The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-10
;L|P-FLOPS DONE
/ BY AN AUTOMOBILE
}ig Machine Containing Five
Persons Plunges Seventy
Feet Down Canyon.
Escape FROM DEATH
ALMOST MIRACULOUS
'assengers Are ALL Painfully
Bruised, but None Fatally
Hurt.

~ A near.miracle in automobllIng took
s.1ace Sunday afternoon about o clock
,lIn the dugway leading into the mouth
1>f Parley's canyon, when Royal Tour
d car belonging to Arnold & Co. con
aiming five passengers and running at
he rate of twenty five miles an hour,
hot over the edge of the roadway
.nmbled seventy feet TO the bottom OF
rhe canyon, rolling completelY. over
ahree times and alighting right side up,
Vsithout either killing or seriously IN
n,ring anv of the occupants.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Bovejoy and Mr..
nd Mrs. William Crooks, all visiting
his city. and Carl Larson, chauffeur
re the members of the party who so
arrowly escaped death. Each, how
YER, sustained severe bruises. Mr..
.ovejoy was the most seriously injured.
Then he was removed to the Holy Cross
5Iospital il was found that his night
loot was broken in two places and that
lis back had sustained a severe
j rrench. The broken bones were set IN
pIaster cast and Mr.. Lovejoy removed
his room at 339 South State street.
A deep cash four inches long was the
xfent of the injuries sustained by Mrs
hooks. She is at the Holy Cross hos
ital. During the fall Mr.. Crooks WIS
truck upon the top of the head and
eep scalp wound inflicted. Chauffeur
arson was severely shaken up aud bad
p bruised. Mrs. Lovejoy, who was
Iaken from under the machine at the
ottom of the incline, was the least IN,
pred of the party. She sustained
-otbing more serious than slight
ruise upon the ankle.
Taking Canyon Trip,
n The party left for the canyon early
M the afternoon aud the journey was
|7ithout incident until on the home trip
N moment after the old Dudler road
sousc had been passed and while the
,achinc was travelling at the rate of
Twenty-Five miles an hour. with sharp
nrve in the dugwaY looming mp in
.ront, the chauffeur heard ono of the
b1nale occupants Of the car scream. He
(lrped his head 10 ascertain what the
Eouble was just as the curve IN the
from the road. struck rock and, as
ne passengers expressed themselves last
Ifght, .'seemed to fly into the air' and
'fcnt over the embankment. throwing
|he occupants out as it rolled over and
liver until when level ground was
eached, none but Mrs. Lovcioy was
-ith the machine. \ crowd of passers
v Immediately gathered and lent their
lid 10 the injured parties. who were car
led TO the old roadhouse.
A number of the injured were brought
p the city in the automobile Of A. NJ
sfrench. who was on the scene shortly
Sfter the accident. \ passing surrey
sas taken into commission and the
S.lt
She machine is wreck in the bottom
tf the canyon.
When interviewed last night at his
pom, Mr.. Lo 10Y said:
Talks of Experience.
d " Although ] don't expect to get
Bround for the next six months,
ayen t a thing to complain Of and I
San I exactly understand even now how
n was that the entire party was not
fiiled. We all spilled out as the car
Jas rolling rapidly down the embank,
gent, and 1T was by the very merest
fbapce that no one was caught under
%he heavy machine, as the whole thing
ccurred so quickly that I didn I know
nuch OF anything until ] found myself
Eing upon the clay bank all torn TO
.icces-that s the way it felt"
\ Mrs. LoVcjoy considers herself the
Jerome or the day. She said that she
<cpt her head all the time. aud when
2he rest were stretched ont upon the
aaDk- some of them unconscious. she
trougbt water from a nearby tank and
prinkled their faces. When she felt
nc car going over the cmbankmeut, she
fld, she crouchcd and chung to the bot
|pm until the machine made almost the
.8st bound. when she was dislodecd and
1hrOwn TO the ground, where the ma
Thine an insant later came to q stand.
till full over her. but not touching her.
4 Mrs. Crooks expects 10 leave the hos
Sital today when Mr.. Loveiov will re-
31rn TO that place for treatment.