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Show MINE ACCIDENT VICTIM'S RITES HELD WEDNESDAY Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. at 36 E. 7th South, Salt Lake City, by Leland N. Openshaw, bishon, Third ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Henry Eli Judd, 54 year old shovel electrician lcr Kennecott Copper Corp., whose crushed body bo-dy was found Saturday at 11:30 p.m. on one of the high levels of the company's huge open pit mine here. An autopsy Sunday revealed the man died from internal injuries in-juries when h1 apparently fell from a car being loaded near the point. Richard Smith, shovel operator opera-tor at the mine, found the body. Complete report of the accident was not made until early Sunday morning, a company spokesman said. A string of cars was being loaded at the time 't is believed Mr. Judd met his death. As each car was loaded the train was pulled pull-ed forward the length of one car. It was believed Mr. Judd either fell from a car and was crushed or that he was passing between two cars when thpy were pulled forward. Because there was no witness to the mishap, the autopsy was conducted. It revealed he died from several internal injuries. Born August 22. 1894, in Kan-ab, Kan-ab, Kane county, he spent the early portion of nis life farming at Fredonia, Ariz. Mr. Judd was employed by California Edison Co., Los Angeles, about five years He had been an electrician at Kennecott Copper Corp. 23 years. He married Jennie Meibos June 23, 1926, in Salt Lake LDS temple. She died December 26, 1947. Mr. Judd was active in home missionary work in Third LDS ward. In addition to h.s parents, he is survived by two sons, Thomas E. and Karl L. Judd, Salt Lake City; three brothers, Dart W., Z. R., and Allen Jujd. Fredonia; five sisters, Mrs Joseph Burton, Ogden; Mrs. Arthur Jacobson, Malta, Ida., Mrs. John Brooksby, Fredonia, Mrs. Dee Hughs and Mrs. Leonard Hui;hs, Mesquite, Nev. Burial was in Salt Lake City cemetery. o |
