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Show L R. WILBUR DIES FROM INJURIES IN THE SHOPS L. R. Wilbur, the unfortunate man who was seriously injured Tuesday morning bv a falling girder of the new gallery being erected in the bagk shop of the Southern Pacific machine plant in this city, died this morning at 7 o'clock at the Ogden general hospital. Mr. Wilbur was 37 years of age and his relatives have been adised of his death and asked concerning the disposition of the remains. The accident was due to a chain breaking as one of tho heavy dividers was being raised Into position, and it is simply miraculous that half a dozen or more men were not seriously injured or crushed to death by the heavy girder gir-der as it came crashing down in tho center of workingmcn and in tho midst of heavy machinery of every description. de-scription. The new gallery is being constructed under difficulties, owing to the congested con-gested condition of the big Bhop. and while workmen are placing the heavy steel in posltidu, under the personal direction di-rection of Foreman Eastman, the ship plant is running in full blast and a hundred or more men working under and about the gallery In course of erection. |