Show CAR CAPSIZED INTO ROCK POINT CANAL DROWNS WOMAN while learning learma ito 0 drive new car james barger meets sudden death near vernal tuesday mrs james barger 42 leafs year s of age was drowned tuesday evening about 43 in the rock pont point canal i tat at a point four miles north of vernal recently her husband disposed of his ranch and three days ago he bought a touring car tuesday afternoon he and ills his wife went out driving and while traveling west on the road skirting the rock point canal mrs barger was oft et the wheel learning to drive the car just before the car reached a small knoll in the road she attempted to turn around lost control and drove the car over a six foot embankment into the canal the machine turned over in four fee feet or of swift running water and pinned mrs barger in such a manner that her entire body was submerged mr barger extricated himself from beneath the car but was unable to release his wife while the accident occurred close to several houses some time elapsed before help could be as all the men ol of the households were out in the fields when the car was finally turned over and the body of mrs airs barger taken from the water life was extinct and all efforts at resuscitation were in vain As soon as possible a physician arrived on the scene of the tragedy but nothing could be done mr air and mrs barger resided two and one halt half miles southeast of vernal mrs barger is survived by her husband and six children the youngest five years old and by her mother who Is a resident of grand junction colorado |