Show W ELL L L KNOWN It- It g MINER DROWNS IN OLD SHAFT t f r Charles 1 A. A Peet Meets l Death l J 3 on on Examination of Key Icy 1 West est Property P ci s m Frantically working In foul toul air and cater ater In Iii the shaft of or the Ke Key JeY West seventeen miles from St Ft Thom- Thom as 5 Nc CY miners ar are arc endeavoring to re- re S vcr o tho the body of oC Charlie Charles 9 A A. A Feet Peet aS a S known welI m mining engineer former formerly S on n tho the engineering staff of or Cot Col E 12 A A. all I Mr Ir Icet Peet Is believed to h have havo fallenI fallen Cn I from tram tho foot Coot level evel to ho water I seventy feet teet bolo below following a a. faint faint- In ng spell brou brought ht on b by tho the ISid air all at fit that point Sinco Since tho accident which happened Wednesday morning the minors have havo been taking turns In feverishly working to reco cr recover the tho bod body I from rom St. St last nl ht I sId said that as yet ct the bod body had not been recovered ered J 5 Ire Wife Ire v Tho The first news of ot the accident f readied reached Mrs Irs leot yesterday rel when hen sho sha received the following inos- inos 1 sago saso a o from William Fostel a a. Now w oU mining engineer Dear Mrs Irs Poet 11 lr Peet IoU foil in shaft and Is Is un under underwater cr water Impossible to recover on that S account Do not come corne 1 I will do everything c Havo written p As 8 tho ho property Is Js seventeen miles I St. St Thomas antI fourteen miles It was wa as Impossible to I an any Information until last night nightA 4 A me message to The Tho Herald from St St. Thomas Thoma t saId ald I Mr Ir went do tbs down n Ke Key Kee e t shaft with Alma Leavitt to foot level I J Leavitt left expecting Peet to IC fri turn turned cd back upon miS miss misa- Tini lag ing and found the bucket empty I 5 lt Jt Is H seventy feet to water below the 00 09 level Jevel It is thought I heart or faInted unu fell mn ii men men havo have taken turns trying to get t I the thc bod body which sank ank immediately Theair The air is bad near the tho water level le er Mr 11 Feet Peet held a a. bond honel and lease on the tho old od Key Kc- West cst mine which wa was a fa- fa a- a motis years ears ago aJO He lie also hadea had hada ea a contract ct for tor or th the mine and ind had neall nearly finished hed hl his work It as expected that the water would be lie out Jut of or the mine in the n next few tew days day's and for or that reason Mr Ir Foster was at 4 thc property to make an examination Mr lr who has been een at nt the mine since Jul July I M Prominent In West cst p. p The sha shaft shaff at the mine is 31 feet deep with considerable lIlU mud in tho the bot- bot Jom It was usually Mr Ir Peels Peel's custo custom cus- cus tom tom to measure tho water each morn morn- ng- ng For this purpose th men went in the bucket and antI then climbed 1411 down own the manway to the tho water vater Ac- Ac to the tito report there was forty forty- two feet teet of ot water in the shaft haft hatt It Is that Mr tr Peet must have struck jomo orne object In falling faIling which rendered unconscious and that he drowned f if Mr 11 Peet wa was well swell known throughput throughput through through- h- h put the west as a n mining engineer He HeI I was on one of ot the first engineers in Fair Fair- T lel and other Nevada mining districts j during the tho boom For a a. num- num L Jel ber of oC years cars ho was as an engineer for Colonel Wall Wail all lie He came to Utah about 10 1002 and has hasado nado ado his home here most of ot the time J then Ho lie was a graduate of or tho the High school at Chloa Chicago o and nd for Cor a time attended the tty llY of or Chicago o Later ho he studied en- en at t the University of ot Utah Ii r Ho Ito waa wat born in Athena Pa in 1879 1819 the son of oC Mr lr dr and Mrs ln V. V S. S PeeL He lie Hes ls is s survived b by his widow Mrs l Paulino Pauline anti and two sons son Ben Den and Rodger Rodfer who who live J live at the tho Princeton apart apart- |