The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-09-22
CEMENT TRUCK
FALLS DOWN BANK
MRS. wM. KILLORN - CAUGHT
UNDER MACHINE AND KILLED
OTHERS INJURED.

| Mrs. William Killorn of Salmon
was fatally injured in an accident
on the Salmon river on Wednesday
last The fatality resulted from the
{oyertuining Of a Quad truck which
her husband was driving. Ii was
heavily laden with cement.
! On the way up 10 the road camp
at Cleghorp hiIl Mr. kiliorn. riding
with his wife from their Salmon home
naa picked up her sister, Mrs. Bert
Bates, and little daughter at the Bates
ranch, formerly the Lambeth ranch.
IIhe truck was proceeding on its way
to gave the ladies and the child q
iide 70 the camp and back 10 the
Bates home, where Mrs. Killorn was
visiting. When nearing tile camp thu,
( Ifnghttul accident happened. Besides
the fatality Mr. killorn was stunned.
while Mrs. Bates was badly bruised
as we'll As sustaining severe scaln
wounds. Her little child had d leg
broken above the knee.
The place in the road where the
truck took its plunge is the scene of
an old MI with eribbing underneath
that gave way under the heavy
weight. IL seems that the driver was
turning sharply to avoid the danger
when the hind wheels OF the Quad,
according 10 its mechanism, at the
same time turned out upon the cribb-
ing, with the result that the rear
gears sank and pulled the machine
down the bank. II turned over two or
three times. The place is known as the
Red Butte.
At the bottom Il ditch. Mr.. Kill
orn was caught under the radiator
ana crushed about the heart The ear
mad turned over after crushing her
chest. The little girl and her mother
we're thrown clear as was also the
driver. Mrs. Bates sustained numer
Gus bruises, however, and the little
girl, having many bags Of cement
cast upon her body, was nearly smoth-
cred AZ well as having leg broken.
She was in fact entirely covered up
by the heavy Sacks. AS soon as he
found Mrs. killorn was beyond human
aid. the frantic husband. hearing the
chllds screams, found her in time TO
pun away the cement sacks.
Soon aftefwaTd John Steele came
along from the road camp AMI rem
dered all the, aid he could, taking the
injured persons to the Clark camp.
where Mrs Clark, having had experi
ehce as a professional nurse. lost no
time IN rendering first aid.
Meanwhile woni had been sent 10
salmon. DR.. Hammer at once started
TOR the scene and so did Allen Mer-
NIT, as we'll as Coroner Doebler. The
dead and injured were brought 10
salmon in the evening. The ACCIDENT
had happened al noon.
Mrs. Bates and daughter we're
taken 10 the home Of Mrs. Charles
Rose. Her husband Is the contractor
Tor conveying the Carmen school
pupils To Salmon.
The body Is TO be taken 10 the old
home AT Livingston, Montana. Jacob
bliler ~ the father of the accident
victim. The killorn and Bates fami-
les came to Salmon four years ago
from the Montana city. Mr.. Klllorn
said the cribbinR where the machine
went down was a concealed trap.
rotten and eyumbling. The dag before
he hal driven the same truck with a
heavier load over the same place. The
party had taken dinner on their way
up and had just resumed the trip when
the road crurble1 from under them.
Even after the accident Mrs. killom
Was able to speak and asked for wa
ter. This the husband brought to her
from the riyer in his hands until she
ceased 10 breathe.