| Show r o r 7 If U. If U. HUNTSMAN lULLED KILLED 4 Fh i i II H. H. H Huntsman Is dead and half a dozen are more or less battered up upi 1111 i as as' s' s the result of or an explosion o of black blackf f 10 poder p powder at cut between Price i this morning about bout 8 30 s' s says says s 's the the Price News Advocate te of ot l I March 31 The accident occurred In connection with the work being done doneN N shortening ln up the road and avoiding avoid avold- Ing the sharp turn in the road at that point by cutting through the theM theT T M- mo mountain Mr H Huntsman had subcontracted sub sub- contracted c I the work of making this r CU cut and had a steam shovel shove and crew f f n of of r men working for him there Black r 7 powder was being used beca because se of ot the adaptability to the formation of t r r. r the rock A shot was being being placed in n the rock this m an and the hole had been partly filled with powder pow pow- powder der the powder can being set down downto l.- l. v i to one side open The man putting In the tho shot then went after his tamping tamping tamp tamp- I ing rod which was lying a short distance distance dis dis- i tance away Although some are of oft t the te opinion that a spark from the steam shovel then fell in the open powder poder can the better opinion would seem to be that It fell In the hole hale where the shot was being placed for about fifty tons tans of rock came down I as a result pinning Mr Huntsman I In a a sitting posture against the steam shovel and burying him well up tip around the chest partly burying Reid Gammell the engineer on the shovel and John Van Luven powder powder powder pow der monkey Mr Huntsman was wa rendered unconscious and died on the way to the bunk houses after beIng being being be be- Ing taken from Crom under the rocks H He was Internally and died o of hemorrhage J I r t V s i Mr oi Huntsman is Is survived d bY by a a widow and family y at j J |
