Show f YESTERDAYS FATALITY John Livesey Brained by a Falling Stone While at Work in a Well A Rotten Rope Breaks and Lets the Fatal Rock Fall On the Doomed Man Ills Skull Crushed and His fleck Broken Mrs Ltreseys Precarious Pre-carious Condition Yesterday afternoons sad fatality was a terrible shock to the people of the Tenth and Eleventh wards The news spread rapidly and hundreds of people flocked both to the scene of the accident and the deceaseds residence Women and children wept aloud and on the faces of the men were expressions of sorrow for the dead man and of sympathy for his griefstricken widow A DEMOCRAT reporter happened to be in the neighborhood soon after the accident acci-dent and in connection with several others visited Mr Strongs place on Fourth South street where Mr Livesey met his death Measurement of the well showed that it was 49 feet from the surface sur-face to the bottom that there was 23 feet of the shaft walled up and the depth of the water to be 7 feet At the coroners inquest the following facts were testified to by the witnesses Mr Livesey had been engaged to rock up a well for Mr Strong He had two young menHeber Strong and James Ashman Jr to help him In the morning morn-ing young Strong had remarked to Livesey about the unsafe condition of the box in which the rocks was lowerd the bottom of it being badly broken It was patched up by placing a teninch board on the inside About half past two the boys were letting down a box of rocks weighing probably seventyfive pounds When it had descended about ten feet the rope around the box broke thus letting let-ting the box tip sidewise the rock tumbling tum-bling out and falling on the unfortunate man below Young Strong looked down but heard or saw nothing but the splashing splash-ing and bubbling of the water The boys were terribly frightened and at once ran for help which they could not find for some time At last when enough men had gathered to undertake the raising of the drowned body W C Cater volunteering to make the descent which he did with grappling irons A hold was soon secured and the body raised feet first It was immediately carried home to his heartbroken wife For over two hours there was a wait for the snaillike coroner to make his appearance which he finally did in a way that showed that neither for the living or the dead would he try to make haste When he was found he was tinkering with a music box He told the man who summoned him that he would be along after a while which proved to be the case but it was a very long while When he finally did arrive a jury was impaneled and the testimony given The jury examined the body and found that the crown of the head was crushed in and the neck was broken either of which wounds would have caused instant death No blame was attached at-tached to any one not withstanding the rope holding the box was very rottem but as that had been covered up by leather for the purpose of protection of course the danger was unforeseen As Mrs Livesey was in a very delicate condition the unfortunate death of her husband was doubly trying to her Just ten hours after the death of her husband she gave birth to a boy which she believed be-lieved at the time to have been born dead Such was not the case though it was a considerable time before it showed much sign of being alive For several hours the mothers life hung in the balance bal-ance of life and death but later advices say that there are encouraging hopes for her rallying The child is also doing nicely By this birth the fatherless family is increased to six children Mr John Livesey was forty two years old and had lived in Utah for twentyfive years He was an honest hardworking man and respected by all who knew him The funeral services will be held at the Tenth ward assembly rooms at 3 oclock Friends and neighbors neigh-bors are respectfully invited to attend |