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Show OLD MINER KILLED. Peter E. Williams Carried Around a Wheel nt Mammoth Mine nnd His Neck Broken. Mammoth, Utah, Aug. 0 An accident acci-dent at the Mammoth mlna heie this afternnn resulted In tho deith of Peter H Williams, ono of tho oldest miners of the Tlntlc district, Mr. Williams, to. gether with Joseph Plumlee, was nt work In the orehouse, which is located a short distance from thn mnln shaft The two men were cnLnsed In sorting ore, nnd It was part of their duty to attend to the crusher, which Is used In breaking up the coarse ore beforo It Is sent down to the concentrating slant. At about i o'clock Williams was at ivorlr near the crusher, and n few mln-lit mln-lit ite. his partner saw him being ilia between the large belt and the ny wheel. The mnchlnery 11 iih stopped with all rosslble haste, hut not before the unfortunate man had been car-rid car-rid nearly mound the wheel. Death resulted almost Instantly. Tho bruised nnd lifeless body wns carefully lifted from the wheel find Placed upon tha floor of the building. It Is thought something hejnmo wrong with tho mnchlnery and that while Williams wai attempting to adjust the machinery he lost bin bilance, thus losing los-ing his Ufa Upon examlnntlon It was found bis neck had been broken This Injury undoubtedly caused death, al- thuigh there were other Injuries whbh would hnio untied fatal Shortly after the ncldent Justue Whltne Goodrich Impaneled n Jury nnd a lomners Inquest wns held 01 tr th, remains The Jur, umiposed f Vd O'llrlen. Nate Nrlbnur and Lewis Ilnssrl, brought In n erdlct of nirl-dental nirl-dental death In aneirduue with tho fur, going facts llllams was 6a jenrs of age lining been born In Austria In 1MJ He cam to Tlntlc twenty jcars ngo from California Cali-fornia and has n sided In dlffeient camps In the district eier since During Dur-ing that time he has worked In the mines In md around Pinekn. and only recently entered the emploj of the ilammoth conipan He wns a member mem-ber of the l'rni o lodge of Tree Masons The body Is now helm- held at the IVal-lice IVal-lice unrlcrtiiklnc eetnbllshinent until word Is ncelied from the lodce Tho deceased wns unmarried He Is thought to hale 1 biother llilng In California He was Interested In mining min-ing property In this section nnd at tho lime of his death owned 1 couple of ilnlms near the Vlctoi nnd Iloss Tweed mines. |