Show f MINERS HEAD IS FRACTURED Unfortunate Man Falls to Pavement While in a Fit and Receives Injuries that May Cause His Death Patsy Drake a miner who came into I the city from RliiKtmni was stricken with three severe epileptic fits within an hour last evening lie received a se vero blow on the bark of his head through striking1 I hi pnvempjit when he fell the second lime I Dr E 1 Thorn who wua Humnioned found that the unfortunate man had evidently evident-ly suffered L 1 concussion oC the brain through the fall At a late hour last night he was not expected to live Drake wllh a couple of acquaintance acquain-tance was strolling west on Second South about 9 oclock apparently In the best of health At a point nciir West Temple lie suddenly toppled over and Ills acquaintances rushed off for assistance However Drake got up In a moment and made his way around the rornrr and Hotith I half a block where he fell again He was found in a few moments lying unconscious In a pool uf blood which was trickling from a cash in his head It was evident that the injury had boon caused through violent umiUiet with the pavement pave-ment Drake was currlod Into the Eagle imp stoic whore Or Thorn attended at-tended him In 1 a ivv i moments III regained consciousness When ills wound had been dressed he started eastward again under the escort of two friends The trio had got little farther than half a block when Drake ngalu became unconscious He was carried into a back room of tho Comstock saloon sa-loon where ho was seized with severe convulsions Dr Thorn was again called and he worked over the unconscious uncon-scious man for nearly two hours but Drake did not regain consciousness He was finally removed from the hard floor of the saloon lo the Holy Cross hospital At u late hour he was still unconscious and In comulslons |