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Show Boy Killed Under Wagon Lyman Davis Backs Un-Team Un-Team Crossing Walk. Lyman, a six-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Davis, of the First ward Logan, was so badly injured beneath a gravel wagon Thursday afternoon that he died the following morning about two o'clock. The little fellow had been tosee his aunt, Mrs. S. B Mltton, down In the Sixth ward, and. was returning along the walk on South Main, when the accident occurred. It appears that the boy was walking backward pulling a small wagon, and when near the Grlilln blacksmith shop backed Into the tugs of a pair of horses attached to a wagon loaded with gravel being driven across the walk by Roncy Benson. The boy was either not noticed by the driver or else he scared the horses so that the driver's attention was needed there, and before be-fore the wagon could bo stopped tho little fellow was beneath the front wheel. The wheel did not pass over thebovbut rather scooted him along In front of It, jet he was so Injured Internally that he died as stated. It Is said that no Just blame can be attached to the driver as the boy was down before anything could have been done. It is supposed that the noise of the boy's wagou on the cement walk prevented him from hearing the approach ap-proach of the team, hence the accident. acci-dent. The father of the unfortunate boy Is now onamisslon,so that the blow comes doubly hard on both parents who must bear their grief apart. The funeral service will be held in the First ward meeting house Sunday at 4 p.,m. i |