Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-21
Mrs. Annie 6. Pratt the Victim of
Many ReyerseS in Her
Life.
HER HUSBAND KILLED IN MINE
Rendered Homeless BY Flames, Her
Son Badly Hurt and Now She How
ers Between Life and Death.

Mrs. Annie r. Pratt, who was run
down by a Wandamere car near Thlr-
teenth South ana Seventh East streets
early Wednesday evening. still lies in
an unconscious condition at the
Groves l.. ID. s. hospital. The state
of coma produced by fracture of
her skull will continue until the frac-
ture is reduced and the pressure on
the brain relieved. The attending
physician, DR.. Landenberger, Is hope
ful that she may vet recover, for
while her injuries were numerous and
painful, the skull fracture, the doctor
thinks, is the most serious, and its eff
fects may be overcome.
Mrs. Pratt's misfortune of We'd
nesday evening seems like the Culmin-
alton of Il series of reverseS which have
befallen her during several years past,
Her experience would lead one to
think i'll luck hoVers over the family
and that the chapter of accidents, be-
ginning seven or eight years ago in
the death of her husband, p. Pratt, in
Scofleld mine accident, about a
month subsequent to the great Scofield
disaster has run through the gamut
of misfortunes including the loss of
her home and household effects by fire
10 months ago, the serious burning of
her son Nephi in another fire in this
city at later date, up to the present
disaster when she, herself. Is trcading
the uncertain brink of eternity.
LIVED IN CARBON COUNTY.
The Pratts lived at Hale. in Carbon
county, for many years, happily and
prosperous. They acquired some
holdings IN the coal lands Of Carbon
county, and IN some of these, the
widow has managed to retain possess
sion. Then came the coal mine ac.
cident mt Scoheld, in which the hus.
band was killed. The widow and sew
eral children moved to Salt Lake,
where they bought modest little
home Nineteen months ago the house
took fire, and the home and its con-
tents were entirely destroyed, The
peoule of Cannon ward, whore Mrs.
Pratt resided, and surrounding neigh
bors contributed and erected another
home for Mrs. pratt and her children,
at 75S Montague avenue, where the
family now resides. During the time
of the building Of the home, the
family was given shelter by the neigh
bors
Some time after this event, her son
Nephi, in attempting to save II child
which he believed to be in a burning
house in Poplar Grove. rushed into
the flames and though the child was
not in the house, having been taken
out prior to the attempted rescue by
the Pratt boy, he was terribly burned
while searching for the child in the
flames ana was laid up In the hospital
for weeks as a result of his heroic
conduct This entailed a heavy exc
pense upon the family, and was an-
other chapter added TO the list of the
family misfortunos, The final straw
came when Mrs Pratt herself,
through some mlsapprcheusion Of the
circumstance, stepped in front Of
the moving Wandamere car on We'd
nesday evening to be hurled almost
TO tho brink of eternity.
When the accident happened Mrs.
Pratt was on her way to meet her
son Neph at Wandamore where an
outing was being held by u. G. NJ j.
Her head was badly cut and bruised.
her ear torn nearly off, and her face
scraped as though her head had been
dragged on the ground but no serious
bodily Injuries were found. The many
friends of the unfortunate woman
hope for her recovery which seems
now a question of time,