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Show clerk, Alexander Buchanan, called the meeting to order. Official announcement of the death of the two men was made by Representative Tolton. Representative Robinson of the special committee announced the plans so far formulated. It had been decided to place upon the s casket of Representative Taft a plate inscribed: "Hon. Seth Taft. A True Patriot From The Date of His Birth to The Date of His Death." It was decided to hold the memorial services Tuesday during the hour of Representative Rep-resentative Taft's funeral. Death came to two member?. of the legislative junketing party while on a trip to Bingham yesterday. While the train bearing the party "was backing down the mountain side at 5:30 o'clock over the Copper Belt line of the Boston Consolidated company, it was struck by a loose ore car and Clint B. Leigh, a well-known newspaper man, was thrown beneath the rails and Instantly killed, and Representative Seth Taft of Wayne county was so badly crushed that he died a short time later. From Jokes and laughter the emotions were in a few brief moments changed to sorrow. . Speaker of the House H. 8. Joseph narrowly escaped a similar death. But for the quick action of Representative J. P. Miller, Joseph would also have fallen beneath the wheels. Two Runaway Oars. The party was returning down the mountain side for home when the coupling chain on two ore cars broke loose and struck the other train. The persons killed were on flat cars sitting facing the direction in which the cars ' " : (Continued on page 4.) . '" ' ".. i ". ' . . HOUSE ADJOURNS OUT OF RESPECT TO THEIR MEMORY , Out of respect to the memory of Representative Repre-sentative Taft and Clinton B. Leigh, the House adjourned until Monday after a very brief session this afternoon. In the absence of Speaker Joseph, the chief , . ' ' .. ' ( ' ' ' ' ' '-. cial train oa nv:,:'h ts it h Mr. Taft to a fait Lfike he ;i'.l, but before it could be r.aje re-iy the injured man expired, " The remains of the two men were lent tome, arriving here early this morning. Mr. Lei-Vs bciy was taka to Lvas' unierUkmg jsrlors and - tat cf 2Ar. Taft to the J. W. Taylor establishment. When the train bearing; the bodies arrived ar-rived it was met at the depot by lar crowd. Amoa? those present were Rep-reientstives Rep-reientstives Hone, Kuchler, Cottam. Mm. Kuehler, L. O. Taft, brother of the Representative; John E. Ed t hill, a Senate committee clerk acting - as ergeant-at-arms for Miah Day of the Senate, and Sergeant-at-Arms John of the House. The two latter took charge of the bodies . Mr. Miner's Story, f . ; "I will never be able to forget the awful experience or drive the picture from my mind." aaid Representative J. P. Miller. "If we had gone a hundred hun-dred yarda more we would have gotten off the train to safety. This distaace would have landed us at the company's i : i BINGHAM TRAGEDY. (Continued from page 1.) r i I HON. SETH TAFT. 1 boarding-houses, where we were to take the stage back to the town. After we looked at the Silver Shield mine we went by stage up the mountain to the company's house. The work of taking the cap from the mountain was under way and that 's whst we were interested, inter-ested, in. , Coming Down the HUL j "We were going down a grade on the way back to town when it occurred. It was about 5:30 and we figured on getting get-ting back to Bingham in time for dinner. din-ner. The train was made up of a small engine and two flat cars. They were small cars that could be filled with two shovelfuls from the steam shovel at work on the mountain. There was no tender attached to the locomotive. There were six of us in the car nearest near-est the engine that was backing the train down the grade. Harry Joseph was sitting on the right hand side looking look-ing toward the town. I sat beside him. To my left was Martin Jensen talking to Bepresentative Meeks. Henri sat in the middle of this car. Superintendent Superintend-ent Cates of the Boston Consolidated sat on the end of the car faeing the men in the other car. On the second car facing us sat Leigh and Taft. Sent ator Brinkerhoff and Bepresentative Dorins sat at the farther end of the second car, looking down the mountain side. j Leigh's First Trip. "Talking across the intervening space Leigh was telling Superintendent Cates that it was his first trip to Bingj ham. .He said 'Mr. Cates, I was just telling Mr. Taft how much I am im pressed with your property and tha camp in general. I have written con siderable for the newspapers about thd I mines at Bingham, but this is the first time I have had the opportunity to visil the place. If I write more concerning them I will be able to handle the subt ject in a more intelligent manner.' "The shock eame without, an in slant's warning.. The engineer was looki ing in the opposite direction from which the cars came that struck the engine I am not sure that they were runaway cars. It is my opinion that they were being switched. For that matter thev .. . ... -.. .. . ' s -V -. : m 1 f ' ' :. ' ! : I -; t . . . .,-; so--.. . . -. . :.. . ' ' :. - : t .ri-; -, ; " I i .i.i... , i i CXTNTOlf B. LEIGH. I may have been attached to the engine when our train was struck. I noticed after the accident that they were jammed closely against the other engine. en-gine. I "Leigh was thrown forward and struck his head on the car in which I was sitting. The train was going at a very low rate of speed at the time, Mr. Joseph having asked the engineer to be very careful. Leigh 's body was thrown several feet away. It was found that bis neck had been broken and several ribs, crushed. I saw him gasp once, a shiver ran through his body, and he was pone. i Wayne eountr in the Legislature, was born in 1860 in the Ninth ward - of Salt Lake. He was a son of Bishop Beth Taft. In 1882 he went to Wayne county and engaged in , the ranching business, settling near Thurber. He ns -elected to the Legislature laig Ml and was one of the eight Demons in the lower house. He is survived by a wife and eight children and a brether. L. O. Taft of Provo, and a sister in Salt Lake. Mr. Taft 's home at Thurber is miles from a railroad or telegraph station. A mounted messenger is on the way to give his family news of the tragedy. L. O. Taft, his brother, eame here from Provo to care for the remains. Mr. Taft was loved and respected by a large circle of friends. came. , Th?ir. feet were hanging over the end of the car. ' The jolt took them off their seats and threw them beneath the wheels. The party was returning from inspecting inspect-ing the Boston Consolidated mines. Mr. Leigh was sitting on the end of the car and was faeing the engine, with his legs hanging over the track.-Next, to him sat Bepresentative Taft. Across the space and on the other ear sat Representative Rep-resentative J. P. Miller next to Harry Joseph. While on the left hand side of-Miller of-Miller camp Representative Martin Jensen Jen-sen and Representative Meeks. Ban Into the Train. " The train bearing the legislators was backing down from the mine. When within 500 feet of the end of the journey jour-ney and along the heaviest grade in the road, which runs from 7 to 10 per cent, two ore cars which had become loosened from a train higher up on the grade, broke loose. They had scarcely started when they smashed into in-to the engine on the legislative train. In a second. Leigh, who was facing Superintendent Cates and talking to him, lost his balanee and was thrown between the cars. His head struck the opposite car and then he fell on the outside of the rail. The fall broke his neck. His death came almost instantly, j Bingham at noon, had lunch and then went to inspect the Silver Shield mine. From there they went up the Copper Belt line to Boston Consolidated. On account of the tragedy the annual Press club dinner that was to have taken place at the Commercial club this evening, has been postponed indefinitely. indefi-nitely. The club today " appointed a committee to act with the legislative committee in making arrangements for the funeral of Mr. Leigh. A meeting of the eommittee was held at 10 o'clock this morning at the Wilson hotel. The Press club committee was composed of A. N. McKay, P. M. Cropper, Isaae Russell, Rus-sell, Paul Armstrong and Frank Eastman. East-man. Career of Mr. Leigh. Clint B. Leigh was one of the best known newspaper men in Utah and Kentucky. He came to Salt Lake from Kentucky in 1902 and was managing editor ed-itor of THE TELEGRAM up to last December, when he resigned and went to the Herald. Mr. Leigh was born in Humboldt, Tenn., February 25, 1865. He learned the printer's trade and went to Owens-boro, Owens-boro, Ky., where he was managing editor edi-tor of the' Messenger for years. From Owensboro he moved to Louisville, where he was employed on the Commercial, Commer-cial, Dispatch and Courier Journal in various capacities. Later he was managing man-aging editor of the St. Louis Press. He did a great deal of work at the Kentucky Ken-tucky State capitol as staff correspondent correspond-ent of Louisville papers- during the famous Jack Chinn session of the Legislature Leg-islature when the militia was called out to capture Chinn, and also during the stirring days of the great Goebel tragedy. Scene of Confusion. "We all hurriedly jumped to the ground. In the excitement we did not know how many had been killed or injured. Poor Taft, one car had passed over him, and he was wedged against one of the driving wheels of the engine. We used a large piece of sheet iron-for a stretcher, and carried him to the company's boarding-house. One of his legs was badly cut and crushed. The driving wheel had torn a large wound in his back, paralysing his spine. He was conscious, and said, 'Do you know, I thought that I was sitting in a rather dangerous position. I don't believe I am hurt so awful bad. but please give me something to ease the pain. I think my leg is hurt, isn't it! Yes, I thought so. Have you sent for a doctor, boyst I wonder how long it will take him to get here.' We gave him a glass ef water. He said, Thank you, that was awful good.' It was hard work to keep, cool. We knew he could live but a few minutes, but he did not seem to know it. Two doctors came up on horseback, but he died before they came, and was' conscious to the last. Joseph's Close CalL "Yes, if I had not caught hold of Joseph be would have been killed or very- badly . injured. He was sitting alongside of me when the shock eame. I had a very firm grip on the car with one hand. He waa sitting in an easy attitude. I kept him from being thrown by grabbing him by the back of the coat. After he left the car and saw what had happened, he ran to the boarding-house to telephone for a doctor. When Jie entered the house he collapsed, entirely unnerved." Speaker Joseph planned the excursion excur-sion for members of the Legislature who were to visit the 8ilver Shield mine. Louis Cates, superintendent of the Boston Bos-ton Consolidated, invited the party to visit the property he conducts. . j Members of the) Party. . I The party consisting of Speaker Harry Har-ry Joseph, Representative and Mrs. Harry Robinson, Representatives Seth Taft, J. P. Miller, Heber J. Meeks, Martin Jensen, C. R. Doriaa, John N. Henrie, Senator Alonaa Brickerhoff and Clint B. Leigh of JhavSerald, -reached ' 4 The Death of Taft. Representative Taft was sitting directly di-rectly over the rail and lost hos position the same' time Leigh did. Taft fell beneath the wheels. Speaker Joseph, who wus sitting on the opposite car and diagonally opposite Leigh, also lost his balance, lie was about to topple over between the cars and the wheels below, when Representative Represen-tative Miller instinctively grabbed .U-seph's .U-seph's eoat and jerked him back to safety. A shout from the party stopped the engine and in a moment they wcro at the sides of the dead and dying men. Leigh gasped once or twice when the men reached him, but he never moved. He lay alongside of the track where he had rolled after falling on his head. Speaker Joseph and Representatives Miller .and Henrie . were the first to reach Leigh's body. . To Rescue of Taft. Other members of the party ran to Taft. He was severely injured. . His ribs were crushed and his legs and thighs badly broken. He was unconscious uncon-scious but revived in a minute or more. He was placed on a piece of corrugated iron and taken to the company office, where a physician was sent for. He talked with the other members of the party and declared he was sorry that the trip bad come to such a sad ending. He did not expect death. Arrival of the Bodies. . Anangements-were-made-rfot A-P- . . '' ' ' ''- " '. . Knew and Liked Him. . Every politician in Kentucky knew Mr. Leigh and they liked him. During Dur-ing the days of the Goebel tragedy when feeling was high and the people of Kentucky uned up in factions, Mr. Leigh, although an avowed friend and supporter of Goebel, retained the friendship of the anti-Goebel people. It was this quality that made friends for him in Utah. He was everywhere known as a loyal man and a good newspaper man. It is doubtful if be had one enemy, and his death will bring sorrow to many. Nine years ago he married Miss Clarissa Pointer of Owensboro and she, with two children, Philip, 6, and Ned, S years of age, survive him. He has an unmarried sister living at Owensboro, two brothers, Robert and Charles in Chicago, and another brother, Ed O. 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