Show KILLED o an lady meets heels wh with an accidental death yesterday evening sirs mrs sarah P pettit bettit of salt lake city 64 met with her ter sudden and gad sad death the salt lake herald gives the follow i ing par particulars fic ulars of the deplorable event A little before last evening inform information aaion was received that a lady had been killed by the utah central freight train due in salt lake from the south at 35 the train was late and immediately after its arrival the engineer and some of the railroad men boarded another engine proceeded south and in a it short time returned bringing back the lifeless body of an aged lady the coroner was at once summoned and a jury im paneled and met in the baggage room odthe of tho depot the body being in tho the wili waiting ting room the engineer and others gave their testimony tile substance of which was the tile train was a little late and was coming I along at a lively rate about three miles fion from the depot or just below Mou the engineer gaw raw the cove cow catcher sweep something off the track it being dark lie could not tell what it was but supposed it was an till animal lie ile would have stopped the train but it was lato late and he lie thou thought I lit he be would go on tho the more he lie til thought ought of it tho tile more lie believed belie veil it was a man he lie had seen and when n ho lie arrived in the city but a few minutes after he communicated his impre impression ign and returned to the spot with another engine when the place had been readied reached the body of the old lady was found lying in the ditch on her rig right lit side life having been extinct for some soine little time apparently apparent y it t was picked u up and brought to tills this city it could could bo be seen at 11 glance that she had been hurt about the head lead as blood oozed from her mouth and nose No examination was made of tho body however until the jury had heard hear I the testimony of the witnesses a brief inspection Is action of the in urics took place 11 with i ki a view of ascertaining whether c r had bad the engineer stopped his train he might have found life still in the tile body the head lead and breast were examined only when it was found that the back of the head was crushed in showing that death wa was probably instantaneous especially in the case of so a aged cd a person for some time her ter ian identity city could not bo be established and no one had tile slightest sligh teet idea who slie she was A little before however a 11 granddaughter of the deceased came to the depot and identified the body as being that of mrs sarah pettit aged 73 yeam ears tito old lady lias bas been demented for over two years and in the habit of w wandering an dering away aw ay periodically and her whereabouts being unknown for a time to her relations she left her home bom e about on thursday and her friends could not tell where she slie lied gone to the theory odthe of the accident is that she off and getting south odthe of the city and losing it her er way sat down on the I east side of odthe alie track to rest her back must also havo have been slightly ly towards the south while dozing in ill this position the train came alon along and one of tho the heavy cross timbers in front of the engine to which the tit cow catchers attached struck her in the back of the headband hea licad dand and knocked her forward into the ditch where 61 she was found had she been further on the track the cow cate catcher her would doubtless have knocked her down and under tho the wheels and mangled her terribly while a close examination ayas was not ade last night boother in jurica ocic discovered than the crus crushing bing in of the back of ilic the head though the flie shoulders and back may ina have also been bruised ihnot if not broten broken it is certain that slie she was never conscious of the blow having been killed instantaneously the jury return returned eda a verdict of I Z accidental lie ciden death and attaches no blamo blame to the engineer nor to any On one celse chuu it ismor is more than ethan probable that the feeble old lady lost as eho elie was below the city would have perished dished anyhow before morning |