| Show BIa CA VE IN AT lAMMOTt MINE Great A Av lanche of Rock and Timber Goes Crashing from the Thirteen to the lie Seventeen Level Miners Narrow Escape SP SPECIAL CIL TO TIlE TUE NEWS Mammoth Fob Feb was as a great eveln here at the Mammoth mine maine nt at atan an early hour last evening that came near sending nine nino men inca to ther their deaths That Ule they csap escaped a as the they did Is ac accounted accounted counted for tor only b by the fact that nature varned them of the catastrophe that tot for the moment hung over Oer hem As AB It vav nl ani only one man mau Wi was A Lindsay who was Ins comee conveyed to Sal Salt Lake b by train this morning and taken to St SI Marks arka for treatment Js Injuries consist of several serious fractures of oC the right leg and seine sevro severe bodily bruIses bruise This Is how the accident occurred 4 A great mass of rock and 1 a mountain of vOn on the tho t teen n hunted hundred fot foot Th Tb fourt fourteen n hundred tot foot level leel was struck with t tre tremendous menous for force and It It too gave way war as dil did the tho fifteenth and sixteenth nth each adding to the volume and velocity of the great avalanche until the seln seven seventeen teen hundred foot level IOel was reached and where It WI vas stopped Lindsay anti eight other miners were working between the sixteenth nth and se sev seventeenth hundred toot Coot levels and heard anti felt the avalanche start start Instantly they a host hast retreat rn run running ning for tor theIr lives n as the roar of oC the moving mass maSA came closer rr and closer AI All su succeeded In getting tO te tOa cor e a point of except Lindsay who was AS behind his comrades and whO was wal caught ly by th the extreme olter outer ele edge of the falling As quickly as possible squads of miners were er put to work to te nue him bIn from hIs perilous p positIOn I a Ituk task tuk that o occupied two hour hours of Indus indu Industrious and dangerously performed labor dangerous on cit account of the liability ot of another orth earth slide JUde lut But he nis fin tully got out apparently more dead than nil anti amI hoisted from rota the mine rind and made as an comfortable IS as possible for or the night b by Dr Miner lnor who sho attended him The slide occurred In on nn abandoned or out vart of th the mine An AnIS amid was IS caused b by decaying timbers Inquiry lt at St Marks hospital afternoon disclosed the fact that the fracture of leg w compound In 1 Its character and that an 6 at the limb will t doubtless be ti thus evening Lindsay Is thirty OS OSage l lage age anti and n a man of Camly family the local of ci the mine lo todar nl stated that I it did not amount to n a great deal anti nf In I a or abandoned of f th the ainI mains It would In no way r r tar tard ur or hInder ol operations I |
