Show YOUTH KILLED AT MOON ION LAKE LAKE- nr BY LINE Howard Hovard Wardle D Dies Die i e s Installing Flood Light Buried Burled Tuesday Y The Moon Lake Reservoir project project project pro pro- took its first toll of human life Friday evening when Howard Wardle 18 son ISOn of Allie Atile and Eliza Wall Vall Wardle of Roosevelt was electrocuted by a volt line Mr Wardle was working for the T. T E E. Connolly C Construction Company Company Company Com Com- pany installing a flood light when the accident occurred Funeral services were held in Roosevelt Tuesday afternoon with int interment ent in the Roosevelt city cemetery Wrong rong Hook up Howard who was regularly employed as a truck driver on the Moon Lake project was doing electrical electric 1 work for only a tJ w days while his father Allie Wardle Wardle Wardle War War- dle who is the regular electrician on the project was Wall in Salt Lake City with his father Howard had considerable e. e experience with electricity elec helping his father on various vari van oils ous jobs Howard had finished installing a new flood light on the top of ofa a pole just before dark Friday evening to furnish light for a new shovel on the project The light was installed on the top of pole carrying a transformer fed by volt wires It seems seema that he must have gotten the wrong hookup hookup hookup hook hook- up from the transformer as it was reported that the globe burned burned burn burn- ed ou out t as soon a as he inserted Itin It Itin itin in the globe Just what C caused d him to get in contact with th the wires which caus caused d his death is unknown According According According Ac Ac- cording to Earl Knight a shovel greaser working at the scene of the accident Howard ward suddenly slumped and slid down the pole one spur apparently catching catch catch- catching ing to ho stop his bis slide aUde leaving him hanging in his safety belt It was Wag some thirty before before before be be- fore helpers could climb the pole and release him letting letting- him down downto to the ground with a rope Artificial Artificial Arti Arti- respiration and other means of resuscitation were tried for several veral hours fore he was finally finally finally fin fin- ally pronounced dead by Dr C. C S. S Evans camp physician Brought to Du The body was brought to Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- Du chesne Saturday forenoon to be cared for by the Roy A. A Mortuary while att attempts were made to locate his family who were all aU in Salt Lake City They were finally met as they passed through Duchesne Saturday evening evening even even- ing mg to Roosevelt and informed informed informed in in- formed of the tragedy Investigation of the accident was carried forward Saturday by County sheriff Arzy H. H Mitch Mitchell Precinct Justice Chester Lyman acting and coroners coroner's jury consisting of C. C E. E Pyne Harold Pyne and Albert Jones workers at the project They rendered a verdict of death through coming in contact with bare electrical wires while installing a a. flood light at the Moon lake dam The accident accident acci acci- dent was termed unavoidable Further investigation by the father Sunday verified the coroners coroner's coro coro- nors nor's findings Marks on the body Continued on page 8 Youth Killed At Moon Lake By Power Line Continued From Page 1 disclosed that both handy hands lJ had hod come in contact with wires causing causing caus caus- Jing J- J ing the full force forc-e of the shock to togo togo togo go through rough the chest and evidently evidently evidently evi evi- dently paralyzing the lungs and heart Funeral Services Funeral services were conducted conduct- conduct ed at the Roosevelt Ward Chapel Chap Chap- el ol Tuesday at p. p m. m after the body had lain in state since Monday morning a home of ot his parents The beautiful floral offerings which W were m banked about about about a- a bout the casket in the home and chapel as well as the large attendance attendance attendance attend attend- ance and the words of the speakers speak speak- ers attested to the esteem in which Howard was held by his family his friends and his fellow fello workers A large broken wheel composed of dozens of flowers stood at the head hlad of the casket as a tribute from the workers work work- ers at Moon lake The funeral services were conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted by Bishop Heber T T. T Hall Hallof Hallof Hallot of ot Roosevelt and were under the direction of the Roy A. A Mortuary Principal speakers were Willard Day RooseVelt Bruce Calder Roosevelt and a fellow tellow worker at the dam and Bishop Hall Music w was furnished bv by the Manwaring sisters Mr Manwell Man Man- ll and d Mr Jack Jack Wm Gagon dedicated the grave Friends of Howard who served as pallbearers were James Harmston Harm Harm- ston store Max o Owens wens Elroy Wilkins Clint Killian Jack Lundberg and Dee Orser Born in Roosevelt on April 23 1918 Howard has lived there with his parents all his life except when various jobs him elsewhere else else- where In spite of his rus young age he had had a a. wide experience in various lines of endeavor chiefly driving truck I Surviving are nu ms parents a a sister Mrs Mra Oral Larsen Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt and six brothers Ferel Wardle Wardie Wardle War- War dle die Yose Yosemite nite National Park California Aaron Wardle California and Pal Tal Darrell Van Buddy Jay and Larry Kay Wardle of Roosevelt |