| Show I KILLED fN A RUNAWAY CHARLES D WALKER MEETS DEATH I AN ACCIDENT Attempts to Head Off a Frightened Team of Horse and in so Doing Loses His Life TRIBUNE SPECIAL Peoa Utah May 31Charles D Walker the seventeenyearold son of Bishop Walker and a most cstlpiable young man was killed by a runaway team about three miles east of here today to-day Young Walker and his coualn Clarence Clar-ence left here this morning l for the purpose of irrigating some land on 0 farm owned by tho dead boys father In Oakley precinct Each drove a pair of horses attached ordinary farm wagons While driving along the road they the mettle of their rda a race to test mctl tins Charles having the best of the I face VS After the spin down the highway the team driven by Clarence was stopped and he got out of the wagon While standing by the vehicle thp team started start-ed and before he coujd get In were running away Charles who was some distance ahead saw the frightened team cornIng corn-ing and attempted to head them off by crossing the road with his team Just as he swung across the teams collided He was thrown out and in falling his head went between the spokes of one wheel of the wagon He was dragged with the wagon about fifty yards when It was thrown over an embankment nt I to an Irrigating canal His cousin went to his assistance but he was picked up dead His neck was broken right arm broken the bone protruding through the flesh the scalp almost torn from his head and he was otherwise mangled Assistance was I secured and he was brought to his home hpre The teams were caught further up the road but the wagons were wrecked Young Walter was a universal favorite fa-vorite and his untimely death has cast a gloom over the community The funeral fu-neral will occur here on Saturday at 10 oclock a m |
