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Show UlliJ MAI IS KILLEJJf BLAST .Stranger, Who Secures Work in Oregon Short Line Quarries, Quar-ries, Meets Quick Death. TYireo hours after he had applied for work and was given it an unidentified man was instantly killed in a rock slide at the Oregon Short Line gravel quarry in North Salt Lake yesterday afternoon. after-noon. Loosened by a blast of giant powder fired a few minutes before, a great mass of rocks and earth on which the stranger and E. JL Lonorgan. foreman of the quarry, wore standing began sliding slid-ing down the almost precipitous hillside, hill-side, Loncrgan yelled a warning to his companion and then scrambled to safety, escaping tin; hurtling mass of rock -by a narrow margin. The other man was caught before he could drop 'nls nick. A great boulder struck him In the back and sent him sprawling Into the thick of the avatancho. He was seen to rise, and clutch frantically at a. rope suspended sus-pended over the ledge from tho brow of the hill. He missed the rope by inches and went down under the roaring mass with a shrill scroam of terror that rose above the the noise of the grinding, crashing rocks. Marshalling 'nls quarrymen, the foreman fore-man effected a quick rescue of the body at the bottom of the slide. The neck was broken, several ribs were crushed, the right leg and the right arm broken In several places.' Tho police were called and Patrolmen Griffin. Potter, Bcynon and Conyers went to the scene In the police auto. Diligent inquiry and search of the dead r man's clothes failed to disclose a single clew that might lead to tho- establishment establish-ment of his idonllty. Harry Jones, an i employee of the quarry, said ho met tho i man In Ogdcn several days ago and bought him a. meal and a hed. Again Monday he mot him in Salt Lake and suggested that he apply at the quarries quar-ries for work. The stranger appeared at the quarry shortly after noon and asked Foreman Lonergan for work, saying he wus an expert powder man. He was given a position and after working about tho pit of the quarry for two hours he accompanied ac-companied the foreman to thoxbrow of the hill and .assisted him In Betting off a blast. The blast failed to fully dls-I dls-I lodge a large mass of rock and Lonergan Loner-gan and t'ne stranger set to work with picks and crowbars to finltfh tho job. The body was sent to tho morgue of O'Donnell & Co. The coat worn by the strangor bore the mark of a clothes shop in Little Rock, Ark. There were no papers pa-pers nor personal effects of any nature. na-ture. Tho body is that of a man -10 years old, apparently of Swedish extraction, ex-traction, or sandy complexion and five feet ten inches tall. |