DEATH DEA TH CALLS A AV V V PIONEER WOMAN 4 I Mrs William s Showed Showell o ell Suddenly V Expires in This City I HER TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS WALKED AND PUSHED HAND HANDCART CART IN COMPANY V Mr MeL Kra Showell show Show the only oab non Mormon member of Tylers company emPt ty of Mormon emigrants wile who walked and aad pushed MJ handcart across the plains plaiDS from tr Iowa City to Salt Lake in Ia iSA ISH died suddenly of heart failure fa at her ber home horn In Jn this city yesterday morning She had hd been ill Si from a cold coif for sty sev several Y s eral era days V but death came so quietly and suddenly that her bar husband wise who was by her bee side Bide did not DOt know that the end had come until he be spoke to her herand herand herand and found fouNt her dead This was between 6 i and 7 1 yesterday morning Although she had been suffering from froma a cold for fee several days and under uDder the theare tare care of a doctor do do tor Mrs rs Showell seemed to be better than usual Sunday night nl ht About 5 Monday morning her husband asked her how she felt and she be said sakI she slit was feeling all right ri ht When the husband band awakened again a ain at 7 and spoke to his wife he found h her r dead The shock to the rant fam family ily fly almost prostrated them Mrs V Showell was an aa t and resident of the city and the news of her sudden Budden death willbe received with the deepest regret ret by her ber many friends V Her Thrilling March The death of Mrs Showell marks the close cloae of a ft most t t remarkable career one with experiences that read like fiction but that to those who woo have havil un undergone unde Undergone de Cone similar trials V bring br g back k the stern realisation n of facts thrilling to contemplate V Mrs Mn ShoweR Showell was born m In Lancashire L England Engl d years ago and a d when but t a girl Irl of 17 11 years of age im Int immigrated V migrated to America with her father and younger young r sister bIter in the year year of 1856 1556 The father fathel and younger youner sister became members of the Mormon church but the older daughter da er who ws a faith faithful faithful faithful ful member of the tl e Church of England would MoUld not give up HP her faith for the new doctrine V When Captain Tylers company was being belli organized V in September of 1856 for Its Journey to t Utah Mrs ShoweRs father decided de to go and his hili daughter went with him to care eare for him and her bel younger younger sister Many of that company of men women and children v who ho went t ent with their handcarts han carts on ft that last Jut march across the V plains to the new Zion started on a slow march to the Jaws of death cleath The Tn pim grins destroyer with his hie scythes eyt eB of eold e ld hunger and disease mowed down do the old and the young with such fearful relentlessness that it seemed as though no one would survive V VV V Sufferings of Emigrants The tragedies tra and indescribable inde suf sufferings V that befell betell that company of emigrants it would seem em were beyond endurance but Mrs Irs Showell as did others walked every step of the way from m Iowa City to this valley and pushed a handcart before her Iter time withal to look after and care for her father and sister The cold weather wether which overtook everto k the toe company before it reached V here bile was HS so o great V that tNt as a a Mrs V Showell ha baa V often told V slid she V saw men m n freest freeR to death while car carrying carrying lying a S load of wood to the th to tomake V V VV snake make r ke a fire V V Many Starved to Death V The sufferings which she site and her companions underwent from hunger hun could not be told in words Trenches filled with the starved marked the route router and Death reaped his own OWA with such auch greedy hate that the day the remnant of the Ute company reached Sweetwater where they were wt met by bythe bythe bythe the first firs relief train they burled buried sixty three dead in a trench Among Amon those who went eDt out with the relief train sent from this Uris city was Mi Xe Showell who met and about a year y ar later married the only among amons the number num who made the trip The company reached here Nov 18 IS 1856 V Mr and Mrs ra Showell after living here tere some years y returned to Nebraska but in the early il e ethi g returned r turne to this city and for the past years she hate h lived in her present home at V South Third East street She was wasa wasa a woman of most estimable e qualities and was beloved by all aU who w O knew her herShe herI She Sh leaves a S husband and five children I to mourn her loss V