Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-03-03 | Page 2 | Fatal Accident at Devil's Slide

FATAL ACCIDENT AT DEIITS SHOE A fatal accident occurred at the plant of the Union Portland Cement company at Devils Slide about noon yesterday when ,E. H Cameron, foreman fore-man in charge of all blasting operations, opera-tions, was instantly killed by a. fall of rock in the gravel pit. ills skull waa crushed and both arms and one leg brokeu when he was caught under the death-dealing avalanche. A mass of rock, weighing probably seven or eight. toni, had boon loosened loos-ened by a blast, but had not fallen from its position In tho bank. Mr Cameron was not awurc that the mas3 was so nearly dislodged and while pylng with a crowbar in one of the fissures the mass suddenly fell The foreman was taken unawares and could not escape lie was pinioned pin-ioned under the mass of rock and sustained sus-tained the injuries mentioned. It is very probable that death was Instantaneous.. Instan-taneous.. His body was quickly removed re-moved from beneath the rock, but life was extinct. Tho remains wero taken to Morgan and prepared for burial. Mr. Cameron is survived by a wife and three children, who reside at the family home. 308 H street, Salt Lake City. The foreman was considered one of the most experienced powder men in the state and was very careful care-ful in the handling of explosives lie hnd been in the employ of the Devil's Slide company for about one year post nn