| Show TOY MAY BLACK killed shot by a young companion by accident TRAGEDY ON HOYS RANCH I 1 promising find BEA salt luke lake alvid the tha victim ot of careless shooting ot of a nite rl by willie IL a kock springe boy young black elisci allm rolf on a haystack and a bullet in his shoulder and neck awful blow to his 13 parents I 1 wray E black the sixteen old pon of mr mir and mrs mra thomas R clack black was accidentally shot find killed by walli I 1 mcginness a companion on tin the ranch of mrs S hoy folly five miles from rock springs wyo car early ly friday morning the circumstances surrounding the tragedy are peculiarly distressing young clock black csont to ilia elie ranch two weeks mecks ago affo to spend part ot of ills hl vacation on a bursting and fishing trip full of lle life anil and spirits he bade bada hla hia parents goodbye good bye bab with many promises ot of the kame game ho be would kill and bi in home no shadow hadow ot of the com coming ing tragedy trae eily marked that last parting the lad ad enung himself Y aboard a passing street car and soon was waa burring toward ills his destination tn or wednesday last the hay macint season bosan began oni on the hoy ranch it was great reat aport for or young black and his comrades to match balth the mowing m fit hill as as they swept through tile tho billowy ses iwa of 0 tall grass brass As aa they saw the amal ling hay hoisted and packed into preat great stacks an idea struck the boys boya ahey concluded it would be lots ot of fun to sleep on the hay bay with the im twinkling inkling stare star and tile the hi blue u e domo dome of 0 prairie sky eky over them item wednesday n night light they enjoyed the experience so to much lich that they concluded to repeat it t about 6 on friday iday lr morning took up a 45 43 calibre rin with v aich the h boys hid had ten been t en I 1 hunting I 1 unto slid and on a tramp I 1 AWAKENED TO bai SHOT lie ile told the other boys that he would return before long langr walh a deer an hour anda and antl a halt later he carniv camo back bin it and began pealing rille rifle ife he vaa chips in ili the air aud and illi ng landom shots at them when black who mile had been boxing on th ahe e top lop of tho the hay raised himself on one elbow at AB he did so no tired bred again and black sank back on the hay moaning meaning when his teral fled friends climbed up the lle hay to his side they found blood spurting from a great grant gash cash in tho the wounded boyr boya shoulder and from a hole in his neck neill help win was summoned from the house which was ivas a few hundred yard away and young black was carried there ite he seemed to rally slightly when an effort vas mav ma v made to stanch the alom of blood rod and a wagon was haq made ready in in which to carry him to a physician in n rork rock spring the start mart nas as made but the boy bacare bacame so BO touch much worse from tho the lolling jolting of 0 the amron that it was as thought best to take him back to ills hie ranch house this was wae done and a mOs messenger seger rent pont for or a docdor doctor gradually Gradual iv the lad ad began to sink ai aa though even to the end it t was walf hoped that he u BBS as not fatally wounded to two 0 hours boura after tile shot wits waa fired young alack murmured inui aured I 1 am so po tired mrs hoy wont you let me go to sleep lent aey were viere his art words worda for a moment later his head sank rank back on tho the pillow and life was extinct PLOW BLOW TO HIS PAR PAK EN TS at her homo home on birst street mrs mra black was reading a bright from her son telling of hla his rood good healin and gl glorious Klor orinus lous sport when mr clack black camo came in alth ill a te telegram legra I 1 announcing that array lv ray had b been cen id aled path both mr an and 1 I mrs alris black went by the next train to rock springs when they at ai rived they round that the body of their boy had bad been taken from tho th ranch to the hie t town and that everything possible had been done for or him the mcginness be boy was almost franc tc lie with grief ile he insisted on going I 1 to 0 r rock t 0 c k springs and giving himself up to t the b 1 police notice ile he was locked up but when sir MM black heard of lof it he a ex pressed a desire that he be not prosecuted le ife was convinced from what lie he had board beard that the killing was tho the result of 0 an accident although ness had been culpably careless the body of diack was brought to salt bait lake dar afternoon both parents of tile the imy boy are atme alme inot t provat rated by the calamity but friends ministered to their sorrow yesterday find attempted to offer consoli consola tion llon th ahr funeral den Por Nices ices will occur this afternoon at 4 the interment will rill be in mt olivet wray black was mas born in fairfield la III in december nt not long conff after lie he was born hla his parents came to salt i lake where they have albico resided tile the dead boy nas BBS bt belli ing educated in ili the public schools Lola ile he was wan in tile the second grale grade at the high school and always flood well in his classes among iff his friends red aud Play playmates matea ho he was use ue deservedly popular and hla his and udden death will leave a void among amone that hlll n in be hard to 1111 young McGinn mcginnest esq who Is almost as a much to lie pitied pilled as the fai family tilly of tile lad ad lie he filled lives ives in rock nock springs ile ho came out there several years ago aco from chicago with ills adopted parents and has hal always been known as it a very likeable little chap 3 he te la Is 11 years old the ranch where aher the tragedy occurred burred was formerly former tv owned by valentine s R hoy who lie was vias killed a few ago age by powder springs spring desperadoes |
