Show A very serious in the snowflake m ne atao clock abie inday afternoon resulting in the death of matt james H chinn ras also very seriously injured that he did not meet the same fate as his partner ie due to hie rare presence of mind and extraordinary nerve the two men were being hoisted out of the liine and it is thought that cne of the drills which they were taking to the surface caught in the timbers of the shaft the shook caused Sun to fall from the cage and he pitched to h s death in the bottom of the shaft over feet below chinn was wedged in between the timbers and the cage when the latter was brought to a itoi had engineer joe alien been a m nute liter in stopping the cage chinn s body would have been cut in two notwithstanding the fact that the man s left leg was horribly crushed beleen the knee and ankle the flesh torn from h s right thigh and his body bruised in various platea he gave the ng nal to lower the cage slowly cordei that he might release h iselt chis he did do and then gave th signal which brought h m to the surface ur hensel was summoned and the injured man was givan every attention ie and removed to h a home he has since been removed to a ho and an diffort will be male to aeve his leg mr ch nn ie one of the best known miners in gintic tintic recently moved here from the body of was removed from the bottom of the shaft eoon as poss ible every laree bone in his body is broken and in the all 10 the bottom of the ehatt both shoes stripped from bis feet banquist bun quist came to eureka re bently from park city where he has a wife residing he was a member of the ark city minere union william hatfield and isaae goolt of the snowflake mining co are out from bait I 1 ake te attend the inquest mr woolf called upon rs chinn and made prone one for looking after her needs judge lindsay hag empanelled a coro ner s jury and au inquest is being held to inquire into the accident ine are E bowen frank barret and lee hopper |