Salt Lake Tribune | 1895-07-31 | Page 5 | Buried in a Sand Fall

BURIED IN A SAND FALL JACOB ROBINSON OF VILLE VILIE KILLED crushed ly a weight 0 lime and covered to eis 1119 neck with the sand died almost instantly heaver deaver utah july SO special to tribune yesterday afternoon about 4 jacob robinson in company with grifis th williams lett left Ore emIlle a r ir lit 11 village four our miles west ot of this city with a wagon to go e to the sand bed about one mile south of that place fox for a load of sand at 6 1 p in williams returned with the body of robinson williams alil that dobinson went into the sand band bed and commenced picking under a fot motion of lime arid and cement to erve cavo down the I 1 sand and when all of 0 a the formation broke off striating ting him under tinder the right la bream and a bod body Y ot of mind a ran d falling with lah it burled buried him ull but hl his a head williams illiams oV blending near by jumped to hla his rescue but in trying to remove the mass broke his shovel and in hate drove to tho the nearest settlers for help which was obtained and the body soon anon taken from the sand robinson Kobl was wag almott instantly Inot antly killed lie he was wa a miner born in utah county his father la now lie ro lit in wyoming und and lit his s mother Is dead tire the victim wa was i well weil respected and was as said bald to be a rood good kind land and quiet young man lie ile was unmarried 27 years of 0 age arid and of 0 scotch parentage about two yeara yea ago ag 0 aar kusbel s 9 el carter son eon of 0 chilo ca carter arter an one is of t the it e members of the th mormon battalion was burled buried similar Y in t the he same place and only lived about four hours attar belne being extricated