Deseret Evening News | 1897-10-23 | Page 2 | Small Boy's Sad Fate

ML S BOYS SAD FATE Willie Riley a TwelveYearOld Lad ic by a Stet Car WAS PLAYING IN THE POWER HOUSE Bom Ona Stunted lh Cnnno d Ito wu Caught ami e nulicd tu Drath Lnder the heel A most shocking fatality occurred nt the power bouse of hte Salt lake City llatlrond company at 3 oclock this afternoon The violIn was little Willie RIley who lUcd with Mrs Carrol his grandmother at C2 sate street I appears ap-pears that he with bee or three other mal boy entered the power house unobsered and commenced pla > lng with the cars The presumption I I that they got on the construction car put on the trolley turned on th current cur-rent and started The car ran about forty feet Willie either Jumped off or was thrown off and caught beneath the wheels where he was crushed to death The other lads ran away and have not been Been or heard of since The employes 6f tho power house were spedlly attracted to tho car which pedly had to lift from tlto hope body by means of mtchanla con trl > nnces The little chap Ilvrt Ions enough to give his name and adheres His father Is I dead nnd his mother laIn la-In California Ills body taken to IStonseacIrlohlng lahlohmnt whr heW an Inquest will doubtless be