Show moses pratt lost his lif life e thursday grand central employed went into raise filled with powder smoke and was asphyxiated others have narrow escape hoses moses pratt is who ho has been I 1 ving in tintic gintic for several y ars lost his hie in the grand central in ne at mim mint moth at about 2 a clock do els last thurs day morning being asphyxiated wh i he entered the ra save a the 1100 level f folio alto ving th f flung it ing of a around ro ind of roles six or e ht lit of tae other men who were employed ed on the then n gh t shift were also overcome by the bad air wh ie they were bryin to rescue pratt and it is almost a I r that there were not other fatalities he the circumstances surround agthe afta deth th a are substantial ai a follows I 1 aratt had ass sted lafe I 1 le eterson terson the mach ne tie man in iut I 1 ut ting in a round of holes in the tle ra se about 80 feet above the 1103 level and after the t 0 so o men were ready to fire the shots pratt waa was sent do to the ma n level to fix the a i p pe so that the a r from the corn cam would mould clear the of the po ader smoke folio follo v rl the tiring of the shots it s ems thit he d d not leave the valve open as he should have done and after the explosion on of the po der he d s 0 ered h hs s mis take ai ax I 1 started to aa a up into th raise to fix th lip pp sa that the place would be cleared of th to der smoke and in proper cond tion hen the day shift men arrived some ho rs la later ter a feterson le terson attempted empted to stop pratt from from go gong n 11 q t to 0 tl the raise but the latter after pa paid d no a attention tante wn to the warn ing Peter Pet ersol soja then than started after his partner b bj ause h he 1 realized that ce vas d bange au fr from the foider smoke 11 lie e abound 0 d pr pratt att ous fro i the foyl air b bit it a a oie ie he could lot as assist gis t aa in fact it vas d aft cult f for ir P Pa patroon raon to make h s va vaa out of the rais and to dunmon help george wine the sa sn ft boss ivan harper archard chard neilson hoy boy layer laver james spar a thomas N aylor ld ward mard hutch son james laub john martin S las richard bupt john coombs and in fd fa t most of the men v aho vho ho were on the n shift NN worked acio cIly in an effort to rescue I 1 blatt before life was extinct but this could not be accomplished I 1 tactically all of these men suffered from the to 0 o v der smoke and I 1 foil oil a ar r se haveril veril of them biting having narrow escapes escapes from death aa As fast as the men were overcome their compan ons ong removed them to the station and sent them to the surface ard others took th ir p places abes in the he rescue work bupt coombs was sas not at th mine it the time of the a ciment but he nas as hastily summoned it N haq al un der derails his d reckon bo as s cured and carr ed into ohp the ra se thus giving the men pure a r A ah h ch enable enabled th n to a bring out the body of I 1 dr steel bailey who had been called to the mine worked for almost t 0 no o hours before thos who had been rendered by the bad a i nere finally out oi of dan er moses pratt was 27 yeara of age ile was well known throughout the il strict A wife and two ch ell idren him and the deceased also aas cwb br arthers here in lintio as ell as other relatives rel atves ves including a nother who nho lives in prove provo lite remains pp d to provo this his morn ng a by undertaker k N wallace and the burial took i ilace lace there this afternoon |