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Show H Bingham Tragedy Casts a Gloom H ' Over Salt Lake t and Hf FUNERALS OF VICTIMS Hi WILL TAKE ELACE today H Body of 'Mr. Taft Goes to Old jlK Home, Body of 31 r., Leigh l to Mt Olivet. HB I No one enn toll what the morrow will HH I bring forth. A week ago yesterday Hi members of the Senaio and House of Hi Representatives of the seventh General Hi Assembly started, on a trip lo Richfield, H I Utah. They returned Sunday night. The HI I life of the party, the two persons who Hf contributed largely to the pleasure of HJ the party, were SctTi TVtft, of Thurbcr, flQj Wayne county. Representative from the HJ Twenty-second district, and f lint B. HI Leigh represent ativo of the Snlt Lake HMi Yesterday in the hall of the House HI l of Representatives, when, the gavel in HB the hands of Chief Clerk Buchanan foil, IB I when the chaplain had invoked tho Di- wh J vine blessing, and tho roll was called, H j one man failed to answer. Q ) In the third house- where, at the left IK of the writer, another man was always IH ready to respond, was a vacant chair. HB Both had answered the final roll call HJ; in the great bevoml, whore all men aro Hl iudped bv the deeds done upon earth. HHj ' On the desk of Seth Tafu an Ameri- Hb' can flap was draped. On the desk of He Clint B. Leiph lay a boquct of white Hi roses, underneath "which was a sheet of Nflj paper with the cabalistic fipurc3 "tt0. " HjH The end had come. HI In the home in Salt Lake two father- HI less hovs and a widowed mother await: DBf ed the coming of the body of a husband BHJj and father. HB At a home in Wayne county, sixty HMIa miles away from the railroad, a widow IHj! and children pursued their ordinary vo-8H vo-8H cations while a mcssenper was en routo H to tell them that a preat. calamity had HJ come upon them that a husband and IH j father was no more. HJ Tn another home in Salt Lake a man IHJ lav in hi? room moaning with pain, sick HI at heart, over the death of two persons HI I who, with others, had accompanied him HI I on a pleasure trip on Friday to Binp-H Binp-H ham Canyon. This man was the speak-H speak-H cr of the TTousc of Representatives, HJ i Ilarrv Joseph, lie had secu two of his IH' friends die and he escaped a like fate HK only bv the presenco of mind of another HE fricnd'also a member of the part'. The H tragedy came near being a triple one. HJi When the newspapers 'of Salt. Lako HJ' " on vestcrdav morning announced tho IH tragedy in Bingham Canyon, not only HJ1 . was Salt Lake shooked. but the State HJ was likewise, and to none did tho blow HJ ' strike harder or with more forco than HJtl to the members of tho Seventh Assenting Assent-ing "The House had adjourned nn Thurs-HKI Thurs-HKI day evening until Saturday at 1 p. m. BHS The Senate had adjourned until 2 p. m. H1 " In the House a heavy calendar was H on for disposal upon Saturday. As said, Hjf the speaker was ill at home. When the (I clerk had called the HoviFe to order and Hi) the roll call had been made. Representa- HM tive from Beaver county was rocog- nl A caucus had been hastily called in HJg the morniug, and the preliminaries had HM been arranged. . HI When Mr. Tolton was recognized ho Hyjl addressed the temporary speaker, Ru- H dolph Kuchler, who had been so chosen HJ by the House, thus: Hnj Mr. Speaker. It becomes my painful HR lutv at this time to make formal an- HM nouncement to this honorable body of DM the doatli of Hon. Soth Taft. one of pur H distinguished members, and of Mr. Clint HW 13. I-elgh. a reporter of the Salt Lake HH Herald, which occurred at Blnghnm can- Hjl von. Salt Lake county, last evening. US " In company with a party composed HI chiefly of members from this House, they H v.-ero spending tho day Inspecting-the H great mines and their operations at Rlng- HH ham. Just as thev were completing their HI visit and while on .board a Hat car with HM other members of the party on a heavy Hue grade, without a moment's warning, a I car on another train further up the hill-HM hill-HM side broke loose and collided with the HM engine drawing the cars upon which our HM deceased friends were seated. They being HM nar the forward end of the car. were HI thrown between It and the adjoining car Hffl attached to the engine ami fell onto the HQ track. The car and a portion of the en-HM en-HM glne passed over thorn, crushing both legs HM of .Mr. Taft at the thigh and almost sev-HK sev-HK erinc them from tho body, breaking the II neck of "Mr. Leigh, killing him Instantly. IDS Mr Taft was unconscious but a few mo-Hffl mo-Hffl mc-nts, his wonderful nerve and physical HU strength enabled him to endure his suf-HjR suf-HjR fcrlng with a fortitude and courage sel-H sel-H dom heard of but peculiarly characteristic HM of the man. Ho remained conscious for HB about two hours, when df-ath relieved him HM of his dreadful suffering. HM During his extreme suffering he re- Hff talnecl his composure and tho thought Hji uppermost In his mind was tho duty he tflj ow--(l his constituents and State. Tip ex- H pressed the desire that tho business of HM this house and Important questions be- Ijfl fore it should be attended to with prompi- Hf ' ness and fearless fidelity lo the State. H which was likewise characteristic of the Hi m?li that loving hands could do to relieve HM "Messrs. Taft and Leigh was done. The Wm messenger of death had claimed them and Hs their useful and eventful lives were Hfl "Peace to their ashes, consolation to Mili their bereaved families In the hour of IH their great affliction, and may the rnem- M on' of their honorable and heroic chnr- fgji actc-rs live forever. Hj Mr. Tolton then sent to the Clerk's In desk, and had read, the following, which Hj had been sent lo him as the floor leader frR of minority: Hf Learning this morning of the tragic HM death of your, colleague. Honorable Seth Hi i Taft, and our friend Leigh. I was great- HB ly shocked ut the terrible news. I knew Km Mr. Taft personally, as well as politically. Hni and esteemed him highly. If in the ten- H3 der care of his remains tho Democratic HM State committee can be of service, your IllS.' commands shall have our spontaneous HHi rnd Instant co-operation. Sympathetlcal- HJJIu 1. L. n. MARTINEAU. HI To Arrange Memorial Service. HJU Speaker Kuchler then, on motion, ap-HBij ap-HBij pointed a committee of bi- persons to IHRji arrange for memorial services, at a Hi joint session of the Senate aud tho MuMl House, to be held in the hall of the Hjf House' on a date to be decided upon Da j later, and nnmcd Representatives Davis, WM Westphal, Thoinnsoii, Toitpn and Dorms. HI This committee is to act in conjunction Hjl with the committee from the Senate, MM Senator Binkerhoff having been designs desig-ns uated, and with a committee from the JOT Press club. mflk, A committee on resolutions was also mm appointed to draft a suitable memorial log to ne qntered on tho records, . luB A committee, -consisting of Messrs. Dorius, .lenaon of Sevier and Hooks, was appointed lo accompany tho body of Representative Taft to his homo in Thurbcr. Sorgcant-at-A.rma Thompson will also accompany them. A committee of four, as honorary pall-bearers, was named, to attend tho funeral of Hr, Leigh. They are Representatives Rep-resentatives Kuchler,' Robinson) Hiller and Hone. And then tho House, in respect to I he memory of the dead men, adjourned until Monday. |
