while A Salt City Roger was hit in the upper left arm by a stray which penetrated J his chest and collapsed his left lung while hunting in the Rock Creek A Talmage John M. died from a heart at- tack while hunting with his