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Show CORONER'S INQUEST. The following is the report of the coroner's jury in the case of the two men buried in the snowslide of Logan canyon: TERRITORY OF UTAH, County of Cache, Logan Precinct. An inquisition held? at Logan City, County of Cache, on the 29th day of February, A.D. 1880, before Ezra D. Carpenter, coroner in and for said county upon the bodies of William King and Nephi Osterholdt? There being dead by the jurors whose names are hereby subscribed. The jurors upon their oaths do say that William King came to his death by a violent blow upon the right temple and side of head and face caused by a snow slide in Maughan's Fork in Logan canyon: and that Nephi Osterholdt came to his death by suffocation while buried in the snow caused by the said snow slide as above indicated. James Quayle, James A. Leishman, William Hyde. Signed, Ezra D. Carpenter, County Coroner. |