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Show FATAL ACCIDENT. A Young Man Klllad by a Cave or the Salt Lake dry and Jordan Canal. An a'cident occurnd on the Sa'l Lake ntd Jordan Ctnal, yesterday, which rcHultd in the deetb ol an un-furtjnatc un-furtjnatc young man named John G. wenon. He- was niployed on C 't-die 't-die ,i Burt's cjuirjct at the Point ol the Mountain, ai d in tne morning was engaged in uud.-rmining a bai;k ol earth. Havinc dug under the bank a couple of feet the foreman considered it would be unsafe to work there any more, and put Swenson on anotber part of the contract A:t;r dinner Swenson, returning to his work, remarked that he did not think the bank bad been sufficiently ur.crr mined, and taking a pick t'U-k a few blows, when tin bank cved, burying him under two tone of earti'. He wa? immediately extricated, but n(o was extinct, and must have been almost instantaneous. The pick handle hud been driven into his abdonen, ripping the poor lellowopen in a frightful manner, the intett-neB protruding through the hole. He was otherwise bruised and mangled. Juotico Terry, of Drnper. beld aa in quest, the verdict hping in accordjuce with tie faotd. Peter Burt, one of the contractors, came to the city Ifini evening and obtained a coffin, with which tie will return this morning. SweuBon was 23 years of age, and resided re-sided in Spanish Fork, where his mother now is. The boJy will be taken there lor interment. |