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Show WENT OVER PRECIPICE. One Boy Killed, Another Injured, While Mountain Climbing. Los Angeles. John Freltas, aged 17, was killed, nnd Joseph Schultz. nged 19, was injured in a wild run down tho sldo of Mount Wilson on Sunday. Tho two young men, with n third companion, had ascended the mountain early In tho morning from Los Angoles, and woro warming cof fco near an Ice slldo to tho north oh sorvatory, when Froltas slipped In the snow nnd plunged over the edge of .the gorge. Ho slid for sonic dis tnnco and then struck a rock and bounded somo distance, striking hit head on another rock. His body rolled COO feet down tho side of tho mountain moun-tain nnd lodged In n mass of rock Schultz and his companion ran along tho clgo of tho precipice, looking for a place to descend. Schultz started down, but slipped and rolled 300 feet, finally lodging in n treo. Tho third member of tho party went for help, and Schultz was rescued from his perilous position. Frolta's body was found, hut It was Imposslblo to get It to tho top of tho mountain, and it had to bo taken down and out ot Gabrlol'fl canyon Into Pasadena. His neck wns broken. Schultz was badly Injured. |