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Show I KILLED BY A FALL OFflRAVEL Bait Lake. May 24. Carl E. Helberg, Hel-berg, aged 40 years, waB killed undor a fall of gravel In tho city gravel pit at Tenth South and Thirteenth East streets shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday yester-day afternoon. Helberg was an employe of the city. Is , Ho and Clydo Johnson wore helping William Hunter, a city teamster, to load his wagon when several tons of gravel wero dislodged from the over hanging wall of the pit and came crashing down. Helberg waB caught I In the falling masB and buried. John-I John-I son and Hunter hastily uncovered the body but death had "enBuod already j from tho crushing of the skull by I heavy rocks. A moment before the accident happened hap-pened Hunter warned Helberg against the danger of working too close to the overhanging maBs of rock. "It's liable to fall any time," Hunter Hun-ter told him. "I waa just thinking that myself," replied Helberg and the words were -hardly out of his mouth, when tho earvci-tn, occurred. The body was removed to O'Don-nell O'Don-nell & Co.'s morgue after Dr. H. B. SpreU had examined it. Acting Coroner Cor-oner Harry S. Harper wil conduct an investigation of the accident today. If H BeTberg had boon In the employ of jjjj' - G city for several months. Two days JK ago ho was put to work at the gravel m Srft aiding tho teamsters. Ho !b sur- .j rived by a widow and three small M1 children living at 1405 Blair avenuo. '"j He had been out of work all winter If prior to hiB engagement by the city f and the family, it Is said, Is in destl-i, destl-i, jh ,tute circumstances, it having been Wv Heeoesary to mortgage tho little home v k suJd sU the Hfo Insurance to tide over 'f a tna "winter. p Mtb. Helberg collapsed when told of fm '& her husband's death and a doctor had f to be called. No fnneral arrangements S a have been made. |