Salt Lake Times | 1890-12-20 | Page 10 | Men and Horses Fall 110 Feet

tho liglitning flashed they were enabled to see thu road at ull. Suddenly there was tt brilliant flash of lightning, followed by a deafening peal of thunder, which stunned the men and (teemed to stagger tho horses. Before they could recover from tho nhock the horses und wagon fell over a precipice, aud all went down a distance of 1 10 feet. Homo men who were parsing heard tin cries of distrvM and wvm to their asust-iinie. asust-iinie. They found the ni'Mi and the horses and wagon in A deep hollow, more than one hundred feet below where the road passes the top of the precipice. Wilson was almost unconscious, while his companion lay near him bruised and bleeding. One of tho horses was dead I and the other so bidly crippled that it I had to be killed. The wagon and the I coffin were both wnnslied to pieces. The men were got ten out of tho place and taken to their homes. Wilson is the : most seriously injured, and it. is thought ! lie cannot live. Martin's injuries are of ! a serious nat ure, and his recovery is a : matter of considerable doubt. Louis-' Louis-' villo Commercial. Men and bones Fall HO Feet. James Wilson and John Martin, residing resid-ing near Edwardsville, went to New Albany Al-bany recently1 to procure a coffin in which to bury James Routh. On their eturn from the city the heavy rain Itorm came up. and the sky became so dark that they were unable to see tho Dad ahead of them, and they trusted to their horses to tike them safely along the dangerous highway. At the point where the storm overtook them the road winds around the high hills, and in many places passes near high precipices. The rain was pouring down in torrents, and it was only when j