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Show I ORSON WILSON KILLED AND I HARMON KRAAIMA SERIOUSLY I INJURED AT GRAIN ELEVATOR ill! I Orson Wilson, aged 32. son of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Wilson. 10-sidlng 10-sidlng in Wilson Lane near the a satch Canning factory, as insianti killed about 10 o'clock last night at the new plant of the Globe Grain & Milling company when a false flooring floor-ing over grain tanks under construction construc-tion gave way, causing the man to drop 100 feet. Herman Kraaima, aged 37. who was with Wilson and other men on the flooring, was also precipitated 100 feet to the bottom of the tank, but escaped es-caped death, although seerclf in jured. The other men who were on the flooring managed to escape the fall by rushing to points of safety. The two victims were near the outer edge and had no chance to save themselves. them-selves. The men who escaped wen' Harrj Hanson, J B Clapp. John HansOQ K H Thompson and Roy Staker. Five Men Saved. Night construction has been going n at the Globe plant lot a numki ol weeks in order to have th- concreli storage tanks ready for operation As the opening of the grain season. As the work progressed it has be-on net e sary to hoist large quantities of material ma-terial by means of a high derrick which is illumniated by electric- lights, as are also other portions of the plant where the men work. In order to store the material and i arr on the work as safely as po:jsi-bie, po:jsi-bie, temporary floor-- had been plated over the tanks, upon which the materials ma-terials are landed. The two men, with live others were standing on the floor o er the southeast tank. Upon this1 floor, according to reports of the eye! witnesses to the traged, had been piled a quantity of iron reinforcements; used in the construction of the plant. The supports of the floor gave way on the west side of the tank. As soon as the five men were able to reach safety, they took note of their' numbers and found two were missing.! The two men it is said, had disap , peafed from sight almost instantly when the floor gave wa On top of the tanks at the time of the accident Were also J. H Waugh, the construe t'.on engineer, and George Kap, night foreman. They immediately organized . the rescue work The men above railed down into the tank where the two men hail t alien and were surprised to hear a reply from Kraaima, who had not lost conscious ness They told him to wait as pati-cntl pati-cntl as possible and they would exin-1 cate him from the debris. Hauled out by Ropes. As soon as ropes could be rigged, Jack Wilson and William Summers, two of the five men who escaped when .-the floor fell, were lowered to the hot-1 torn of the tank Ropes were attacked 1 to Kraaima and he was aoisted to the 'top of the tank and then lowered over jthe side to the ground, as it was nn i possible to carrv him down the scaf-1 Told ladders. j With only one arm projecting out of the w reekage, the , body of Wilson I was found covered with lumber and j j cement. As quickly as they could1 work, the two rescuers uncovered the 'body and found that Wilson was dead. In the hope, however, that life had nor been lost and that he might be resuscitated, resu-scitated, the body was hurriedly hoist-1 ed to the top of the tank and then lowered to the ground. In the meantime calls had been sent I for medical aid and Dr. Ezra C Rich arranged for preparations to receive i the injured at the Deo hospital. Kraaima was taken to the hospital , and the body of Wilson was removed to the home in Wilson Lane, being later conveyed to the Lindquist under taking chapel by Bishop Charles R. Dana and John Vaughn Engineer Waugh accompanied Kraaima to the hospital and remained with him for some time "It seems almost a miracle that thi man fell 100 feet and escaped alive," said the engineer "I was on top of the tanks when the accident occurred, watching the men on iho work. 1 did not notice any signs of anytning giving giv-ing way. Suddenly it started and tho men disappeared " On top of the southwest tank where the accident occurred the five other men with Wilson and Kraaima, who were Harry Hanson, J V Clapp, John Hanson, R. H. Thompson and Roy Staker, were all engaged in leveling the concrete as it was poured onto the roof from the construction tower. Orson W i 1 8 o n leaves, besides be-sides his aged mother, a widow, Mrs. Pearl Jackson Wilson, two children, aged five and two years, and other i datives. Kraaima, who resides on Stephens avenue, is married and the father of ! tour children. Funeral services will be held at 1 1 30 Sunday morning at the West Ogden meeting house, Bishop C. R. Dana pre-I pre-I Siding. The funeral cortege will leave , Lindquist's funeral rhapel at 11 a. m Sunday and burial w ill be made in Og cen city cemetery. |