Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1902-03-23 | Page 3 | Boy's Life is Crushed Out

BOYS ll LIFE FE JS IS CRUSHED t Thomas C Connelly nn lly M Meets ets With J Fatal Accident WAS IN SAND BANK 4 SOFT EARTH VED IN HOMAS CON ELLY I of T I age who was playing With two young Joons ill In a ditch near Third South street stroet west of the Jordan brIdge yesterday was u caught by a falling failing embankment and Bel ly killed Willie Griffin one or of his companions was also allM caught In Iii the but was extricated without In TIle three boys Tom Willie and Fred B Beynen an all pUpils of the schooL started from their homes bomes earl early yesterday agaInst Ute the pro protests tests o of their to catch ground squirrels the river and to ply play playa I t a LI a Thomas omas Connelly In the sand nd bank whet where workmen had been excavating dirt Arriving at the place they leaped from the embank embankment meat ment Into t the e soft earth below elow Tile The bank is about six feet teet high hb and has hall been made soft a and u unsafe re by the recent rainS Heedt heedless of the danger lurking In the uge bank of earth over overhead overhead head the boys boY s at last were diverted from their sport by t the to dl dig A cave Into the embankment DUI Dill gentL nt and happily P their work and burrowed with sticks let the sand t Bank Caved In SuddenlY without noise e and without warnIng wanting the bank a way ay And top topple pin hea heavily to the gr Connelly was caught beneath the fUrn falling mass massand and pinioned headd head beneath its weight Willie leaped to esI cc ape Use the danger but Was 11 caught and co revereS up tO th the I in the debris e lt t W Wi i ra I injury add itt Ul fOr of rescuing f tat Seizing he at lat Jaet Succeeded I in pulling r the bOy by front from his perilous position and together they attempted to remove the huge do j t the body of Frantic with the fears of II his death they dug Into the saud saed and dirt with their lingers but theY w re too feeble to the e earth wh Ji hader crushed the boY loft left him at last t to bin bis fate rushIng wildlY toward the he city In Inthe Inthe the hope o securing a aid id The ditch Is Yards from the n t residence I and the b boys ys dashed up to the door of I Stephen r Jensen sen Central avenue Breathless with excitement they at last rel related ted their storY And Jensen T I with a accompanied them back backI to the place He removed l the dirt In Ina Ina a short and took out the lifeless I form or of the boy The body was 8 covered with a coating of mud and dirt and was horribly crushed He was 8 removed to Jensens home while the other lads hurried to Inform his people who live at Cannon street The bod body was taken in charge by Un Undertaker ODonnell who has n apt t made the final arrangements for Cor the burial Connell Connelly would have bave been l 10 years of age in Tune June He Is the son of f P J I II a machinist In the of I the Rio Grand GrandC Railway I