The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-18
|7RUCK DEAD BY
: A BOLT FROM SKY
linLittIe Willie Smith Killed by Light.
ming Within Few Yards
of Home.
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lsMeets Death on Highway; Body
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Fock Little Willie Smith, the well-known
dsgas struck dead by lightning at about
|ncsi O'clock Tuesday afternoon. His body
ing les at his fathers home, 543 Marion
IeS1venue, surrounded by a score Of his
Borrowing schoolmates and his dis
L.. racted father and mother.
ill.,. Tuesday young Smith, who is but Is
glFears OF age, asked for and was granted
psaA half holiday. At noon he left his
|nr home and went to the Jordan river to
|irs aunt for frogs. The electrical storm
|thrWhich passed over the city at about b
o'clock found the lad returning from
horhIs days sport with a tin bucket full
Il E,f frog legs, the result OF his days
fa hunt. He was within few hundred
! yards OF his home when there came'a
binding flash and the boy fell for
|ykFard on the stony pathway, stone dead.
|sa There is no doubt that he was dead
when he struck the ground. for when
hh found over three hours later there was
rno evidence that he had moved from
Ia ,;he position in which he fell, The sharp
|hs stones OF the pathway had been driven
nto his breast, neck and face and tho
orce OF the concussion had driven the
IS g,lood gushing from his ears
E.Es Found by Boy Friend
lon IT was fully three hours after the ia
|nsi al stroke that William Bouck, neigh
|hs tor boy, passing along the road near
fd the spot where young Smith had fallen,
Ts0,lade out some dark object in the grass
Eo nd approached to ascertain what It
|arHas. He found the body of his young
|e cdend. already stiffened in DEATH
go Bouck was about to run for help
berihen he noted the approach of D. Z.
fdyans. an attache OF the Internal
uaseyenue department. who was driving
Fs ,ityward in a buggy. The young man
! lailed Evans and the two bore the
Hody Of the dead boy to his home
fh 1t was after 8 o'clock when, in the
L. ope that there might be a spark of
bs.afe remaining, DR.. William +. Beer
+ ras summoned The doctor hurried to
Ist ne stricken home only to find that the
Re I'D was beyond all earthly aid Life
ad long been extinct, the doctor CIV
Ian az the opinion that death had come
vnlstantaneously
After assisting in laying the corpse
F1o 'ut and doing what he could to soothe
he sorrowing father, mother and sis
Earser, Dr. Beer drove hastily to the
Ens Evans undertaking establishment and
4 Itreported the case. The mortuary
ambulance was soon on the way to
'%aryring the BODY in.
bul Was Popular Lad.
|tn1 The tragic death of young Smith
Dda4l greatly shock the many young
|trlsfends with whom he mingled daily
m.$ his work in the big Main street
|oH9ora He was very popular with all
d them. Only Tuesday forenoon he
lon time downtown with his sister, Mrs.
f'ps Nriese. and the two visited Keith
+ -Ien's, where they spent some time
has sughing and Joking with the boys and
bNrls Of Willie's acquaintance.
No arrangements have yet been
thSsade for the funeral.
The dead boy was the son Of Jacob
|seunith. the well-known stonecutter,
le father. mother and sister are pros
L. sated with grief.