Show PECULIAR ACCIDENT A CC IDENT IS FATAL Bo boulder Bon jilder lder crashes down mountain i side dealing del death ith in ill ltd its awful career an accident nt at the big dam of tho the beaver River power company fjosne time night which calese caused d tile the death of ralph hurst and injured verr ver non valentine the two boys were sloop f ing in a tent just below the lam some timo lima during the night n largo large rock camo came crashing down the mountain side bide and struck tile tent Valen valentine valentina tind wits was sleeping ping on tile tho upper hill ride and the clio rock which evidently bounced just boford st striking dising tho the tent merely touched him in passing inflicting a rather seri ii erious olis wound 1 young fiirst IIi aboa 1 was sleeping ping in the rame came bed was struck belicia tile the right ear and probably killed instantly there are several thugs col concerning corning the which will never nm or be known and one of these is what aliat time it occurred tile only other people at the dam I 1 were young valentines father and moth mother er and when they got up at six bix yesterday morning they saw that the tent in which tile tho boys boya were sleeping was waa torn down they went to hinves cigale adf and y fa fund found valentino Vulon tino unconscious and bursts dead g the valentino lentino I 1 buy boy can remember n nothing of what happened but from tile the position of the body and tile the nature of the in n juries it I 1 is a emp supposed posed that ralph I 1 I 1 it I 1 jtb v i vaa r 0 n 0 f t ohp I 1 i 0 brain braid resulting from the blow on oil tile the backof the head bead tile the skull was frac i cured and a few scratches Bc inflicted on the face but othor otherwise the body was unscathed scat hed A peculiar thing about the accident is is I 1 how the rock aps ever started in it iaci awful course the hillside where th the rock started from is densely covered with underbrush and it it seems that nothing short of an earthquake could have started the death dealing missle from its foundation it would seem that the angel of death ls is ever on the lookout for the choicest of our loved ones ralph hurst huret was a young man of whom the whole town way was proud ho graduated this spring from tile the beaver academy and would have entered college this fall in his deatti death the world is probably cheated out of a great man ralph was born at greenville jan 7 1892 1800 2 A few months after his birth tile tho family moved to beaver and have resided ed here ever since this sad affair has cast a gloom over oer the entire town and the hearts of the people go 90 out in sympathy to the bereaved ed family 11 funeral services will bo be held at the hurst rev benco tomorrow afternoon nt at two |