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Show si .wtiii;vr. Mrs. Hurry II. Windsor r salt l.nkc Midilcnl) Killed. Tho news of a leirible accident reached Coalville last Saturday about noon. It happened about 23 inlli'l up Chalk Creak canyon and as a result Xtrs Harry 11. Windsor of Ball Uke received the full charge of a shot gun in the breast and died from thu edicts of the injury wllh-in wllh-in about flyo minutes. The full particulars of the affair, as printed In a Coalville dispatch to last Saturday's Herald, are as follows Mrs. Windsor wai ridlngup the can-j can-j on In a single buggy at the time of the accident. With her In the buggy was a loaded shot gun, with the butt on the bottom of tho buggy and the barrel leaning on the seat, Juit how the gun was discharged Is not known, but the fall chsrge entered the unfortunate young woman's lungs and caused almost al-most Instantaneouideath. ' Mr. and Mrs. Windsor, in company with another lady and gentleman, left their home In Salt 1-ako on Thursday morning on a hunting and fishing trip of two or three weeks. The party passed pass-ed through this placo Thursday afternoon after-noon and camped Ih Chalk Creek for the night, about eighteen miles from here. About 8 o'clock Saturday morning tho party started out, Mr. and Mrs. Windsor Wind-sor riding In a single buggy with the shotgun between them. They had gono alioul five miles when something went wrong with the brake on the bead wagon. wag-on. Mr. Windsor got out and went forward for-ward to assist In righting things. llehsd hardly reached the wagon ahead when the report of the gun was heard, and the Windsor hone, rendered frantic by the noise, dashed madly past the lorward wagon. Just as It passed, Mrs. Windsor was thrown out and fell to the ground with the cry 1 -( Oh, lUrrywtjere are jrour'.-Iler within flvo mlnutss fn terrible agony. As soon as tho othir members of the pirt t VI 1 iife what had happened tbe ' I ' Mrs. Windsor was wrapped np and pl.ici In the wagon and the mournful journey back to Coalville was begun. To add to the horror of the day, but a few miles bad been traverssd when the wheel of the wsgon broke down, upsetting the wagon, fortunately, fortun-ately, a sheep camp was near by, and here another wagon was procured, and the sad Journey wss continued. About B o'clock Saturday 'evening the party reached thla place. Mr, Windsor was distracted with grid. The witnesses to the accident wera examined before Attorney C. A. Callls who said that no Inquest would be necessary. nec-essary. The body of Mrs. Windsor wss placed In charge of Undertaker Allen, who prepared It to bo shipped to Salt Lake that nlghl. Dr. French, who examined ex-amined the wound, said that the entire cliargo of the gun entered the right breast aud penetrated the lungs, The wound was a vary ugly one. At Salt Lake funeral services were held over the remains, after which they were shipped to Fort Collins, Colo,,. Mrs. Windsor's former home, and burled. |