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Show LARGE ROCK KILLS WORKER INSTANTLY Miles C. Blackett, Foreman of Wasatch Grading Company Is Accident Victim Miles C. Blackett, 41, Springville, was Instantly killed Wednesday morning shortly before 10 o'clock while working in the road construction construc-tion gang of the Wasatch Grading ronipany of Provo at Ked Narrows, a short distance from Thistle in Spanish Fork canyon. Death was instantaneous. The body was sent to the Wheeler Un-dertaklnK Un-dertaklnK parlors at Springville on a Denver and Rio Grande Western train passing the place of the accident acci-dent shortly afterwards. Mr. Blackett was foreman of the construction crew building a new state road through Spanish Furl; canyon. A blast just set off to remove re-move part of the mountuin side had covered the railroad tracks with a large amount of dirt and rocks. To clear the tracks for the waiting D. & It. G. W. west bound train No. 1, the entire road crew was . set to work. Mr. Blackett was stooping over, according to reports from the scene of the accident and was fastening fast-ening a chain around a large rock when a cluster of rocks frozen together, to-gether, about three feet in diameter, fell about four feet from the mountain moun-tain side. The rocks struck him in the back of the neck and on the shoulders. Mr. Blackett never uttered a sound or a groan and was dead as his working men rushed, to his assistance. assist-ance. An Investigation of the injuries s the body arrived at the undertaking under-taking parlors disclosed that the right side of the skull had been crushed and the right shoulder had ben broken. The body was brought to Springville Spring-ville by William Wright of Springville Spring-ville and F. B. Hutchinson, Jr., of Spanish Fork, members of tie road crew, . Mr. Blackett attended the Black Hawk annual dance at Springville Tuesday night and left his home for the road camp shortly before 8 o'cloeki Wednesday morning. He had been foreman of the Wa-aatch Wa-aatch Grading company during the past two years but had worked for the company for several years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Hattle Blackett. two sons and one daughter, Leon, . Fred and Mlrl Blackett; also one brother and two sisters, Vlao Blackett and Mrs. Joseph Harmer of Springville and Mrs. John Carter of Spring Canyon. Funeral services will be held in the Springville Fourth ward csapel Sunday nt 1 o'clock with Bishop Hilton A. Robertson in. charge. Interment In-terment will be in the Evergreen cemetery. |