Show gaj TERRIFIC Primi Fic i iungen A dro dreadful adful accident happened on last tuesday afternoon on the line of tile the county IV water iter compa nys ditch about a mile above columbia lumbia A colored man named john I tardy hardy while attempting to pass over ovel the companas Comp anys bume it at a point where it commences a descent of a mountain at an an ana anale angla le of about thirty dc degrees grees 0 fell in and fn an an instant was swept to the bottom a distance of about forty rods and thence through a g gate ate into the ditch the unfortunate man was hurried through a second gate into the sawmill saw mill fat ditch before his body could be recovered ho he waa W as probably instantly killed when lie he struck the bottom of the chute its as tile top of his he head id was all smashed in he was not iu in the water more than two minutes but if lie he had gone over the falls of niagara int instead tead lin hn would have had about 0 an equal chance for life columbia courier |