Show Man Killed l Hurt HurtIn Ire In Mine Mille Accident A 28 year old man was killed and year 27 old man badly in in- in injured both from Vernal Mon day about am am when water broke through an old tion hole and flooded n a shaft at atthe atthe the Bonanza vein on American Gilsonite Co property KILLED WAS Pat Merlin was treated at Uintah County hospital and then transferred to the Salt Lake Hospital where he was reo re- reported ported critical with a broken brokenleg brokenleg leg and other injuries A third man working in the shaft Alden Bristol 22 also alsofrom alsofrom from Vernal escaped without injury The men involved were em of A M Ill Boren con con- contractor tractor Vernal They were working in the shaft when water broke through a 20 inch 20 inch churn drill hole nearby and falling timber swept loose by the water struck the two men A COMPANY official said that the water broke through at a point passed by mining opera opera- operations last March Workers earl earl- earlier ier had probed the wall of the shaft but were unable to locate the exploration hole The shaft was believed to have been below the bottom of the old exploration hole |