Show accident fon cottings jottings Jot tings correspondence feb 1895 we have jast adjourned our quarterly conference which baa been in cession two days here in ephraim besides visitors from the various wards of sanpete stake of zion we were also with the pre sense of apostles brigham young and john henry smith who gave much wholesome instructions to the saints immediately on kneir arrival by the R V train friday evening they were conducted to the academy hall where they found a large assembly of young people awaiting them in the capacity of the students which havo regular meetings every friday evening and are generally treated to some excellent lectures on scientific subjects mostly of a historical nature this time the apostles apost lea held out to the j young people the importance and bene fits of an education based upon the sure foundation of a true religion A meat serious accident happened to mr albert Thomps rn of thia place who was assisting in running the new roller mill in gunnison field the young man was replacing a belt in the machinery while the mill was running when hia foot slipped whereby his left arm came in contact with the bearings gea rings and became fearfully manelea in the cog wheels before assistance came to his relief and liberated him from his peril ous position the accident occurred about rpm on wednesday the ath dinst and a dispatch was immediately sent to ephraim to hia father mr niels thompson who is one of the owners of iha mill and he had mat twenty minutes in which to find dr casady and with him tase the evening train for Hu naison the jsn showed a remarkable degier of nerve and fortitude under the painful ordeal he was pasing through he is new feeling better than under such circumstances could be expected and there is fair hopes that under the treatment of the doctor that the abiri ariri will be saved as the bone ia not broken though flesh of the upper part of the arm on the under side ia nearly torn away another sad aclair is the death ot eisha B Ste yens a jonm man 0 about 33 years who died saturday morning dinst after a lingering leaving a wife and three small children to mourn the loss of a kind lather and husbard hus baud while abe whole community in him will miss a good citizen and brother in the church what adds to the distress ot this ia the fact that the father of the departed had son taken anav very suddenly ab mt tour years ago by falling from a load of grain which he was hauling home from the field by accident he broke his spine and died leaving a wife and three small children the aged father has thua loat hia anly two sona in the prime of their lives we have had considerable sickness among atre small children already in the present year and par ants have consigned eight little corpses to the silent grave |