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Show HHUMEB OGOER I KILLED Salt Lake, Aug. 3. Tho Rev. Mr. Slmpkin left hero last Friday morning morn-ing with Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Bucks of Pocatello to conduct the funeral services serv-ices of Mrs. M. Z. Sims, mother of Mrs. Bucks, who was killed by a train at Geneva, 111,, last Thursday night. Tho services were held at 9:30 o'clock Monday morning at Aurora, and interment in-terment was made in Spring Lake cemetery. Tho services were held oarly in tho day to avoid as much as 1 possiblo the Intense heat of midday. I Mr. and Mrs Sims had been visit-I visit-I Ing with relatives and old friends in Illinois and were starting home, when Mrs. Sims "was struck and instantly killed by the fast mail train at Geneva Gene-va about midnight last Thursday night. They saw tho train approaching, approach-ing, but belloved It was tho local passenger train and that they would have ample time to cross tho track before It reached tho station. Mrs. Sims was a little in front of her husband, hus-band, who noticed tho train was approaching ap-proaching rapidly and did not attempt to cross ahead of It. When it had gone ho crossed and found Mrs. Sims lying dead on the platform. For several years Mr. and Mrs. Sims resided in Salt Lake and Ogden, but moved to Pocatello about two years ago, when tho offices of tho mechanical mechani-cal dopartment of tho Oregon Short Line wore transferred to that point. Mrs. Sims was a woman of culture and -was highly esteemed In Utah and Idaho, as well as in the vicinity of her old Illinois home. Despite tho extremely ex-tremely hot weather, the services were largely attended and a great measure of sympathy was expressed by Aurora and Chicago friends. Mr. nnd Mrs. Bucks will return with Mr. Sims to Pocatello In a few days. |