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Show Killed by a S.now-Slide. LaM night the body of J. C. Smith, of Illinois, was brought into town and deposited at the City Hall, he having been killed by a snow-slide. The deceased de-ceased has been two years in Utah, and wis working on the Richmond lode. Silver fork, Big Cottonwood canon, in which he was interested. On Monday, the 5th, he started from the mine to go over to the store in Littlt Cottonwood to purchase candles, and about three hundred feet from the mine be was ciughi in a snow-slide which carried him dowi-he dowi-he gulch about fwur hundred feet and buried him. The miners turned oui en Tnasse and dug out the body, lifi-being lifi-being extinct. He was a moral, sober man, and generally respected. |