Show hANS CLAUSSEX KILLED He F Vls Into Unprotected rat at the Progress Building Wbel Mr David Harmon one of the Trorkmcn employed on Mr wtbachs Progress building 1O East Temple street went to his iabor this morning discovered in the area at the back of the building the body of a man his head lying in a pool of bIo Other we notified and an iuvcrUgatlou showed that gUon the man was dead The left side < > f his thee and head was badly cut am bruised and he had bled tl ble re officers canio and removed the body of the unfortunate man who was recognized as Hans Claus son a resident of Third West Street near Fifth South From an examination of the surroundings sur-roundings it was evident that rundlng Uat Mr Claussen had come out of the saloon north of the Progress building and on getting to the area the path being narrow aud muddy he had slipped and gone headlong to his death He had fallen a distance of abou 1 12 Ct aud struck his head on a large iron pipe There was no evidence of any struggle on his Jar to rite from Ill jiosUion and though I is hardly probable that death vas Instantaneous I is not JlkUy that he regained conscious dees before his rlgne He was about o yen ofage and leaves a wife and several small children chil-dren He has been chiefly engaged in mining An Inquest was held by the coroner The sad lien was conveyed to his family in the Sixth Ward r The place where the unfortunate man met with the fatal fatl accident is uf the most dangerous kind and its L maintenance in the present condition condi-tion is a violation of the city ordinance ordi-nance There are two large area about six by fifteen feet and ten t twelve feet deep One of these is partially covered and the other Is rntirelyopen wbilcbothare without protection TImesoih around Ishigbr than the brick worfc and I favorable I fur just such accidents a this ODe when a person chances t pass that iiy in the duk Had the places Ion properly protected it Is not likely that Mr Claussens family and friends would now have been mourning his sad fate |