| Show the following communication relative to the death of george IL it galloway after lie ho had assisted in saving john le lee of heber city contains fuller particulars melancholy afraid than we have before received ramas KAMAS ICA MAS was PRAIRIE jan 12 1868 editor meus if you will print the following in iii the deseret NEWS you will confer a favor on the parents of the deceased also on his friends throughout the territory no doubt you have heard odthe of the bad sad case at leaskin least in eart part art but bui for fear that you have not I 1 will will send se nd a tail full account as far as it was possible to za ascertain certain the case relates to georgo george B R galloway son of charles and ann galloway residents of round bound valley in parleys park it seems that on the ath of january george B R galloway Will william fixin gibson and joseph warr started from bound round valley to kamas prairie rairie they had with them two yoke of oxen and a sled also a loose ox that was lame they came the first day about six miles from where they started and the ox would not go a step farther fart hery heri consequently they left him and went on to a small grove of timber and camped thinking the ox might be able to travel in the morning morn morning ing came and they took the cattle and went back but the ox could not or would not leave the place where he stopped the night before se so they all returned to camp intending to come on home and get help and go back and haul the ox on a sled when they got to their camp the owner of the ox wm win gibson thought he would take the ox an armfuls of hay to help to sustain difo life until they could come after him the next day but george B R galloway said he would sooner take the hay to the ox than to drive the team home about five miles from where they camped bo so he started with the hay for the ox and only having about half a mile to return with the hay he intended to overtake the team before they arrived home in kamas hamas prairie night coming on he did not come and being about half way from home to kamas prairie it was thought by the people that he had returned home to round bound valley he being a tough hardy young man they never thought he would freeze having only six miles either way to travel on a good hard crusted snow but on the morning of the esth gibson started back to ox with a team and help and on arriving at the mouth of the callon cation that leads out of kamas ikamas about two miles from the fort they found the body of george it galloway frozen to death they return edwith him to the fort in kamas the justice called a jury who held an inquest on the body and found round for verdict that george 11 galloway came to his death by freezing on the tha night of january ath 1868 in kamas ramas prairie his parents were notified of the death and his remains taken to bishop gardners gardeners Gard ners ward 1 on jordan to be burled buried 1 respectfully tard bard s trully GEO B D LEONARD postmaster kamas the concluding part of the letter relates to br dr galloways Gallo ways finding br dr lee getting out of the snow the facts of which we published at length on monday |
