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Presley fans ' killedby car MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)â€"Hundreds keeping vigil outside Elvis Presley’s mansion Watched in horror early today as a car struck and killed two women, hours before the singer’s funeral. Police said the car was speeding and the driver had been drinking. The women, and a third person who was injured, were standing in a median section of fourâ€"lane Elvis Presley Boulevard, while about 300 persons were gathered on the sidewalk across from Graceland Mansion. Three women and one man were arrested several blocks away after the incident. Police said the car was travelling at 55 miles per hour down the street, where the limit is 40 miles per hour. The accident came on a day that was to have been for the family and the close friends of Elvis Presley, not for the clawing, clutching, adoring crowds. .As he wished it, the funeral toda [for the 42- ear-old Slllfie!‘ was to be conducted in private, in mid-af ernoon, w1t prayer and euloggin the mansion he called home gagentombment near 15 mother, in a cemetery not far y. The family had planned to allow the ublic to view Presley’s body for two hours Wednes ay. The time stretched to_31/2 hours and there were still about 15,000 £358 pilgrimage to see Presley 3 final time was in Sheriff Gene Barksdale estimated that 25,000 to 30,000 walked past the seamless copper coffin. The estimate “1.3 have been generous, but the lines continued th out letup for the entire 31/2 hours. Presley was dressed in a cream-colored, almost white, suit wrth pale blue shirt and silver tieâ€"Christmas presents from his father. Presley’s face showed the effects of the weight he gasined ll; hisllatieri years. , ozea ousy i the fam' guard the rivate aspects of the day, that the names ofy those officigting at the ser- v1ce and mOSt of those invited to attend were withheld. Rex Humbard, a nationally known evangelist from Akron, Ohio, said he would officiate. Humbard had Visited Presley at his Memphis home, known as Graceland Mansion. Wanâ€"H..- ~5 1‘