Washoe County NV Archives Obituaries.....Pratt, Samuel October 4, 1888
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Reno Evening Gazette October 5, 1888
Died of Injuries
Samuel Pratt, the telegraph operator who fell into the hot springs yesterday,
died at Wadsworth last evening.  Sanders sent a casket to receive the remains on
this morning’s express.  They were sent to Salt Lake for interment.

Reno Evening Gazette
October 6, 1888
How It Happened
Further Particulars Regarding the Death of Pratt, the Hot Springs Operator
Wadsworth, Nev. Oct. 5, 1888
Editor Gazette.—C. S. Pratt, a telegraph operator at Hot Springs, was relieved
at that place yesterday morning for the purpose of taking a similar position at
Teano. While waiting for the east bound passenger train, he said he would go
over to the Springs and take a bath.  As he was absent longer than was necessary
and the train time drew night, the lady operator sent a Chinaman to call him. 
The Chinaman came running back and reported that he had found Pratt near the
Springs with his clothes on, crazy and badly scalded.  The man was brought to
Wadsworth on a special, but he was beyond the physician’s aid and died at 4:15
P.M.  During sane moments he made several contradictory statements to Judge
Angus.  One to the effect that he went to the Springs and sat on the bank to
rest; he was overcome by the heat and fell in, but succeeded in climbing out. 
He also told a second and probably true story, to the effect that he had become
morbid through continual night work and jumped into the hot water to commit
suicide.  A post mortem examination revealed the fact that the body and members
were literally cooked by the hot water.  He was a young man, probably
twenty-five years of age, and has relatives in Utah.  Report says he is a member
of the family of the well-known Mormon, Orson Pratt, of Salt Lake City.  The
remains were shipped there for interment.


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