Deseret Evening News | 1898-04-28 | Page 8 | Mercur Miner Killed

I MERCUR MINER KILLED John Olsen Tails Sixty Fed to His Death In the Mcrci Mine John Olson an experienced minot met his death In the Mercur mine yes trday 11 I falling sixty fet down n winze TTle man uns working on the 100Coot Tel of of the Resolute Incline and he and his rather Chariot hal jut Prepared some shots to loosen the mineral Charles went to the surface to hoist Ills brother to the top v hen the signal would be given find was prepared In that work when John slipped from the rope and wa precipitated to tlu bot um a distance of sixty feet While fallIng fall-Ing he shots went off and Johns body Was Afterwards found burled In the loose dirt Life was extinct An inqu cat before n coroners jury brought out 0 verdict oC accidental oath The doccaxed h1 two brothers In the campChrl and Otton1 all here are well known miners John Ila forty Years of ago ont unmnlel 111 body wn > brought to this city for Intel nlenL