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Show ! Mrs. Kent Smith Is Paid $1050 ! . for Death of Hcv Hush a nd. j ACTION FOR $15,000 IS FILED AND DISMISSED Deceased One of the Mei Who Lost Life in Mine a I Bingham. i Kent Smith's widow, Jennie Morris Smith, accepted $10r0 in the district court. Tuesday, in full payment for hia heroic sacrifice of his own life in the Utah Copper company's mine at Bingham Bing-ham in the early evening of Xovembor 21 last, to savo that of Dominic Spia-doro, Spia-doro, an Italian. By stipulation, in Judgo Morris L. Ritchie's division of the court, Mrs. Smith was given judgment for this amount. Simultaneously with tho filing of articles of agreement upon tho amount, a suit for $15,000 damages for the death of tho husband was tiled, but this was a formality, and was dropped with tho consummation of tho compromise, compro-mise, or agreement, as to tho $1050. The dead man 's daughter, Cordelia Jewel Smith, was a party to the suit, by Mrs. Smith, as her guardian ad lit-, lit-, cm. Two others besides Smith and the Italian lost thoir lives at tho samo timo. Tho compressod air pump failed to work and as no warning was posted, Spia-doro Spia-doro wont into tho mino and to his death, being asphyxiated. Smith went to his rescue and mot the samo fa to. Then Goorgo Wilson and Hugh Burns attempted to rcscuo Smith and thoy, too, wero asphyxiated. Mr. Smith was thirtj'-four years old and was well known in this city, which had been his homo for 3'ears. |