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Show VETERAN CONDUCTOR OF SALT LAKE DIES Joseph B. McGonagle, Pioneer Pi-oneer Miner and Railway Man, Passes Away. i Joseph B. McGouhkIp, years oT ae. retired p.'ipsener conductor of ihe Southern South-ern iacitic railroad, died si id den 1- at 5 o'clock yesterday morning at his home in the Zimmerman apart merits. The end came just five days before lie and the members of the family were tn have celebrated cele-brated his eit,-ht y-se enth birt leU v. About' 2 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Mc Jonau'le ompln ined lo M rs. Mi ' Irm;-ude Irm;-ude of neuralgia in bis he;ol. He i ested uneasily for several hours and v-as seized with a severe recurrent attack of I be pain ar 5 o'clock. .Mrs. M 'tunable went to the Moor above to summon a physician, and. ret urn in k, found that her husband had expired. Mr. M-rjonale bad but recently re-luined re-luined from a trip to the San Francisco exposition and was In his usual eood hea It h up to t he time of hi a last brief iliness. Horn In New York City. Pecomber 5. 1 sjx, Mr. McOonaule went around t he Horn In a palling vessel in 1S49. landing in San Francisco. Me in rned his at ten -tion lo ininin and was for a number of years enau'ed In placer mining in Colusa a nil I' lace r count ies. fa I! for n la . At the becjnnint; of Ihe Ivil wnr he enlisted in company A. First California volunteer Infantry, In-fantry, serving throughout the conlllet. being mustered out in April. iS'l'i. liailroad construction was at thai time a principal Industry of the west, and Mr. M' f ;ona gle bega n running ft const i m i ion train out of Ti in kee, Cal.. then the eastern east-ern terminus of the western end of the Southern Pacitic. Me remained in active 'service of the company for t hlrt - three vears. for lor'i' time residing I" Ogden. and being rr-iired wllh nihrr veterans on a pension al the age of Since his retirement Mr. Mcdonagle bail resided at t be '.im merman a pa r I men t s. First avenue and F, street. Salt Lake. The snrvlvl iik members of the family are Ihe widow, Mrs. Mary K. McfJnnagle; two daughters. Mrs. J. C. f'lllmartln. Keno, Nev.; Mrs. tiny Mnnlgomerv, Salt Lake; t wo sons. .Joseph, a railroad man of St. Fouls, and Ceorge K., former city engineer of Suit l.nke. Mr, Md'.onagle was a member of the fJrand Armv of the Itepubllc an-l well known Ihroughoul the entire west- He was also a member of the llrst lodge of the Order "f Itallway Conductors ever formed In Nevada. Funeral arrangements will tint be announced an-nounced until Mrs. ilium rt In. who has been nntiiied by wire of her father's death, arrives . from Reno, |