Show S E SMITH an employee of the marion mine had a narrow escape from being buried alive in the number three shaft of that mine last night he wag pushing a car out from the face of the drift when a portion of the hanging wall gave way carrying a heavy boulder with it which must have weighed at least a ton the shafts in this mine and in the geyser as well are said to be very poorly timbered and consequently unsafe when smith turned and saw what a terrible fate he be had bad escaped he sank on his knees and offered thanks to the almighty ruler who had preserved him mercur miner |