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Show A MIUAIUI.DUS KhUAl'K Iroui Dralli In a Itrrililn l'.ill of Two Ihoiiiattd led. Thero aro many accounts ot persona falling great distances without auk-talnlugasrloua auk-talnlugasrloua luury but the following follow-ing neut from Red CHU, Colorado, to the Denver A'cwi under dato of the 7 til lust., Is one of the molt Improoablo on record: About noon today occurred, about four milts from hero, on tho llattle mountain road, what may prove a fatal accident lo Pierce Crane, an old-tinier In these jntLflulid a will known nnd highly injected ranch and cattleman, rcilJIng near Mluturn lu thla couoty. The gentleman was driving n cow home,whlchhadstrayed to a lnt hear (lllmin. Crane was riding n rather wild pony. Borne trcuble no doubt occurred Hi thu management of at Unit one of the animals, aud In endeavoring to right raatlera Mr. Crane, together with tho pony, was hurled ovir thu precipice at a Hjlnt called Hole In the ltock. fho pouy waa killed In the fall and was found about forty (let dow n, but Its uufortunate rider continued his awful deicouttJ thu HI Uraude rail-rjnd rail-rjnd track, which travcrsie the canyon tlUUi) feet fiorn the top of thu cllu". Heru thu lusoualnle form of Crono waa found, probably half an hour alter Ihonctldent. It waa at once u nvejed lo tbu 1-agle hotel, nt this place, and medical aid summoned. An evanilna. lion (ailed to dlicover any tonus broken, except, possibly, lhat ot the nose, but inuuybrulicsnud cuta wore dlsciuicd ubcut the head, face and body. Al a late hour the victim la still un. comclous and what the outcome of hie perilous full will be, rcmilns to be seen, luternul Injuries may exist which wlllpruvofatil. It reema ullioit n nilraclu that a human being could fall n dlilance of SJUUU feet down the sleep and rocky Incline und eacapo Instant deuth. |