Show DUNCAN GILLIS MEETS I DEATH IN SILVER KI KING G Fell FH ThirtY Thirty Seven Seven Feet and L Lay Y Helpless s for Hours Before Assistance Reached Him t Iun Duncan nn GUlls Gillis who has lias been the foreman of or the Silver King mine forces at rk Pl cyer C ty c er since the bonanza bonanza was as open opened ell thirteen years a ago o met with an ana a accident cj t yesterday which ca' ca caused hl his d death hours later The accident oc- oc on the foot SOO-foot level Jovel of the mine shortly after noon Gulls Gillis had gone ono to the tho foot SOO level el with a number of the miners to make some fome measurements and when hen the they thc l last sl saw him he was making a sounding of or n a chute In walking across to another chute on a n plank he lost host his balance and anil fell tell to the bottom a 3 distance of oC twenty seven feet feel S Supposing that he hail had g pone gone ne to another part of or the mine the men thou thought ht nothing of ot his and It was not untIl his wife became alarm alarmed d over o his absence nt at night and sent sent to the mine for Information concerning him that Ills fellow fehlo workmen realized that an accident must have hae befallen him It was then that the tue entire force was ordered underground round to search for II hii who was found shortly after at the bottom of or the fatal chute chule He lIe was unconscious un un- conscious and although h medical aid was s secured at once he never ne le regained consciousness and died shortly after The c deceased who was wasa a er very er popular man and splendid miner leaves a wife rife and sl six six- Ix children In addition to n a large larse number of friends to mourn hl his los loss S Senator Kearns Keirns In whose employ Mr GIllis had been heen for so man many years ear was much affected over o the news new of or his death Tho The tun funeral ral will take place at al Park City at t 7 o'clock tomorrow morning and the remains will then thep be brought to Salt Lake on a special train for Interment at al Calvary alvar cemetery |