| Show killed by bya ft pall fall or a blow last thursday evening while work in ng at the Conkli conkling og sampling mill at salt lake city chy fredrick who had for along a long time lived here and a year or two in Cen centreville treville leaving that place only about a month s so ago 0 o to commence work there and ten lays days ago bovid moving his mother and brothers brothe ra and si sisters ste rs to salt L lake ake met with some kind of v mysterious accident about 6 that evening which resulted in his death about twelve hours later fred in connection with other employees was engaged t until after dark filling the last car of ore 1 as it happened he be took the last wheelbarrow load into the car and consequently was the last to start home the custom is for the employees to drop their wheelbarrows as soon as the last trip is made and start for their homes As fred was the last to leave and had bad to go through ka the engine room to get his bis bicycle it is thought being dark in the room that when he had got his coat that in trying to walk by he stepped oft off into a new engine pit just made which is about 8 feet in diameter and the same number of feet in depth striking 0 on the side of his head on the con concrete crete walls or on the concrete in the bottom of the pit as to how bow he be managed 0 to get out and to get home on his bis wheel is not known ile ho arrived home which was near the corner of tenth south and second west streets about an hour and a halt half later thin than usual ills his feeling for the door knob for some time without bein being 0 cr able to find it caused his moth arto erto open the door when he partly staggered in and sitting on a chair he said he had a fall which made his head bead ache he did not sleep much luring during the night in the morning it was seen been that tha t he was in a critical condition and a doctor was sent for but before the doctor arrived lie be had bad passed away coroner taylor a jury who 0 investigated 0 the matter during the afternoon and eveni evening ncr g and rendered a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to his death from in ter cranial hemorrhage of the brain caused by injury to the skull either by a blow or fall but which to the jury is quite unknown funeral was held in the fourth ward meeting house last sunday this is a very hard blow to his mother who is a widow woman with three or four children who have looked to him im for their support deceased was 23 years of age was born in bern switzerland came to utah about ten years ago |
