Show TERRIBLE TRAGEDY how a brothers carelessness caused his sisters death A fearful accident occurred at moroni sanpete county last sunday afternoon whereby a little girl by the name of marx was accidentally shot A conductor anthe S P V railway gave the mechi following account of the tragedy it seems that the unfortunate girls brother philip marx had been but hunting having with him a team and wagon when he returned home his older sister tillie went out to meet him taking his rifle from the lagoa he offered it eister with the request that she carry it to the house for him sue however to louca me gun and asked her brother if it was loaded in a careless offhand off hand manner which seems to be his custom he answered her that there was no load in the gun and again urged her to take it in the house losing all fear of the weapon upon her brothers assurance that it was harmless she took it threw it carelessly over her shoulder and sauntered into the house just as she stepped into the door her little juister who was standing near the cupoo area was heard to remark that she would get a piece of bread and preserves these proved to be her eastwards last wards for just as the knife was thrust into the bread the sharp report of a rifle rans out upon the air and a little girl fell dead without a groan amidst the terrified shrieks of her now half maddened sister when the smoke from that fatal shot cleared away a fearful sight met the horrified gaas of those spectators which no pen can deuribe de cribe and no mind can imagine unless it has experienced similar scenes stretched upon the floor weltering in her own blood lay the lifeless and almost headless body of the unfortunate child the floor cupboard walls and ceiling were smeared with blood and brains mingled with particles of skull and locks of hair which the leaden messenger of death had strewn ruthlessly about was immediately summoned but all to no avail and death was instantaneous it baa found that the hall had entered at the upper part of the forehead and as the childs head was bent downward had ranged toward the base of the brain tearing the upper and back part of the head to atoms it seems that just as tillie the girl who carried the gun entered the house the hammer of the weapon caught the door frame and drew it back far enough to canse the fatel df as recorded above the parents and other relatives are almost heartbroken over the dreadful catastrophe and the whole city seems to be wrapped in gloom the funeral at 10 yesterday morning solemn |