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Show WM. DOW VICTIM OF FATAL ACC1DLNT Father of the Dow Children Living in Ccdnr City, Meets Trnxic Death at IMochc. Throo fatalities, within as many weeks, is the toll due to accidents recorded among the mines of this and adjacent districts. The first was Tom Grovcr, who met death by being crushed In a cnvo-ln at Bristol, the not was Charley Gillcn, the victim of ti premature explosion in the Amalgamated Amalg-amated Piocho mine; the last was Win. 13. Dow, who died enrly Tuesday morning as n result jf an accident at the hoisting plant of the Yuba Leasing Leas-ing & Development Co., Sunday morning. morn-ing. Dow was in the night shift, as engineer. en-gineer. It was about quitting time and just before hoisting the last man out of the mine, he put on his coat preparatory to wnlking down to his cabin. When the last skip was up, Dow turned off the gasoline with his right hand and at tho same time renched to turn ofT tho oil cup suspended sus-pended above the main shaft. Meanwhile, Mean-while, the ragged ends dangling from his coat slotvo became caught in the master goar and In almost a twinkling the engineer w8 drawn into the very Jaws of death. Although the gas feed had been shut off, enough momentum wns left In tho wheels to do their fearful work, and Dow's arm was ground to a pulp In the immense cogs. Ho called for help, and the men whom ho had just hoisted from the mine ran to his assistance. It took qll the strength of four men to move the machinery bflcUwnrd, and even then it was necessary to use a pocket knifo to cut mangled particle? of clothing and flesh before the unfortunate man could be extricated from hlfi precarious precar-ious position. With his mangled arm dangling ut his side; his collar and 3houldur bonos broken; his lungs piercod by broken ribs; besides other serious injuries and against th? protestations pro-testations of his assogiates, Dow insisted in-sisted on walking ikWn to tho hospital, whero m.edicu.1 attontion wns soon available. An examination of his injuries in-dicatcd in-dicatcd that there was ltfo Stance for the patient to survive. However, Dow being ft man of wonderfully strong phyajque, h,la friends hopod for the bestj and they worts quite encouraged encour-aged Monday. But that night complications com-plications set in and at 1 a. m. Tuesday, Tues-day, the summons came. The deceased had We" a resident of I'ioche foe n number of years and during all that time followed mining as a vocation. Ho is survived by two small children, who are with their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Watts, at Cedar City, Utah. Funeral service wore hold Wednes day afternoon under the auspices of Piocho Lodgo No. 23, I. 0. 0. I and interment took place in tho Odd Fellows' Fel-lows' cemetery. It was Dow's request to bo burled here. W. D. Watts, father-in-law of the deceased, was the only relative present pres-ent at the obsequies. Piocho Record. |