OCR Text |
Show DR. HURON I . MEETSJ3EATH I Killed by Accidental Discharge H of Shotgun He Was Holding H Between Knees. CHARGE ENTERS BREAST I AND UPPER ABDOMEN Daughter, Who Is With Father, H Not Informed of His Death H at Once. Dr. Joseph Millcron, residing at 3.TT South Seventh East street, was killed instantly by the accidental discharge of a shotgun ho had been holding be-tween be-tween his knees while driving with his daughter, Louiso H. Millcron, in Par-ley's Par-ley's canyon, throe-fourths of a milo west of McGrand station, on the Den-ver Den-ver & Rio Grande line, Friday after-noon after-noon about. 3:45 o'clock. The daughter was immediately picked up by light en- gino Xso. CGI. in charge of Engineer ('. rowley, and taken to the Sugar House drug store, where her injuries, DR. JOSEPH MILLERON. H due - to the overturning of the k"".v were dressed, after which she was taken to her home. The body of Dr. Millcron was taken to the tin-dertaking tin-dertaking establishment of S.' D. Evan?. Dr. Millerou and his daughter left the city Friday afternoon for a drhe to Pharaoh's Glenn, the pretty littlo summer resort., of which he was half-owner half-owner and which is situated in Parley's canyon, and the doctor had taken a shotgun, which he was holding between his knees, for the purpose of shooting jaekrabbits nt the resort. At the point where the accident occurred, the road-way road-way runs along the Denver & Rio Grande railroad tracks and is narrow. Farther up the eanvou from the point. of the accident the railroad track is lost to view, owing to a curve. Horse Frightened. Just after Dr. Millcron had reached the narrow portion of the roadway light engine Xo. GUI. in charge of En-gincer En-gincer Crowley, swept around 'the curvo and the horse tho doctor was driving became unmanageable. Regardless of tho doctor's efforts the horso continued io back tho buggy tip tho hillside, where the vehicle overturned. Just be-fore be-fore the buggy overturned Engineer Crowley and his fireman. C. 13. Tracy heard the roport of a gun. Dr. Milleron wns thrown out of tho boggy and his daughter was thrown on top of hun, while the buggy was wrecked. Miss Millcron received in-juries in-juries about the head and face and Hu-gineer Hu-gineer Crowley, after running down the canyon to a safe distance from tho oncoming freight train further un tho canyon, sent. Fireman Tracy back for the young wouian and took her on tho ongine to the Sugnr House drug store. Engineer Crowle', when asked re-gnrding re-gnrding tho accident, said: "I was running ahead of local freight extra No. 597 and as we round-ed round-ed tho curvo we saw a man and a young woman in a buggy. Tho horso seemed to bo unmanageable and was backing the buggy down the canyon. T could not stop the engine for I know that the freight, was following. Tho horse continued io back tho buggy and finally cramped it in such a position that tho buggy was backing up tho hill-side. hill-side. "When "we were about forty feet from the buggy it overturned and tho man was thrown out with the young woman on lop of him. Hear ratal Report. jH "Wo heard tho report of the pin and when at a safo distance down the canyon I sent tho lircniau back to flag the freight and get tho young woman, who was injuroa. Wo placed her on board the cngino and brought, her to a drug store at. Sugar House. Tho buggy was somo distance from the railroad HBV tracks when it was overturned." The cliarco of ono barrel of the gun entered tho doctor's abdomen and tho pAV r.li:i ran if I ln qeiMinrl h.'irrcl almost t.OI'O HHI off his left arm. As soon as Miss Mil- lcron reached tho drug storo she lelo- BB phoned Mrs. Jenkins, her sister-in-law. BBB that her father had been injured by bo- BB ing shot while in the canyon and asked BBV thai ho be ent aid immediately. Dr. BBBJ A. A. ICorr was summoned and left im- BB mediately for tho sCeiio ot! tho accident. BB Dr. Kerr, after making an oxaminatiou, BB notified S. I). Evans, who received per- BVB mission from Dr. T. H. Heafty, secretary BBV of the: stale boar., of health, to remove BBBJ tho body, after which it was brought BKBJ city. BB Civil War Yotoran. . Dr. Joseph .Millcron waw born in Scioto coujfcy, Ohio. Octohor I. I -11', ami while BjBJ yet. :l ymmir man served with distinction BjBB "through the Civil war. Ho was an active BjBB member of th loeal Georpo R. .Maxwell BjBB post and for some tlmo prior nud up to flBH the time of his dath was medical dl- BjBB rector of the department of Utah. (3. BjBB A. it. He came to Uta.h ftoui southern BB Bal II t Illinois In 1S00. nntl resided In Sftlt Lake I 1 from then until the time of hln death. I t- Dr. Mlllcron saw acrvlco through thrco different and conaocutlvc periods of the I y Civil war. He enlisted first In Gibson I county. Ind., July 4. 1861. und was mus I tcrcd In as ti private In Capt. Thomna I Johnson's company IC of the Twenty- I. fourth redmcnt of Indiana volunteer in- I fan try. Colonel, afterward General Alvln I P. Hovey, was In command of the rcgl- I menu I In tho battle of Shlloh the regiment I "wns conspicuously engaged, losing many 1 ' officers and men. I At Pittsburg1 Landing, Private Mlllcron I rcculved hi nonorablo discharge, on ac- I count of sickness after the battle of I Shlloh. I He ro-enllsted May JO, 1663, n I sergeant In W. D. Lee's company A of tho Ono Hundred and Thirty-fifth regl- I mont of Indiana volunteer Infantry, and I was attached to tho Fourth corps of the ' army of tho Cumberland. I A&ain Discharged. I Mr. Mlllcron again was discharged at Indianapolis. September 29, 1864. on account of the expiration of tho term of onllstment. But ho applied for re-cnllsl-mcnt ngnln nnd Joined Capt. llcz Hlnk-xon's Hlnk-xon's Seventeenth battery of Indiana volunteer light Infantry, lie saw service In tho valley of Shenandoah under Sheridan, Sheri-dan, nnd after going to Baltimore, he went to Frederick City nnd then to Winchester. Win-chester. From Virginia his company was ordered to Indiana, and It was while cn-routo cn-routo that the news of tho surrender of Leo to Grant came. Sergeant Mllloron was mustered out of scrvlco July 1865. Immediately after tho war Mr. Mlllcron Mlllcr-on entered tho Chicago Medical college, graduaf.iK In I860. Soon after coming j to Utah, no waa appointed pension ex- . amlncr for tho stato under President Benjamin Harrison. Dr. Mlllcron was a member of tho Masonic, Ma-sonic, tho Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellow fraternities, and was also a mom-bor mom-bor of the G. A. It. No arrangements ' for tho funeral have as yot been made. llo Is survived by Mrs. Laura H. MII- leron. relict. MIhk Madeline Mlllcron of New York City and Mrs. Herbert Stanton of San Francisco, both of whom wcro formerly associated with the Bostonlans In opora: Mrs. A. J. Jenkins, wife of A. J. Jenkins, tho contractor, of this city, and Mlso Louise H. Mllleron of this city. Tho family Is prostrated. |