Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-25 | Page 4 | Drops Dead in Sewer Ditch

DROPS DEAD IN SEWER DITCH Laborer Expires of Dis- ease of the- Heart While at Work. . Robert Neblcar. a laborer, about 50 years' of age, employed on the gravity sewer, died suddenly about 9:30 this morning while working 1 nthe trench ' at Ninth West and Eighth North streets. The man went to work as usual this morning, and about the hour named was noticed to sink. to the bottom of the trench. Fellow-workmen at once went to his assistance and took the man from the trench, only to find that he was dead. - The body waa at once removed to the undertaking parlors of S. D. Evans, where an autopsy will be held this afternoon. As far as the examination of the man's body has gone, no bruises or other external Injuries have been found, and it is thought that the man died from heart failure, superinduced by heavy drinking.