Co's MORMON COLONIST IN MEXICO KILLED Fatal Accident to Former Pioneer of Utah I I Alma Platte Utah pioneer pioneer pio- pio pio pio- i i neer frontiersman and colonist at Celonia Co- Co lonia Ionia Juarez Mex was the fourth I member of or his family destined to m meet et with a a. violent death He was hurled oY over r a dugway about twelve miles mites south of Col Colonia Tuesday while driving driving driving ing his team 3 a dangerous curve according to word received in jn Salt Lake Wednesday by his brother David East Twenty- Twenty First South street David M. M one of or the sons of ot the accident victim was killed by Mexicans in El EI Paso Another son n Ernest was mistaken by Mexicans for fora a man whom they had been seeking and killed Orson McCrea l a son-in- son law was a murder victim during the I. I W W. W. W rI riots ts in Bisbee Ariz Alma Platte was born in Nebraska August 5 1850 while his family was crossing the plains to Utah Eight days after aCter birth the I wagon in which he and his mother Co's were riding overturned in the Pl Platte tte I river The he baby was taken from the river fiver W with h life apparently extinct He was resuscitated however and gf en n nI tho the second cond name of ot Platte I When he grew to to manhood Mr 11 i became became a a a settler in southern south south- I I ern em Utah and then moved to l Ie Mexico i o o. o Two widows Mrs 1 J Jane ne Redd Bedd S ils- ils I bur bury and Mrs Jane Smith y i land i and sixteen children survive him He Heis HeI j I is also survived by two brothers brothels MoI Moroni Moroni Mo- Mo I roni of Toquerville and p-nd David of Salt Lake Lale and I two sisters sister's Mrs Vilate Bagle Bagle- of Toquerville and Mrs Katie Mecham l of ot ManU r II i j