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Show t4- 4 4 j : PARK CITY :! 4. i I (Correspondence Intermountain Catholic.) I Park . City is certainly one of the thriving mining camps of the intermountain inter-mountain country. There is plenty of employment far miners. The Silver King employs 260 men; Daly-Wept, 100; Ontario mine and mill, 200; Anchor, 100. The Putman and Yaleo also run large forcea A group of fifty children made their first communion on All Saints' day at St. Mary's church, Rev. Father Galli-gan Galli-gan officiating. In regard to the "History . of the Church in Utah," now -unning in The Intermountain Catholic every week, it may be mentioned that on the occasion of Father Kiely's visit, Thomas James Connor of the Salt Lake House. Park City, packed his (Father Kiely's) books and clothes from Stockton. Utah, to Stockton. Cal., in May, 186". Father Kiely left by the stage in January of the same year. On 'that-trip Mr; Connor Con-nor paid 9 cents a pound for hay and the same for barley. He also paid 6 cents a gallon for water. Mr. Connor is a first cousin of the late General Connor. Michael McCarty, 28 years of age, a stalwart, athletic young man, in the very glow of his manhood, met with an awful death in the Daly-West mine on Wednesday morning. It occurred just as the men were changing shifts. The cage was a double-decker, and j was being hoisted with eighteen men . nine bn a deck when in some unaccountable unac-countable manner McCarty was seized with dizziness and reeled "and fell headlong. head-long. His body was caught between the cage and the side of the shaft and i crushed till his life . was probably squeezed out of him. Then he continued contin-ued his downward course with almost the velocity of a cannon ball, his body' striking the sides of the shaft as it shot down the abyss. In the meantime the cargo had reached the top and the men unloaded. They were horror-stricken at the thoughts of what had occurred and discussed dis-cussed the subject with bated, breath. They knew too well what such a terrible terri-ble plunge meant; they knew that death was inevitable. But no time was lost. The cage was lowered With a rescuing party, who picked up such portions' por-tions' of the remains as could be found. They were in a sickening, shapeless and unrecognizable mass and were brought to the surface In a candle box and sheet and viewed by Acting Coroner Stevens, who deemed it unnecessary to hold an inquest. The deceased was unmarried and was formerly a resident of Butte. He has a sister in Park. City, Mrs. Michael Harrington, wife of the Daly-West Daly-West shift boss. |