Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Sweet, Miley March 1893
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Oregonian March 19,1893
Miley Sweet Killed
The particualrs of the accidental killing of Miley Sweet on the Bull Run 
Pipeline,near Gresham,are as follows:The young man was crushed to death 
beneath a rock weighing about 30 tons.The rock had rolled on to the grade,and 
as it could not be moved it was decided to blast it out of the 
way.J.M.Thomas,Frank and Fred Worstell and Miley sweet were on top of the rock 
for that purpose.Thomas felt the rock moving and called to the others to look 
and out and get off.Thomas and the two Worstells got safely out of danger,but 
Sweet was not alert enough.The rolling rock threw Sweet forward,and he pitched 
to the ground head foremost,when the immense rock,the size of a small 
house,came upon him,completely mashing him.The rock had to be raised and the 
ground dug away before the remians could be taken out,which presented a 
ghastly appearance.It is though that Sweet broke his neck when he pitched off 
the rock.

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