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Show B ELEOTniCITY KILLED HIM. PpSI At thx Clclden :at mine nt 9:30 PPHI o'clock Thur- ; evening William I'. PjPJyJ Wnlters lost hla 'if. It appears that PPV Walters In n spirit l daring took hold PJpjWj ( a live wire running from the seventh PjpK drift to the eng'm -room, and was In- bbbbbbbb f'tantly killed Ilia . nmpanlon, Herbert iCooley, nanowlv en aped with his life. Cooley, whose dut It la to nttend to the signal wire, made the usunl signal to PPBa the engineer at the top of the drift. He 1 received a shock of electricity. Young PjpKi Walters laughed nt him. stepped for- PPH ward nnd took hold 0( the wire with PBH lioth hnnds, standing In front of Cooley, who still had his hand on the wire. In- Pjpjpfl Htnnlly Walters doubled up and pitched I violently toward Cooley The latter ex- ' trlcated himself from the wire nnd with PjpjpJ difficulty loosened the hold which voung PH "Wallers had on the wire. Or Thayer PPB -was called but before he arrived young PjPM- Waltem was dead The oung man PjpjpJ! was 2 yrnra old. nmarrled, and lived PPB nt Wellsvllle with lit parents. PJVflJj Walters had Just recently returned PjSjpJ( from "i mission to southern Illinois. He PMBJ ' was well liked. Ill fact, a general fn- PM)pJ vorlte. A large body of people followed PJVBJv the remains to the depot PjVBJi Haturday nn Inquest was held before PjbBJ' Coroner A. H. Dunlavy ns to the muse PMjVjV of William Waltera'a death The Ju- PMBfli rors, Fred Oablo, Fred nimendorff nnd PHBjjV Ouy lloloynere, viewed the remains In PPHl Watt's undertaking parlors and then PPp. Inspected the place where the accident PPHJ occurred The following witnesses were Pjpjpjj summoned I'Ved Mcrnrlnnd, Fred PPBl Ilogrrs, Carl Alkie, William F. Durgy PflfljBi and II. 1'- Cooley. The jury found Hint PJPIl Walters on me to bis death by accident. PHHHJ with no one to blame. The remains PPV were shipped to Salt Lake City, where PHHml tho parents of the deceased nualted PPH' their arrival. The body of he deceased PPn was accompanied by Joseph llrnmhley |