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Show BOY KlLU'l). A very sad and fatal accident happened hap-pened ntLiudou, a small district ud-j-jiulni: Pleasant Grove, about a mile south of tho town piopor, on Monday morning. Tlio victim of the aevldeiit is young Robert Cobley, the 10 year-old con of llishop Cobley, of Liudoii Young Cobley carried the Liudun mail to aud from the tiains, and wag performing his duty whou ho met an untimely death. Tho Oregon Short Lino train pulses through the town a littlo after 8 11. m. and takes on mail by means of au iron mm attached to the mail car door, as it (iocs not stop, . Tliia morning young Cobley .aulvul early aud attached the mall sack to the mail rack, ft is suppoed that lia sal down at the foot of the rack aud fell asleop, as iio had been up all the night before watering lucerne. Tho engineer, Jas. Riehaidion, saw the boy near tlu track and King the Doll and blew the whistle, ti.it the- lad did not move. Tho locomotive passed and thu big Iron arm ot the .m.iil eei reached out for the tack, and then diop-ped diop-ped siriiking the 111 f jitunatu boy on the ilde of tlio head, just buck ot the ear. As soon as possible the iralu was stopped stop-ped ami tho unconscious boy wns taken aboard and carried to the depot in Pleasant Grove, and later moved to the rusidenco of llishop Thome, wheft lie died in ouo hour, ami thirty minutes, without regaining consciousness. Besides having his skull' fractured, the boy's rip;lit arm was broken in two places and he was otherwise mangled aud bruised. llishop Cobley and wife werj in Coalville Coal-ville visiting aud weie immediately notilltdof thu accident.' DeceAsod's eldest brother, Orvul Cobley, i on a mission in California, |