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Show UTAH COUNTY MAN MEETS DEATH IN MINE i Miram V. Smith, a carpenter f ( Piiyu, was visiting at Silver GUv last Sunday, accompanied by hh-' hh-' wife and children, and the family were the guest of Colin McMur-phy. McMur-phy. Smith continued slowly in the direction of the new smelter, saying that lie would not get out of ' sight or hearing distance. He whs absent long enough to alarm his wife aud she could not see him. She (fuelled her fears, thinking he had gone, up to the town. But Smith did not return that night, nnd Moi day morning Mix. Smith notified Sheriff Hcuroid of Eureka and other olliceis of the district nml a Hxsliiuutiu i-carch wan CKtiihiiMlicd. At tlib old Picnic nliiif t signs were discovered that showed that some one had fallen 1 into the shaft. A man was lower 1 ed on a rope with a windlass, uud ! at the bottom 250 feet below the' collar, was found the mangled body , of Smith. After the body wns brought to the surface through the Swansea mine, it was found that the shaft had been covered in accordance witli the laws of the district, but 1 tho earth had caved in hum tinder the collar and a crtut of earth was left ou the surface. Smith is supposed sup-posed to have stood on this and nt once was precipitated to the bottom. Deceased leaves u wife uud three children and other relatives iu Puy-son. Puy-son. The body was ahlppcd to Pay-sou Pay-sou yesterday and will be buried there. |