Show LEAP SAVED HIS LIFE narrow escape of a laborer in a trench CAVE IN NEARLY BURIED HIM eurt burt palmer while working in a sewer ditch on fourth east raid paid no head to warning until it was almost too late then no he made blade a spring upward that prevented tho the falling failing dirt from covering him above tho waist held there tor for an hour I 1 i burled to his eidlic in a caved ln in sewer for romily neaily an hour yesterday morning burt palmer FL laborer bravely directed his big comrades in tile the work of digging him out when final finally ly treed freed from the clu blushing shing fetters of 0 treacherous sand lip hr and his follows fellows laid him film the turf beneath the trees where a phy physician ph HIcIan worked over him until he revived weak meak but apparently otherwise unhurt tile the ac accident occurred on fourth east street beaw con brichan ri and first south where inhere contractor 11 II D folsom Is constructing a sewer rainier palmer was working on the bottom of the nine a and nd a halt half toot trench taking out the last few inches ot of sand the bank did not look too safe and folsom ordered rainier out until timber limber could be put in there were but one or two awe shovel fuls of ft earth to demoe and palmer said haiti that lie he thought it would mould be all right and it d act at work mark A handful of 0 sand detached itself from tile the cast wall midway up the side and again folsom called down a warning in just a minute replied palmer A section rc if the wall a toot squire gave W way and fell with a swish into the trench palmer looked up threw his long spade out and ran for his life but it was too late thore there was a dull cracking and as rainier palmer lea leaped ped frantically into the air grap ping at the gravel above him a section of the trench twenty feet long boomed down upon him ills lea lcara saved ills his life tor for tile the mass of sand caught him in midair pinning him helpless against the west wall and covering him to the waist the other men rallied quickly to his rescue and despite the weight of earth that pressed upon him palmer quietly assisted them by advice and su suggestion ages while they reed freed him f from m his roe prison dr S 13 young atter attended d lit him M when he was wait finally taken out and after he recovered reco ered from his h 1 I faint he way was taken in a hack to his big home at west second south 8 treet street pal palmer n cr is if a man it Is thought that his big terrible excellence will not result seriously |