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Show YOUNG SALT LAKER CRUSHED TO DEATH SALT LAKE. April 25. While at-' at-' templing to fix the foot brake of a ! heavy automobile truck he was driving for the Ctah Firebrick company. Milton Mil-ton Claude Henderson. 18 years old. received Injuries early yesterday 'morning which resulted in his death several hours later His body was discovered dis-covered lying in the roadway under the machine about a mile north of Bi;.' Cottonwood canyon by workmen going i to work at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. morn-ing. According to Deputy Sheriff Al Prltchard, who was sent out to Investigate Investi-gate the accident, it appears that young Henderson, who was the son of Mr and Mrs M H. Henderson of 7.1ft : Poplar arcade, left the county bUIcs I beds with a heavy load of silica shorl ly after 11 o'clock Tuesday night Stopping near the loot of a small hill Henderson apparenth t rawled beneath (the machine with his Pus under the front of a rear wheel while he tinkered tinker-ed with the brake rods While in this position the truck, standing on a down grade, started forward. the wheels passing over the lower part of his body, nearly severing one leg the hip and crushing the foot from the other leg. While the young man must have suffered suf-fered the most intense agony from his injuries, he apparently did not lose consciousness, as a blood stained trail in the road showed thai he had attempted at-tempted to roach help by crawling up 'the hill in the direr-lion from which he 'had come. After dragging himself a hundred feet up the hill he then finding find-ing hi.- strength almost gone. Henderson Hender-son crawled hack to the truck. Appearances Ap-pearances indicate thai death overtook him while he was attempting to open a stop cock under the radiator of the machine in an effort to secure some water for the purpose of alleiatlng the fevered thirst resulting from the I mangled condition |