Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....CONNELLY, John L. January 1922
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Las Vegas Age - 1/7/1922
ST. THOMAS MAN PERISHED ALONE IN THE MOUNTAINS



    John L. CONNELLY, well known in Clark County, was found dead in the 

hills east of St. Thomas January 2.  He had been working at the Grand Gulch 

mine, and on December 21, he left there with a four horse team intending to 

take a load of fence timbers to St. Thomas, and expecting to reach his 

destination the 23d.

    A week later his brother Charles left the mine for St. Thomas and when 

about six miles out found John's wagons and two horses where he had camped. 

After investigating, Charles decided that the other horses had run away and 

that his brother had followed them.  It was very stormy and he decided that, 

in all probability he had overtaken them in the vicinity of St. Thomas and 

had gone on there.

    When Charles reached St. Thomas he found that his brother had not 

arrived.  A search party was immediately started out and at ten o'clock 

Monday morning, Jan. 2, they found the body.

    Everything indicated that he had not been able to catch the horses, and 

that while chasing them he had fallen and struck his head on a rock.  He 

evidently died without a struggle.  He had been dead ten days when found, 

and his body had been badly mutilated by coyotes.

    The deceased leaves a wife and four small children.  The body was buried 

at St. Thomas, Friday, January 6.











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