Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-08-01 | Page 4 | Fatal Accidental Fall down Stairs at Hotel of Well-Known Cripple

FSTAL BCCIDENTHL FALL DOWN STAIRS AT HOTEL Of WELL-KNOWN CRIPPLE SBisBBMeassaaBBawassssaaasaaM C. A. Carmen, better known as "Wing," 30 years of age. met with a fatal accident at 62 Commercial atreet ahortly after 4 o'clock thle morning by falling down a flight of stairs. According to the statement of the occu-panta occu-panta of the house, Carmen had been there for some time and had evidently been drinking. About 4 o'clock he waa asked to leave the bouse. As be started down the ataira, the man fell. At the toot of the flight he struck his skull against the cement pavement and hla skull was fractured. When he was picked up a few seconds later by Patrolman George Burton he was unconscious and bleeding slightly from the right ear. Officer Burton at once notified Dr. W. F. Beer, who arrived-In a few minutes. The ambulance was summoned and the man taken to the L. D. S. hospital, where he died a few minutes later. Carmen came to Salt Lake a little more than a year ago. He was known aa "Wing," on account of having lost one of hla arma. Deapite thia condition it ia aaid that he waa an expert piano player and earned the greater part of hla living thia way. . . The man haa no relatives living In Salt Lake, but is believed to have a number In Texas, to whom telegrams were sent this morning asking what disposition should be made of the body, which haa been received to the undertaking parlora of Joaepb William Taylor.