Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-03-27 | Page 1 | Hero of Alta Slide is Dead

HEO OF ATA ALA SLIDE IS DEAD Tho hero of oC tho the Alta AHa la is 1 dead det After 4 making a bravo brave o hr fight against death In freeing no Rosa floss Amherst who succeeded several sc erl miners entombed hy imy a Ud at at Alta three winters ago alO succumbed to the grim monster at Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day morning The b body will 1 b he 1 sent to Carnegie Pa tomorrow and will t 1 bo be ac accompanied accompanied ac- ac companied b by his t Ido widow The Time story stor of or the part Jat Amherst played In the time Alta ilta I Is on ono one of ol tho the thrilling thrilling thrill thrill- ing inE episodes in jn mining history of or th this th tato When In the bl big ah a avalanche came cammie tearing down the mountain side Ide ho was asleep In on one onn of or Limo Iho buildings cont containing a lar large e number r of mali n. In Tho h. structure Amherst was hut but wa was t completely uninjured Although l nearly suffocated rI r. r t I time t hearth board arli wall ho ito braced himself against of ot I his ns narrow ow prison audI and forced forcell his way Y out and almost n naked kM he lie helt heM M set lt t to tn work to io j save o avo others In tho the building d dIn effort ort ho lie B By almost herculean several hut but Ju in the meantime In ln eral 1 il t two had hal halh h been n smothered to Lea th to The work worl was wal such fuh a strain ln on ona ona ona hard a as his that t tIt a constitution even e cn a as M hardy It cost COt him his health and anti ataxia was time the result of or the time exposure death After suffering for many months claimed him Thursa Thursday