Show SENATOR THOMAS TELLS OF BIG TUMBLE i I 1 to tumble down a mine shaft to 1 I 1 a depth equal to the height of a fifteen story skyscraper Is a trick anybody can turn if lie he Is careless enough around a mining camp s said ald senator charles S thomas of colorado who Is one of the most eminent mining lawyers in the west and also one of pa the early settlers sett lera in the centennial state rut but to come through such an experience peri ence alive Is a feat few can call achieve lie ho continued yet that la Is just what happened to a man I 1 knew in colorado A fellow named A jim dorris of leadville performed this fall of man act in 1891 and went through an experience enough to kill ten men yet came out as chipper as though he had been lying in a feather bed jim slipped d at the top of the shaft of f the cleora mine and fell a sheer feet to the hard rock bottom while bile a I 1 pound ore bucket rame me clattering down on top of him of course we all thought he would have to be brought up again ift a box but jim came out with only a few severe bruises |