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Show Meets Death In Accident at Eureka Melvin Mayberry Falls Sixty-Five Sixty-Five Feet in Grain Elevator and Lives Five Hours Afterward. After-ward. Melvin Mayberry mot a shocking accidental death it I Eureka last Saturday. Sat-urday. Ilii with a dozen other men had boon working for tho past two nontlis building n 50,000 bushel capacity capa-city concrete gialn elevator for Jesse Knight about 11 vu miles west of Eureka. Eure-ka. Tho elevator was n four compartment com-partment affair scventy-flvo feet high, similar In construction to tho one which tho same company had build for Oeorgo O. Robinson. Tho men had Just completed tho main structure, In. eluding the roor, and wero removing tho Inside scaffolding which was being be-ing taken out through it hole In tho roof. They let themselves down with a rope to samo plunk that formed a platform alx or eight feet from tho roof. Tho men had removed moHt of tho plnuk and Hcrshcl Walker was In-sldo In-sldo removing tho others. Mr. May. berry asked if ho should como In and help, and was told no. Evidently misunderstanding tho order ho let himself down on tho ropo and It Is thought that when ho renched where tho plank had been removed, ho lost nerve and slipped off tho rope. He fell cn feet, alighting on a cement ce-ment floor. Ho wns picked up unconscious, un-conscious, and Israel Anderson carried car-ried him to n bed. It was found that both feet and ankles wero broken and tho bono had protruded through one shoe. Tho lower end of his backbone was crushed almost to n Jelly and several other bouea wcro broken. John Woods came along with hia rock train Just na tlui accident happened hap-pened and ran his engine down to Eureka Junction and telephoned to Eureka for n doctor who arrived soon after. A local freight enmo by and tho doctor took his patient on tho ca-booso ca-booso to Eureka, where every thing possible was done, but ho gradually failed, and at 9:15 passed away. He regained consciousness soon after the accident and complained of great pain until relieved by tho doctor. Israel Anderson, who tolls tho story of the accident, had tho body embalmed em-balmed and brought It homo Sunday morning. Ho said that Mr. Mayberry was ambitious to becomo a good ear-, pouter and cement finisher, and that ho was thought tho world of by both tho workmen and those In chnrco of tho work. Melvin Moyberry was tho son of Mr. and Mrs. Abo Mayberry. Ho was 22 years of ago on tho ICtli or last May. A year ago on tho 2Cth of Juno ho was married to Miss Allco Street, whom ho leaves a widow with a baby about four months old. Funeral services were held In tho Tabernacle Tuesday afternoon. The house was well filled and many beautiful beauti-ful Moral tributes wero presented. Hlshop John Stoker of tho Fourth Ward presided and woa ouo of the 'speakers Tho other speakers wero: Israel Anderson, James M. Klrkham and I)r F. 1) Worlton. A solo was sung by Mrs. T F. Klrkham. Thr other musical numbers wero by thr Fourth Ward choir, o |