Show MET DEATH IN A HUGE john edwin fatal trip to sunnyside Sunny side coal camp Cast ledale young man of good mor 1 and habits wis the victim of a slide sunnyside Sunny side last friday the oung man john edwin petersen had been working for the past ten weeks at the range creek pump station seven or e miles east of Sunn side previous to that time he had been dav ing in the sunnyside Sunny side u but yielding to a feeling that he was safer outside of the mine he sought ou side work and obtained same at the pump station on thursday of last week th foreman antz orley and peterson concluded to go to sunnyside Sunny side the following da and as the snow upon the range between the town and the pump station was quite deep and trail unbroken chev spent a few hours in opening it up day they started for town with mr coriey in the lead and petersen following leading a horse about 30 fucet in the rear they had crossed the di ide and gotten down some 70 feet on the a est side of the range when wor ley heard ed shout lookout and on looking back all he could see was i mass of v hirling snow which missed mm a few feet in the cloud of snow I 1 could e neither the oung man or the horsey or neither could he locate them at the time he hurried back to the pump house and summoned the aid of ed s bi other dae and some of the timber men there the party found the young man about an hour after the accident occurred Hs was dead and filzen stiff he was taken back to the station and de was called up by phone and notified of the ace adert and a pirth sent out from there ith canvas and ropes to cover the body and carry it to the coal camp as impossible to move it by an conveyance ed s body was fourd lodged against d tree about feet below the point from where the caught him his right eh ai and hand were crus hed and a bad face and scalp wound were also received the bod reached sunnyside Sunny side saturday afternoon and on monday morning services wire held in the hall presided over by elder sam gould who paid a tribute to the excell ent character of the young man as did 1 other elders of the latter day saints church the body was th n brought to for interment reaching here thesda afternoon on wednesday ednes day morning the remains wee hid to lebi in the acal cemetery it 13 said that ed u brother dav e looked 0 ei the trail chuida Thu ida and warned ed not to attempt the trip on account of it not being safe mr peterson had just reached h s b he was the son of james M and mary petersen formbly of castle dale and he was born in this town H s conduct has always been above re and h s death is regretted bv a large ceicle of others besides his rela tives visiting brothers and sisters ac commanding comp anding the legains here were mr and mis andrew petersen of sunn s dr mr and mrs chas ray mr and mrs A peterson all of Sunn side mr and mr M J zeven of grand junction colo james petersen and james jensen of ephraim and verne powell of Sunn ysido |