Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-08-18 | Page 9 | Telegram Boy Killed by Lightning

TELEA RAM DOY i KILLED Hf DY U HINn Carrier Struck Down by Bolt That Splinters Tree Free Ronald Vernon Mitchell 14 newspaper carrier for or The Thc Salt Lake Telegram was as Instantly killed at o'clock yesterday afternoon by a bolt of or lightning The lad had a Q delivery route Inthe in inthe inthe the extreme western part of or town and was vcr very popular with his patrons Ho lie resided at nt 1199 lola Yesterday tho the storm i drove o him to shelter beneath a l I large tree on Orange street be between between between be- be I tween Second and Third South streets The Tho lightning struck the tree and the bo boy hurling him al almost almost almost al- al most ten feet awa away When residents rushed to the I scene the bo boy was wag dead and his clothing ablaze The trunk of or the tree was M splintered b by the tho bolt boL Patrolmen A A. II IL Rogers and Horace Heath removed the body hody to an undertaking parlor The bo boy commenced work for forThe forThe forThe 1 The Telegram last May and had hall proved pro himself a splendid young youn business man He Ho is Js survived sur I by his parents Mr and Onci Mrs 1 Vernon C. C Mitchell and md the following brothers and sisters I Leonard Howard Kenneth and Jed and Eudora and Laura