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OBITUARIES/DEATH NOTICES

1884-07-24; Salt Lake Tribune

The Body Found
"The body of William Pearce who was drowned in Price River last May, found."

A correspondent writing to The Tribune under date of July 18th, from Price, Emery county, Utah, state that while a party of men from the construction train on the D. & G. were fishing in Price river near Castle Gate on Thursday last, they discovered the body of a man lodged under a rock in the river. The body was taken out and found to be badly decomposed. A number of the men at once recognized it as that of William Pearce, a young man who was drowned on May 23d last while working on a construction train near Castle Gate. He was unloading rock at the time with a derrick, and was accidentally thrown into Price river by a a blow from the derrick. E. W. McIntire, justice of the peace of Price precinct, was at once notified of th finding of the body, and summoning a jury, composed of Fred E. Grames, Jacob Black and John Philips, proceeded to Castle Gate, where the bony  had been removed in a box and held an inquest, returning a verdict in accordance with the above facts.

Submitted by Pam Rathbone

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