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Show FATAL ACCIDENT. A deplorable accident took place, yesterday evening, about the hour of five o'clock. John Charles Dalton, a sixteen year old son of Mr. John L. Dalton, was driving a heavily loaded team into the Z. C. M. I. yard, through the Fourth street gate, when some sacks of sugar on which he was sitting slipped, throwing the youth to the ground, but without hurting him. Apprehending that the team might run away the boy went to the equines and grabbed a hold of one of the animals. The horse, however, threw him down violently and ere the unfortunate youth had time to gather himself up, the two right wheels of the wagon had passed over him, breaking his dorsal spine in the small of the back. Employees of Z. C. M. I. hurried to his help at once, lifted him up, and conveyed him on a litter to his home, three blocks east of Main Street. The parents of the lad were at once informed of the sad occurrence, and their sorrow and grief evoked deep sympathy in all the bystanders. Surgical attendance was procured in the persons of Drs. J. D. ?? and T. E. Mitchell, but it was all in vain, and after a couple of hours or so, of most painful suffering, the boy breathed his last. His dying words were, "I am going; good night, goodbye." His death occurred at 8:30 p.m. The afflicted parents, who but recently lost two children by the measles, have the hearty sympathies of the community in their sorrowful bereavement. The deceased, son of John L. and Elizabeth ?? Dalton, was born at Salt Lake City, June 6th, 1866.-Ogden Herald Aug. 6th. |