Show A tough iamer lamer night before capt lpt roger stinson had both of his legs lega broker while at work in the chollar crop droppings pings the accident occurred nifty fifty feet below the surface of tte tre ground there were two caves or falls falla of rock when mr stinson n was knocked down and partially covered up by the first his comrades did not mal mai hesitate to run to his assistance and do all in their power to extricate him though a 8 second fall of rock upon the same spot was imminent indeed they were only driven back when the second mass was waa actually in motion falling twice was the unfortunate man covered up in caves of earth and rocks but his friends stood ty him though all about them was crumbling and threatening to come in when he was finally dug out he was of course utterly help lets as regarded locomotion he wai at st once carried baeth back to a place of barety safety when a messenger was sent for a surgeon burgeon As an there waa a shaft fifty acot in depth to bo be ascended and und the only way of reaching the surface was by means of a rope and bucket the minors miners thought that a surgeon could come como do dawni into the mine and in come way eo so mend the legs of their wounded companion as would enable him to td go up in the bucket when the surgeon burgeon came he ald nid aid tad it was no use to try to do anything 9 with the man down in the mine he be must be brought out the miners descended and sei set to work anthe on the problem the strongest st man among them stood erect in the drift when the others othera ef lifted ted stinson upon his backs back with a long rope the two men were then lobed imbed together stinson being BO so placed that his broken legs were well up from fram the ground the miner minor with his living load thus thua lashed upon his backi back baek then got into the bucket and was hoisted to the surface at the surface the woun wounded dedman man wast carried antoan into an old blacksmith d shop and laid upon the ground the surge burge surgeon I 1 then split spilt up bome some old barrel stav staves ois oes and t an caged these splints upon the broken limbs preparatory to placing him upon a wason wagon for yen zeh t C 1 to hig big when laid upon hla hia back in the blacksmiths shop shops instead of howl ing and bellowing about pain stinson asked his companions to fill his pipe and give it to him which be ing done he smoked as calmly as any old indian brave could have done under like circumstances virginia city enterprise |