Mercur Miner | 1905-09-13 | Page 7 | Buried by Life Preservers |

Type	issue
Date	1905-09-13
Paper	Mercur Miner
Language	eng
City	Mercur
County	Tooele
Category	Mining
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK	ark:/87278/s6669cmg
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6669cmg

Article Title	Buried by Life Preservers
Type	death
Date	1905-09-13
Paper	Mercur Miner
Language	eng
City	Mercur
County	Tooele
Category	Mining
Page	7
OCR Text	Burled by Life Preservers. Ilfo preservers came near being tho death of two men In Long iBland City yesterday afternoon, sayB a New York dispatch. Tho men were In a buck-board buck-board automobile and woro In n hurry to catch a Thirty-fourth street ferry boat. Tho machines rushed down Hon den avenue and swung around tho corner, cor-ner, at the Long Island railroad station, sta-tion, on two wheels. As tho autamobllo shot across tho plaza In front of tho ferry cntranco a largo baggage truck, heaped high with llfo preservers, camo along, pushed by half a dozon porters. Tho baggage truck struck tho automobile amidships and tho load of llfo preservers turn bled on top of tho two men In tho automobile. au-tomobile. They shouted for help, but their cries were quickly stilled by tho llfo preservers. A big crowd saw tho accident, and when they had recovered from laughing laugh-ing tho two men wero rescued. They escaped with crushed hats and a fow scratches. They declined to give tholt names.
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6669cmg/5190986