| Show CHOPPED TO PIECES william openshaw meets with a horrible and fatal accident HE HB IS CRUSHED INTO A SHAPELESS MASS we have to record today to day another frightful accident by which a young man maa orthis oft fais city was brought to an untimely end at this morning the utah nevada train left for the west ha having vin g several freight cars in addition to the regular passenger coaches in which were about twenty passengers next to the locomotive was a flat car loaded with lumber and following this came a box car the train was about three miles west of this city and was nearing tho the brighton ward schoolhouse schoolhouse School bouse when the engineer eB mr alfred E R dyer noticed that the jarring jarr ing of the train was work ing the bumb lumber er loose one plank two by ten inches a little longer than the car was in danger of falling off and mr dyer gave the signal tour lour whistles to call the brak emana emans attention to it mr william openshaw Opens baw the brakeman hurried forward and was descending the front of the box car to where the lumber was when one end of the loosened plank went over the side fide and struck the ground the other end was driven with terrific force against mr openshaw Opens baw striking him in the back and almost CUTTING HIM IN TWO mr dyer and his fireman alma chalker were eyewitnesses eye witnesses of the terrible occurrence mr 0 openshaw I 1 shaws en body was crushed against age the end ead of the box car and as the plank was waa hurled out of the way was released almost immediately and ten tell to too the track between the cars the engineer brought the train which was running about fifteen miles per hour to a 74 fuu stop as quickly as possible and on going back to the place where mr open ha bod body diss disappeared L eared a horrible sight was witnessed e pl three cars care had passed over the body of the unfortunate man crushing it into A SHAPELESS MASS of flesh bones and blood part of the body had been dragged some distance and all of it horribly mutilated the legs were literally chopped up jup by the car wheels part of the centre of the body wp was torn out the head was waa practically cut off the brains oozed out through a gaping wound in the skull the whole being thrown together in a mass destroying all human form the remains of the unfortunate man maa were carefully gathered together brought back to this cit city and t taken aken to undertaker joseph win in T taylors where an inquest was held eld b by C coroner aroner george J taylor the verd verdict c ot of the j u ary ry being accidental death the deceased was a resident ies ident of the sixteenth ward of this city and was highly respected he had bad been employed as brakeman on the utah nevada for several years he was in the accident when conductor brown met his death by the overturning of a car and was slightly injured at the time nearly two years ago be married miss matilda webb and he now leaves a wife and one child an infant ten months old prior to the holding of the inquest the wife had no idea of the ter terrible calamity that bad befallen her husband sue slie was informed that he had bad met with an mel accident d ent but the nature was not stated an and d when after several hours of ago agony ny 8 she h e was given the whole truth her gr grief I 1 et knew W no bounds the deceased was 22 years of age having been born in the year 1865 in swinton lancashire england he be came to utah with his bis parents in 1874 his funeral will take place from the sixteenth ward schoolhouse school bouse at 11 am tomorrow to morrow wednesday an invitation is extended to the friends of the family to be present the bereaved family have the sympathy of the community in their hour of affliction |
