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Show DEATH BY ACAVK I S TIXT1C. j ,'Ke-ul:if Currcuiontk-iMo of ilm Herald. - Su.veii Cnr, TiNtir, ! September I lih, 1 sT 1 . Editors Ihrahi: Yesterday the :Jiali on the Martha Washington caved in, burying beneath a muss of rock and t-arth a young man iby tho name of A. M. Lafollett, a'cd j J;i years, whose life was apparently Crushed out instantaneously. A luri'e rock was laying on his brcn-t and had tell direct !y owt his ln-iut, riii.-liiji.tr in the ribs, Lri-iicl bone and hhouMer blade. Death mui havo been iiuuie-'diatc. iiuuie-'diatc. from conversations the youni; . man had with his brother miners the . nitdil pieviuu.i, it almost appears us though he had a presentiment of his coming death. On Saturday la-it he . received a letter from his sister, residing resi-ding at Ashley Mills, Intl., informing 1 him of his father's illness and request-I request-I ing his return home, lie began mak-! mak-! ing preparations to return home, and went to work on Sunday morning. About an hour before his death he came up out of tho shaft, and upon starting back into the shaft he remarked re-marked to the man working with him, that if he had but liftecn dollars more ho would not go Into the shaft ajjain. Lafollett was a young man much respected re-spected in the district. To-day a place half a mile south of this town was selected se-lected as a burial spot, and on a beautiful beau-tiful flat beneath the spreading shade of an evergreen cedar, tho iirst grave in tho Tinlic district was dug by the comrades aud friends of the departed one; aud at one o'clock to-day the remains re-mains were followed to tho grave by a large body of sympathiazing miners. The scene was au impressive ono to thorn. The thought of the young man, laid away in Ins quiet grave far from the home of his childhood, with no relative to perform tho last act of kindness; tho thought of how he died, and a hundred qthor reflection passing through the miud, brought many a throb of sympathy and sorrow to the hearts of men who are accustomed to look death in the face calmly in almost a thousand varied forms. A few appropriate ap-propriate remarks were made at the grave by Mr. Sutherland, of this town. Tho effects of tho young man aro in charge of Justice Wilson. We have communicated with the relations of the deceased, statinjf all particulars. This affair has caused a deep gloom throughout through-out the district. A. G. |