Show TRAGIC DEATH t Co Col Theodore Bruback fall 15 Jf feet in Judge Daly mine and breaks his neck neck Was Was in ins inspecting w S 'S r i the property A very fery tr ic and cruel fate fatek f k F was that which befell Col The Theodore Theo Theo- f v dore Bruback one of Utah's prominent pro- pro 1 citizens at the tho Daly- Daly Daly I Ir r mine luino at Par Park k City Thursday after- after J r noon Mr l Bruback came up i I 7 T Thursday urs ay morning to inspect the he mine rome mine in 10 which he was interested f and after havin having dinner with 1 Foreman John the two started out They had inspected thoroughly the workings on the tunnel level and then went down downto 1 to the 1400 level They were in inthe inthe inthe the west drift on tho the back led ledge e and comin coming to what is known as ss the May raise about feet from the station Mr Bruback I expressed a desire to go up and see what work had been boen done there Mr tried to dissuade him from such an idea that there was nothing new now to be bo seen The gentleman persisted persisted per per- J however and und started up the ladder did not go goon 0 on un account of an injury to his arm which he h had d received in the tunnel tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel the day before but stood at atthe Jo the foot of the ladder waiting for fors s his companions companion's return BROKE HIS NECK f When Bruback rub ck had bad gone from 12 to 15 feet as 23 judged by Mr Mi i there thero was a seconds 1 i silence and the Colonel came plunging headforemost down the raise He struck on the iron rail r of the track on his head breaking his neck nock and makin making a fatal wound on his head hastened for help at once and took James JameR Shields and Joe Holland back to where Bruback Bruback Bru Bru- Bruback back lay dying He lived about twenty minutes after the fall A doctor was telephoned for and LeCompte LeCompte Le Compte hastened with all possible le Ie speed to the mine mine but his services were not required CAUSE OF OP DEATH While the exact cause of the accident will never be ascertained tit lit it is known that Bruback was sub subject to fainting spells and it may i ibe be that he was overtaken by one while on the ladder TAKEN TO THE CITY CUT A special R. R G. G W. W train came up from Salt Lake and the corpse was WILS taken to the city accompanied by and Mike Hennessy Colonel Theodore Bru Bruback received received re re- his military title from the hands of Governor Wells VeIls who appointed him lieutenant colonel i- i on his staff He was born in Pittsburg Pa and spent hit his early life in in that state Ho lie was educated duca ed in the tho common and high schools of Allegheny county Pa and graduated from the lion Iron City college collego in 1866 A year after his arrival in Utah he ho secured secured- control control control con con- of tho the Sanpete railroad which was constructed in 1882 Ho He was wab elected president and made mado it a n standard gua guage e line lino He Ho built a branch to the Morrison coal coalmines mines and Dd later built another to the brown stone quarries at Mount Moun Nebo 1 41 |