| Show the fatal accident at west weber WEST WEBER R july 26 editor junction it again becomes my painful duty to report an another other sad accident the residents of west weber met at the school house on the we of july at 10 to celebrate the day the meeting was called to order by president ejnor hart hymn sung prayer by robert telford prest hart delivered a speech on the trials of the saints what they had passed they anay have to pass through and their eventual destiny john brown delivered an oration H U D peterson had just tak tah taken en the stand when some boys outside and about sixty feet from the north end of the meeting house discharged somei powder confined in a ring the ring was about two and a half inches in diameter two inches deep and half an inch thick A flat piece of iron was placed on the ground tho the ring put in tho the centre filled half full of powder an anvil placed on the top of the ring the powder being ignited by a paper tuse onte ente entering ring a li hole hoie oie ole or notch in the bottom of the ring which had been discharged seventeen times that morning 0 the consequence was the bursting of the ring a piece of which I 1 afterward saw measuring about two by one and a half inches flew towards the schoolhouse door on the step of which sat a little boy whose name was william wood aged five years five months and t twelve elv 0 days it struck him on the left collar bone glancing into the neck cutting a gash two inc ine inches hes square and severing the jugular vein thence glancing into the doors doorstep ep where it was found by thomas gibson the boy died in three minute minutes q unlike the ath of july our deliverance eranee was waa not obtained at the cannons mouth or by the explosion of powder and therefore in my humble opinion ought to be discarded as not necessary in the celebration of the of july especially with ench a apparatus p as the above A messenger was sent to ogden immediately for the coroner but lie he could not be found in the meantime the body was removed to its former residence H D peter peteri 1 son justice of the peace relied at the house of chas W wood the following is the verdict as delivered by the jurors TERRITORY OF or utan UTAH weston precinct weber co an inquisition at charles W woods in Weston precinct weber county on the of july A D before H D peterson justice of the peace in weston precinct in said county upon the body of william wood son of charles W wood aged about six eix years there lying dead by the jurors whose names are hereunto su subscribed the L said faid jurors upon their oaths do say that the body lying before us came to his death by being struck by a piece of an old hub box accidentally bursting by the explosion of powder being half filled fired in honor of the celebration of the of july by one hyrum H y rum hardy though the accident ac according cordin 9 to evidence being purely accidental we cannot too strongly condemn the use of all such similar contrivances on public occasions as being dangerous to life and limb and aud should in our opinion be forever discarded in testimony whereof the said brors jurors have hereunto set their lid ild bands hands the day and year aforesaid JAMES F HUNTER hunten HUNT I 1 1 I 1 A C F ai I 1 D jurors u r 0 rs ANDREW nowman BOWMAN H D PETERSON PE denson TEnsoN justice of the peace acting coroner SATELLITE osden junction |
