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Show CONSTRUCTION WORKER DIES AFTER FIGHT ON MAIN STREET Eldon Miller, 35, of Parowan, died in the office of Dr. Herbert B. Fowler, about 1:30 Thursday morning, of massive coronary thrombosis and acute alcoholism, alcohol-ism, about an hour after being in a "gang fight" on Main street, i Ten men were involved in the fight, which lasted for ten or fifteen minutes before Marshal Phil Roberts and Marshal Leon Williams "broke it up." An autopsy showed evidence j of previous heart ailments, and J a coroner's jury composed ofl M .E. Handlev. R. C. Hedrick and G. L. Williams, with Justice O. C. Koch as coroner, found death was caused by the heart ailment and alcoholism, "with no evidence of external violence." vio-lence." According to witnesses, five men from Minersville and South Milford became involved in an argument with some employes of the Utah Construction Company, in the Sportsmen's Club, a few minutes before closing time. After vainly attempting to settle set-tle the argument, Mr. Rigby, proprietor of the club, insisted that he "wanted no trouble" and ordered the men out of the club. A short while later they were all engaged in a series of fights, and during the altercation alterca-tion Miller fell or was knocked down. Some witnesses say Miller Mil-ler was not struck, while others state he was "knocked down and kicked." When it became evident that Miller was in serious condition, Dr. Fowler, who was en route home from a call and had witnessed wit-nessed part of the altercation, administered first aid and a heart stimulant. The stricken man was removed to Dr. Fowler's Fowl-er's office, where artificial respiration res-piration was administered, and efforts made to revive him. He died about 30 or 40 minutes after being taken to the doctor's office. of-fice. When Marshal Roberts was unable to quell the disturbance and threatened by the brawlers, he summoned Marshal Williams to assist him in arresting the men. Involved in the altercation were Ray T. Stapley, Oliver G. Wilson and James N. Hall, besides be-sides Miller, all employes of the Utah Construction Company engaged en-gaged in lengthening the railroad rail-road switching tracks at the north end of the Milford freight yards; Charles R. Pryor, Os Myers and Bob Dotson of Minersville, Min-ersville, and Don Alger and Bill Thompson of South Milford. Witnesses Wit-nesses stated that Mr- Alger was inadvertently drawn into the fight when he objected to one of the participants kicking a man who had been knocked down. All participants in the fight appeared in Justice O. C. Koch's court Thursday afternoon to answer complaints of disturbing the peace. Mr. Alger will enter a plea Friday afternoon. The others entered pleas of guilty and each was fined $50 and sentenced sen-tenced to 30 days in jail, with the jail sentence being suspended suspend-ed on condition they "keep out of any kind of trouble" for 30 days and stay out of pool halls for. the 30-day probation period. Mr. Miller's body was removed re-moved to Parowan, by relatives, early Thursday morning. Survivors Sur-vivors include an aged mother, two children, and one brother. |