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Show LOSES LIFE GETTING BUCKET OF WATER. H. P. Martin Killed by Gases In Por-tola Por-tola Tunnel; Agent Rendered , Unconscious. PORTOLA, CAU, June 3. H. V. Martin was killed by gases last Saturday Sat-urday In tho Chllcoot tunnel on the Western Pacific railroad. The tunnel has been on fire for several days. Agent Martin of .Rainbow, tho station at the east end of tho tunnel, went In and dragged out Martin's body. Ho Inhaled so much ot the fumes that ho was rendered unconscious and has been hurried to a lower altitude In cho hope of saving hts lite. Martin ventured Into tho loug cut at the east cud of the tunnel to get a bucket of water from a spring for men working on tho "ahoo-fly" track. He knew his danger and before stait-Ing stait-Ing told Agent Morton the names ot relatives whom he wanted notified If ho failed to conio back. SAN FRANCISCO, Juno 3. Officials Offi-cials of the Western Pacific Railway company hero nnnounccd today that tho Bhoo-fly track, built to carry trains nround tho burned Chllcoot tunnel, tun-nel, had been completed and that trains would bo run over It tomorrow. Tho first train to run according to schcdulo. will be the through passenger, passen-ger, which will lea'vc San Francisco at 9:10 o'clock In the morning. |