The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-23
Frightened Horse 0verturns
Buggy in Parley's Canyon
and Accidentally Discharges
Firearm Into Veterans Body
HER0ISM OF GIRL WHO
FORGETS OWN INJURIES
While Physician and Civil War
Veteran Lies Dead at Road
side, She DaSheS Nearly
Mile to Summon Assistance,
TRAGEDY RACKS HOME
HURLED from buggy overturned

HURLED from buggy overturned
L by a maddened horse, DR.. JO-
seph Milliron, prominent physician
and civil war veteran, caught the
double charge of a shotgun he was
carrying and was instantly i1illed yes
terday afternoon in Parley's canyon.
With him in the buggy when the
horse became frightened at a Denver
& Rio Grande locomotive was Miss
Louise MillirOn, Is years old, his
daughter. The tragedy of DR.. Mill
irons death was more acute from the
fact that while his daughter was
hurried with great force from the bug
gy, she was conscious enough to hear
the twin reports Of the shotgun and
discern the mangled body Of her ia
ther, motionless beside the road.
One charge penetrated DR. Milliron's
body, the second hanging his arm.
His death was almost simultaneous
with his fall among the rocks.
DR.. MiliirOn and his daughter were
driving toward the Delis, in Parleys
canyon, and had reached a point just
west of huntington, on the Park City
branch of the Denver & Rio Grande
road when the tragedy occurred. Sud
denly, from around a sharp curve. 2
light engine, headed for Salt Lake,
Numbered into view, less than three
rods distant from the buggy containing
the Salt Lake physician and his young
est child. With wild plunge the horse,
which had never before been known to
take fright, swerved TO one side and
attempted to climb the side of the cliff.
Carriage Overturned.
The carriage was overturned, DR..
Milliron falling first. followed by his
daughter. As the physician fell both
barrels of the shotgun were dis
charged, the entire contents lodging
themselves in the veterans body. When
Miss Milliron recovered from the shock
she saw her father lying in the road.
his face and body covered with blood
and a horrible expression overspread-
ing his countenance.
Screaming with terror she called to
her father TO speak TO her, and failing
to secure a response she dashed wildly
down the canyon to tbs WaterWOrks,
three-quarters of a mile distant, TO
summon assistance.
Before reaching this point she was
overcome and fell fainting in the road.
crew which, by this time, had started
back to ascertain the damage done TO
the wrecked equipage and its Occu-
pants. Being revived Miss MilirOn
continued on To the WaterWOrks, where
she summoned assistance, Samuel r.
Brown, tankman at the waterWOrks,
and a lifelong friend of the Milliron
family, responding to her appeals for
aid.
The heroic girl, suffering great tor
ture and pain, then returned to the
scene of the accident, but was prevent
ed from approaching her parents body.
She was then placed aboard the engine
and taken 20 Sugar House, where, in a
drug store, her. injuries were temper
arily dressed, while word was sent for
assistance TO go to the canyon and
bring back the body Of DR.. WiliirOn.
The body was taken TO the Evans un-
dertaking establishment and there pre-
pared for burial Funeral arrange
ments had not been completed last
night, pending the arrival of word from
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