Show 4 I 1 WAS SLOWLY BURIED ALIVE AWFUL FERTIL F ERTIL OF A MINER AT ADVILLE Lb COLORADO was held do by FI irl e dirt which con tinned to file pile up around him 1 while friend friends were to rescue him william cumm a ng aged 97 7 years was entombed in a cave in in the yan kee Doodle shaft near leadville at atIO 10 45 tuesday morning at in he had not been rescued and there is no hope of getting him out alive he is buried feet below the surface he was married last christmas cumming was working in an upraise and cut into an old slope the walls of the slope began crumbling and falling about h in five men were work ing in the below h hm in and they were force fori el I 1 back by the fall of d rt and rock the rock began piling up on the adge and stalls on vh ch ell cum ming stood abose wording borin worin with him were able to see him and talk to him until the rock reached his waist lie ile was held down by the weight of the material vh ch seemed not to p ie up any higl higi er on his body but to slide past h in closing up the entrance to the the men worked heroically in an endeavor to shovel away the waste as it of the slope continued crumbling faster than the waste co id be removed gumming cumming talked to the nen i antil he was finally cut off by the closing of the entrance to the he ile kept repeating boys I 1 in a goner and it a no use boys fie sen tender and messages to h s wife |