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Show WORD QUICKLY REACHES OGDEN Special to Tlic Tribune. OGDEN, Dec. 5. The announcement of the death o'f David Eccles was received In this city at 9:50 o'clock tonight, the information coming through the pollco department. de-partment. The two eldest sons. David, .Jr.. and Lcroy, who were at the Orphcum theater, were the first persons notified, and they left for Salt Lake on a special Bamberger train. Although the other sons and daughters were told immediately the information was withheld from Mrs. Eccles, She has been finite 111 for five days and It was feared that the shock might hav.o serious results. At midnight her condition was reported as favorable as could be expected. Telegrams were sent to sons and daughters who are out of the city. Tt required only a fow minutes for the news to spread throughout the business district, the first reports being received with incredulity. Mr. Eccles had passed much of tho day In Ogden and been seen on the streets by several hundred persons. per-sons. He had never appeared In better health and this made the report difficult to believe. William Moyes. A. R. Uey-wood Uey-wood and others who had known Mr. Eccles Ec-cles ever since he took up his abode in Ogden were at a loss to comprehend any disease which could have caused his sudden sud-den death. They, as well as Dr. Rich, said that to their knowledge he had never been subject to any form of heart trouble. trou-ble. As president of more than twenty banks and largo corporations In Utah. Idaho and Oregon, "Mr. Eccles had assumed as-sumed a place in the financial world which will mako his death felt throughout through-out the entire west. |