Show FALLS F IN MINE AND SURVIVES 1 N R Waterman Has Fis a Narrow Harrow Escape From Fr r Death D DROPS DOWN A 9 RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS BUT NOT JOT SERIOUSLY INJURED 4 T B WATERMAN th tb t well nell ell known kown TERM 1 N mining man had a a miraculous mir ulo s 5 escape from a tragic tag death deat at at ato 9 o ock Thursday Thursday morning when he be befell fell feld down wn a of a mine above above Stockton in which he is interested Al Although Although though he was precipitated a distance of about abut feet feet and while in inan Inha an ha a unconscious condition from the ef effects effects effects of his fall nl rolled a few lew fe feet down downa a drift leading from the to the shaft of the mine he be did not sustain a fracture f a bone escaping ng with three scalp wounds wound and numerous numer us bruises At t the time of the accident Mr r Wa Waterman Waterman terman and Judge Edmund Bierer were about to return to Salt Lake While W ie the stage was Wa waiting to take the par party party ty tyr from m the mine to Stockton Mr Wa Va Waterman Vateran terman teran made a a hasty entrance into the thet tunnel t to see what work ork had been done dOn there He had never been in it ft before and did not know that part way w y back there was a which was open Into Ito this the mining man ma stepped and fell feU to the bottom His cry cr attracted the attention of a workman in the shaf house who gave he the alarm alam body bod r when it struck stuck the bottom bottoni of the attracted the attention of a man ma working in the shaft The two workmen and Judge Bierer found Mr Waterman lying in a a semi semiconscious semiconscious conscious condition be between between tween the and the opening Into the shaft shaft He regained his faculties sufficiently to climb clib the seventy feet up the ladder assisted by the two workmen and Judge Bierer When the surface was reached the judge made madean an examination of his friend and satIsfied sat satisfied satisfied himself that no bones were broken broken The dazed condition of 0 Mr Water Waterman Waterman Waterman man caused the that he was injured internally and after he had Bad lad apparently gained his senses he was brought to Salt Lake City as quickly as possible arriving here that evening Dr King who Is attending him says no bones are broken and that as soon as the three scalp wounds are Ire re healed heal d dand and Mr Waterman recovers from front the sn ck sustained by the te awful fall al he be will wi be able to attend to business again Mr Ir Waterman has haz ha no recollection of the a ardent dent The last thing he lie re remembers remembers remembers members Is entering the tunnel From Prom that moment until almost two hours after atter the fall his mind is a blank He does not recollect climbing cl up out of the shaft shaf a distance of seventy f feet t what was as done for him immediately afterward and the time intervening be before before fore he e was taken to t Stockton |