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Show WM. B. RIDD KILLED BY A WORK TRAIN Salt 7-akc. Aug. 26. William 13. Ridd of 425 North Sixth West street, was struck by a gravel train on the street car tracks at Third North and Third West streets at 12-15 o'clock yesterday afternoon and died In less than an hour later In the I-atter-day Saints hospital The car wheals severed sev-ered the right leg at the knee nnd broke the left lee in two places Jlr Ridd vas aged and badly crippled from a former nccident. According to spectators .Mr. Ridd was walking west on Third North street when tho work train struck him as it woo going south on Third West street He was blind In his right ee and almost totally deaf nnd probably did not know that the train wns coming com-ing until it struck him. The train was stopped immediately and Conductor Harry Young and Jfotorman II C. Fowkes, who were in charge, did nil they possibly could to assist in get-Unc get-Unc the injured man to the hospital Ridd was born .March 31, 1S41, in Devonshire, England, and camo "tolM Utah in 1871 with his wlfo and twojH children, who survive him. He forjPE merly worked in a lime kiln near thisSflj city, where, fourtoen years ago, heHg was Injured by an explosion, lOBlng W his left arm, his right eye and almofjlJ oslng his hearing. Ho Is survived b his widow, ono son, one daughter, fif m teen grandchildren and six great ijy grandchildren. The children are William J Ridd of 1520 South JTalnW street and Jlrs John W Haslam oMK 544 West Third North street. W |