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Show CHARLES A. PEET IS BELIEVED DROWNED SALT LAKE, Nov. 9. Charles A. Peot, mining engineer, residing at the Princeton apartments, SS0 East First South street. Is believed to have been drowned by falling down a shaft Thursday at the Key West mino, near SU Thomas. Nev. Mrs. Peet yesterday morning received from William Foster, Fos-ter, an engineer associated with Mr. Poet, a telegram telling of the accident acci-dent Thursday and stating that tho body had not been found. Mrs. Poet and her two children have not yet entirely abandoned hope that the victim of the accident may be still alive, and are hourly expecting additional addi-tional information. A native, of Illinois and a graduate of the Englowood high -school, Mr. Poet came here about 1G years ago, took a course in mining engineering at the University of Utah and has siuco been actively engaged In hl8 profession. profes-sion. For a number of years ho was on the engineering stiff of Colonel E A Wall, When ho left for Nevada he was associated with Mr. Foster in an examination ex-amination of the Key West mine, preparatory pre-paratory to making an examination for parties who were planning to reopen tho property. The shaft referred to Is stated to be about 312 feet deep and containing about eighty feet of water |