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Show ' FORT DOUGLAS MAN'S I FALL PROVES FATAL I Salt Lake. Feb. 17. Claude Rogers, a Fort Douglas teamster, was thrown from n horse at 1:40 o'clock Thursday Thurs-day afternoon, receiving injuries fro'ii which he died at 12:30 o'clock this j morning. No relatives of Rogers have been found, and there are few' persons who know anything about him. J ! He did not regain consciousness after j the fall. An effort is being made by both the civil and military authoilties to locate his relatives. Tho horse Irani which Rogers was I thrown was a fractious animal, but as he was an ext'ert horseman, said by some of the officers to be thc best at the fort, no one thought of fear. t Ho mounted nt 110 West First South, and thc horse soon betran to gle , trouble. The anlmai became unman- ( ngablc and ran Into th rear of a single bujgy which was driven by Dr John Farrlngton, a vefrlnnriun. nearly near-ly upsetting the rig and throwing Rogers Rog-ers to (he pavement with such force that his skull was fractured in seera; places. Rogers was tnkon to the omergencv hospital, whence Dr. H. B. Spratruo had him removed to St. Mark's hospital. hospi-tal. An operation was performed tlK-re ' immediately upon his arrival. i Although lingers had been emplo3-ed i at the fort but' a short time as team- stor, he had worked there on a former occasion as n corral hand and was regarded re-garded as an oxcollant hand. Ho was Mingle and about 35 years old. |