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Show SMOTHESED TO DEATH IN CAVE-IN OF SAND. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 11-Mark Cohn, a schoolboy, was smothered to death today. 'In company with other lads he dug a cave in the side of a sand hill near his home, and while alone In It the overhanging wall fell and buried him. His companions vainly tried to dig him out with boards and then sought assistance. assist-ance. A gang of workmen near by quickly responded, but young Cohn was almost lifeless when taken out. and soon died. The boy's father is Mark L. Cohn, a tobacco to-bacco agent. The family came from Portland. Ore., last fall. . . , . |