Show I LADDER WAS ROTTEN Mining Man Falls to Bottom of Shaft and Is Killed Salt Lake City George L Moats vicepresident of the Ranck Real l Estate Es-tate Improvement company of Salt Lake and well known In mining circles cir-cles in this city met his death in an accident at the Four Metals mine al Dugway Tooele county Wednesday afternoon Mr Moats who was Interested Inter-ested in the Four Metals property was visiting It on a tour of Inspection lIe went down the shaft to tho 300 foot level In safety and then started down a ladder to tho bottom of the shaft a distance of about 100 feet Tho ladder was old and rotten ann when Mr Moats had descended about fifteen feet It gave way under him and he fell to the bottom of the shaft a distance of abgut 85 feet his body being terribly crushed and mangled n |