Show PRIVATE STEPHENS KILLED THE MAX FRIGHTFULLY MAXGLiED 1V REVOLVING JOUXERY I Went Into the Power House of the Suit Lake City Street Rnilirny Company anti Fell en It Four teenInch Belt Driven By I 200 Horse Power Engine Bclohsert lo the hlileeuth Infantrj The Regiment Juices Charge of the Hoiuniics Private Charles Stephens of company com-pany G Sixteenth infantry scatloied at Fort Douglas walked imo the powerhouse power-house of the Salt Lake City Street Railway company on Second East street at about 830 oclock lat evening even-ing when the dynamos and orher machinery ma-chinery was running at full fore and got tangled up In one of the large belts with the result that he was instantly killed his bOdy being frlghttuliy mangled man-gled Stephens came down from the Fort in company with a comiade named Charles liostiund Stephens had with him 1 valise and a bundle of beiHinc which he intended taking to the Union Pacific depot to be sent to Ogden to Private Haeflev who went out on a I furlough on Tuesday Passing the power house Stephens handed the bag gage to Eostrund wit the remark that he wanted to see somebody in the power pow-er house and would be back in a minute min-ute walked in by the wicket gate and in a few seconds after Bostrund heard I a cry and on entering found his companion com-panion laying on the floor in a pool of blood near one of the large aulleys FELL ON THE BELT I Gus Siegfus an employee of the company com-pany says he noticed Stephens immediately imme-diately after he entered and saw him fall on a 14inch belt used to drive the large pulley of one of the dynamos with I the force of a 200horse power ensine behind it He fell onto the belt about fifteen feet from the pulley and was in gtantly carried along to the pulley which he struck with terrific force The belt was so tight that there was no room for the mans body to pass between it and the belt and he was thrown oft Ito I-to the other side of the pulley to the floor and instantly killed His head was mashed to a pulp his breast bone and the ribs of the right side literally caved in and his right shoulder and right arm mashed and broken Coroner Offenbach was sent for and the military officials at Fort Douglas notified The soldiers ambulance soon arrived and the body was removed tote to-te fort NO INQUEST NECESSARY Coroner Offenbach after making an investigation decided that a inquest was unnecessary a it appeared that there was no one to blame for the horrible death of Stephens but Stephens himself On the door by which he entered is printed In large letters No I admittance He had no apparent bust ness there and should have either kept out or been more careful when he entered tered The unfortunate man it is said was somewhat under the influence of liquor and his companion Bostrund admitted that they had been drinking beer Bostrund was however not I drunk and he said Stephens had tad only about four glasses of beer But I a he had been drinking it is nrobable the heat of the engine room and the confusion of the revolving wheels made him dizzy causing him to fall on the belt beltDrs Drs McAchran and Wilcox were immediately im-mediately summoned after the accident dent but of course could be of no service ser-vice a the mans death w almost instantaneous Stephens was a man of about thirty years of age who came from Texas eight or ten years ag and has been In the Sixteenth infantry ever since His officers say he was of good character charac-ter and a good soldier He was born near Manchester England and a far as known ha no relatives in this part of the country The body will probably be buried by his comrades In the soldiers sol-diers burial ground at the fort |