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/Vi I iif atcttlrul— Drat It of Mr. Mia* Sjiitg/I-hetij.li beeomot our putuful duly, till* ttwk, '.o announce IhcJcmth of Mr. Klim Spingelborg,• Inch was eained Itiy th- roof of bis chamber iMKocin upon him, lost /liduv evening, llie fourteenth lnt. Ho retired lo reit at Id* usual hour in tlio turning, occupying a book rmrai ii'l'ijiiiinp bis more. Sometime in the night,1 tliu young Mcgicuo who wm llesping in the ' ^ h,report of lit ihire, hoard III1' UOiM i f n full-I lug lOof, bu:, not [suspecting any Inn* war 1 done, lie |iuiil no attention lo it, un.l thought 1 1 no maro «bou: It. In the morning ho get u; iw ■J unual. and opined the store will out going back ■ lo ate wlut had fallen during the night. The Bret ' 1,parson who discovered the accident was Mr.' McKulchen who ow-upics llm ndjuinitig atom:1 win’, tp-lng out, quit* curly in llm morning, in-' u, hi* li.n'k ccrnl, - ,\v that the roof of Mr, I Spisgelbcrg's ronm Imd fallen d- ti n and that ’ hi «u« huri J in llm nwir. 'fbo nloriii wm 1 Immediately yircn, and Assistant Surgeon lit ' Uon 1. S. A,, cnllml in, hm ii Wm too Into n restore him id life: ho wni otitT niul cold, hit-i tag been ilundioini; lioun.II wm found that ilir 'Id.-a- (beams) that supported the earthen roof had gison way, and n : •evurnl hundred pounds of dirt had fallen In. i _ The dirt IijJ principally Wien upon bin head 'r i and cheat, lo ro it lay to the depth of nhuiit If j two feel, while on other pnrta of Ida person I j thorn waa not t» iro than two or Ihrett 'mele-s. | .. I Thu Itama did not strike him; and from the petition in which ho not lying, the weight of „l diif must hate smothered him in death, l«-[t i fore e awake, na he did not nppcur In have , mado a ctrugglo. Tim hed on which hr wot I sleeping, WM U| on llie floor, while hit bed-1( ' stead, upon which he usually ilept, although ! within a few feet, was neither touched by the (j limlierw nor dirt.When tli'n sad accident Icontno known, the 1 next mommy, it produced a profound sensation I { among all elmn of our dill cat, and brought j ^ j forcibly lo ilie mind of crery one, Hut in tlo i I i mi lit of life we are in death.”' Mr. Spiegel--t I,erg iv n» a yimng and enterprising im-n-hanl. n 1 and was held in high oitcom at a eitiien ami n j, man of business; and hit sudden ami melancholy ; It death canted heart-fell sorrow among his j friends and nnoolntc*. He win a (irnnan It o, i birth, Imi had resided in th» tTuitcd Stul-ii some in * onr» and become a e'.ttinn. He wain rrepott-I memher of llm Ordcn of M.i-mi an I Odd cn IV Hows, the latter if which bodies passed appro-prfito resolutions, iumemuryaf the virtues of thu nj 1 • • d, and which may be found licluw. II r I j wav hurled Sunday the sixteenth, in the ccmt-lt Iitv near the town, v'uh masonic crremoniw, i:,, Iinii was followed to thu touch tly the largeit u. concourse of people we have eior mien nayeni-r,.. hi-1 up r.i a like eccniian line* we liaro raid-I ed hero.; ••Leaves linve llieir lime lo fall, lodflowcn lo wither ctthonorth wind's brouth, ]lr And s.ars to *ct—but all,p. T'hon hast ail scuons for thinr own, 0 death 1” ,f. l'REAMW.R AN 11 RESOLUTIONS, by Whereas it hit plcusod ditino /*wIdonc;- to a- remote from iho transitory scene.- of tbit earlh ict uir well belated brother Ellas Apii .’clbcrg, N. , is 'i. of this Nodgo. and ut Whereat his amiable and ondoariog i|ualilict l(l0 as a oltiten, and hit teal arid energy in the I cauio of Odd Felluwihip and the dignity and ur_ ' Impartiality with which ho presided ntcr tin traits actions of tbit Lodge havo endeared lure j ! lo us all,Therefore:('f Ho it res oiled, that wo deplore the loss of out ^ belotc-l brother, and deeply sympathiio will htl herrated relations In our mutual loss.Ilesoln-d, that this budge shall perform tin cercmunhn of tlie Order lit the fumrul of ou deceased brother, to morrow, Sunday the ICtl luld of September lSi5. at 9 o’clock .1. M.I j,..1 Resolved, that this Lodge shall bo hung h jj. black for 30 days, and lhat klho memhert ihal wear tl.eu.ual budgo of mourning for the octhat'uul cosluuitd lime, at a token of respect to the luei irciry of oar hito beloved broths.
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Santa Fe Weekly Gazette

Santa Fe, New Mexico, US

Sat, Sep 22, 1855

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