Show kirkwood fisher falls to his death it was just a month lacking fackiner lac kiner a clay af after ter the electric spark brought the iho sad intelligence of the drowning 42 of elder joseph hogan in the river rhine that the same silent messenger t announced the death of ano another t lier of most highly 0 respected and promising 0 young men kirkwood fisher son of the hon jolin john and josephine R fisher so inside of a month a gloom loom has twice been cast over the town and its inhabitants have been called to mourn you could now scarcely pick out two young men from the town of their age who would be more generally known than they were the one passed away in a forein foreign C n land while performing missionary duties whilo while the 0 grim rim reaper of death I 1 caught the other while performing cl his everyday every day labors not so very far from home kirkwood was at woodruff rich county utah putting 5 up hay for his uncle byron sessions for whom he had been laboring since about the first of july when the accident occurred it happened in this way they were unloading hay lay with a liay lay derrick and a za net the former consisted simply of a pole set in the ground vertically and steadied by guy ropes ropes the rope used in pulling c the net passed through 0 a pulley that was fastened to the top of the vert icle pole the pulley got dry and squeaked squeal ced so kirkwood thought ho be would put an end to the annoyance by getting ting C into the not net and going up and greasing it he reached the top threw one leg over the lateral era guy rope breaking it the rope had been abal almost 0 st worn through by the pulley or unloading rope r coming oming in contact with it without any ono noticing it so it did not require much of a blow to finish severin severing Z it when th the rope broke the derrick fell and kirkwood with it a distance of fifty five feet one can imagine za the force with which it came down from the fact that the descending pole fell across a four pole fence breaking three of them two alma doktors were immediately sent for by a messenger on horseback and readied reached the place inside of an hour and a half after the accident occurred at first when they examined him they did not think that he was fatally hurt as he was conscious could sit up and only complained of his le log hurtin hurting him but later ho he vomited clots blots of blade black blood when the physicians realized that he was fatally injured internally ter tor nally he expired about tour four hours after lie he was hurt which was about 8 thursday evening sept eth 1809 1899 he was conscious until about a half an hour before he expired ile he had bail no idea that his fall meant death as ho he did not want them to send word to liis his parents that eliat lie he was hurt until tho the doctors had made an examination the doctors found upon examination that his right D leg lo 10 was broken above tho the knee and the right arm below the elbow and the chin bones badly pru crushed hed his chin struel on the pulley when it reached the ground whon when tho the examination had been made by the doctors and later when the seriousness of the injuries had bad become known word was immediately sent to his bis father by telephone to ev evanston anston and by telegraph from there A second message was sent as soon as he expired but these messages were not delivered to his father until about 9 the lexi next morning and then they were received only two minutes apart lie ile has not ascertained with whom the fault lies for their delay mr byron sessions arrived at woods cross with the body on friday evening C aud the funo fune al services were held at the tabernacle on sunday at a I 1 2 p in the house was is packed with people from bountiful and other towns of the county about twenty five ol of young 0 people boys and 0 girls came over ina in a float drawn by four horses th the e ladies were all dressed in white the beautiful white casket containing 0 the remains was carried r fro from in the family residence to the inee meeting tiner house by tw twelve elve of his young youn Z C companions am pan ions h his is father brothers members of the priests quorum and twelve young youn C ladies dressed in white following the remains on foot followed by a number of carriages elder I 1 ider B IL roberts spoke a very consolin consoling funeral sermon and remarks were made by elders aaron call byron sessions of woodruff too druff thomas abbott farmington T J paoo pago and bishop stoker elder sessions stated that his men were intending in to round roundup up stock the next mornin morning and kirkwood was intending to go with them but ho he had a feeling 0 come over him that he should not let him go and had so decided in his own mind the casket was covered with floral offerings which were worked in various shapes prominent among them were a column surmounted by a dove labeled A loving tribute of remembrance from your centreville Cen centre treville ville F friends a harp with the inscription at rest presented by th the a poll bearers and a pillow presented by mr and mrs oswold of salt lalic lake city the casket was carried from the meeting house to tile the hearse by six of liis his brothers irvin perry erastus Erast ns horton hoi ton george and john about sixty vehicles were in the procession that moved to the cemetery deceased was twenty one years old last december Decombe rand and was unmarried ho he had an excellent character |