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Show Mies of Three Missing L I Miners Found Wednesday from 1945 to 1949 in the Lark LDS ward. He had worked at the Lark mine for 14 years. Surviving are his widow; a son Wayne Leland Nielsen, 11- two daughters, Virginia Lee Nielsen, 7, and Barbara Jo Nielsen, 2; his parents, Mona; two brothers, Russell and Milton Nielsen, Mona, Mo-na, and three sisters, Mrs. James Lofgren and Mrs. Vern Mc-Cleery, Mc-Cleery, and Mrs. Myron Ensign, Hawthorne, Calif. II o5.jay M-arch for three I ni miners in the Lark mine L United States Smelting LUI1g and Mining Co. ended tiesday afternoon when their jrt were discovered on the I (t. level of the mine, land were Robert Gordon LrhoftVr, 38, electrician fore- Leland David Nielsen, 38, I, operator, and Clyde W. Libun, general mine fore-l.e fore-l.e men, with two others, I trapped in the mine July then fire broke out. The es of the other two, Horace t;n Seal, hoist operator, and I n G. Thomas, surface fore-l fore-l were found July 17 in the I. .jtte tunnel near the Lark ROBERT GORDON MEYERHOFFER Robert Gordon Meyerhoffer was born Feb. 19, 1913 in Lark, a son of Robert Fredrick and Phoebe Davis Meyerhoffer. e three were found within jrt distance of the Lark shaft r.e deeper level in about four : of water, reported Oscar A. ser, industrial relations man .'.tlii-n and Meyerhoffer were j about 3 p.m. but because :.::iculty in getting the bodies i the water and up through i.;ne it was after 5 p.m. be-they be-they came to the surface. Augustson's body was found : 6 p.m. '.: Seal and his son-in-law, Nielsen, entered the mine 11 p.m. July 15 to do some ..ttiiance work. When the was discovered they were j red out of the mine. !: 4 a.m. Augustson, Meyer-:r Meyer-:r and Thomas entered the :t to help the two men who He attended Lark schools and was graduated from Bingham high school. He married Melba Bennett Sept. 27, 1940, in Bingham. Mr. Meyerhoffer was a member mem-ber of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. An employe of United States Smelting Refining and Mining Co. for the past 17 years, he was an electrician foreman and a member of the company's troubleshooters squad. Surviving are his widow; his mother; two daughters, Jane Meyerhoffer, 7, and Gail Meyerhoffer, Meyer-hoffer, 4, all of Lark; two brothers, bro-thers, Alvin M. and Ralph J. Meyerhoffer, Los Angeles, and a sister, Mrs. Stella Gubler, Salt Lake City. :: ordered to open a flood on the 1000 foot level and Ml of the mine. the initial phase huge blow-were blow-were installed to blow fresh -'to the mine and two large i of rescue men working oxygen masks probed -gh the smoke and gas fill-'.jnnels fill-'.jnnels for the three men. 'n searching for a week it apparent the men must be 100U ft. level as all pos-s pos-s places they could have gone : been investigated. -ping operations on the filled luOO ft. level were "id and are continuing. fire appears to be quiet is somewhat controlled, but ftill are battling it, Mr. er said. CLYDE W. AUGUSTSON -yde W. Augustson was born :;15, 1909, in Park City, a son Carles and Rhoda Lulu Wil-' Wil-' Augustson. moved with his family to Lake City at an early age - attended schools in Salt Lake ' He was graduated from the vwty of Utah college of ending en-ding in 1932. married Lucy Olsen in Salt :'ec'ty May 27, 1933. Augustson was employed "ngham by United States :J me Refining and Mining V frn 1?33 to 1937 and had " JmPloyed at the Lark mine oreman and assistant mine wnntendent since 1937. h,iV'ice Pident of Lark club. giving are two sons, Clyde ; Augustson, Jr., 15, and Rentier Ren-tier v5 Au8ustson, 12; a dau-. dau-. Vane Augustson, 2K; his rT,Via' Calif- tw0 ' Charles Cyril August- agefi ark Augustson, Los abfTc "?d a sister Mrs- Cle0 y'-Salt Lake City. LELAND DAVID NIELSEN !Pt ?n DiaVid Nielser was born t'"- 1912, in Nophi, Juab 11a pa s,on of David and Ro- Russell Nielsen. He ident his early life in Mona gh srt g,raduated from Juab jI in Ncphi" ' ixk"3clson, had resided in i Vin-e married Jes-Sali Jes-Sali T'a 3eal- Oct. 15, 1937, susCkt- tcmPle, Church of He of Latter-day Saints. Pt. frr, ,aSit- Sunday school ff0ni 1943 to 1945 and supt. |