Tragedy at the Ballard Mill

At 8 o'clock yesterday morning, D. W. Cross received a telephone message from Ballard station, on Salmon Bay, to the effect that a man had been killed there. It was learned that the particulars of the accident were as follows: At 6 o'clock yesterday morning, four men were engaged in unloading cars of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad, which were laden with logs. The custom is to move them off the cars onto an inclined platform, from which they are dumped into the bay. From thence they are towed to the different mills. Andrew J. Myers and his son John were engaged in the work with two others, under the charge of Foreman Hayden. The latter was under the car engaged in oiling when A. J. Myers pulled the chock pins so that the logs might roll into the water. By some means unknown to the other persons engaged in the work, as it was unseen by them, Myers was struck on the forehead by one of the logs and thrown a distance of ten feet into the bay, where the water was eight feet deep. He was not missed for five minutes afterwards. Search was then begun, and one of the men found and reached the body with the aid of a boat hook. It is not thought probable that the injuries received by Myers, though being struck by the log, were sufficient to cause death. It is believed he was stunned and that death was the result of drowning. Myers was 53 years of age and came here with his family from McPherson, Kan., in February, since which time he has been engaged in logging on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad. Coroner Smart held an inquest, and the jury returned a verdict of accidental death.