Show ALARMING ACCIDENT A WAGON 4 LOADED WITH rook ROCK DESCENDS tue THE MOUNTAIN at sidn A HORSE KILLED AND TWO ME men mex J NARROWLY ESCAPE A singular accident which might I 1 easily casity have a ve had a more serious termination terin 1 nat ll 11 happen happened cd yesterday yest erda morning about ten on the slope siope of th bench southwest south west wesl of ensign reak feak it appears that teams have been in tile the habit of loading up with rock oil on the bench and then descending r a short cut leading leadin down the backbone of one of the narrow ridges in the vicinity of red hollow to the tho wagon road below several wagons accomplished accomplish ea the feat successfully on tuesday and yesterday morning a at t the tho time above rne rue mentioned 0 ned there were two teams oil on the mountain side hide one on the bench above belonging to amr a mr stanford and another in the gulch below owned by mr G F atkins both of whom were engaged in putting on their respective loads Mr Stanford that part of the job started down the ridge when the jb rakes brakes of his hla wagon being bem insecure d past the wheels and and crowded the loaded vehicle upon the horses the heavy weight was too much for tor the animals to keep back and the momentum of the wagon increasing every instant they were speedily overpowered and ana the vehicle being diverted from its course was hurled down into the tho gulch guich almost immediately opposite the e wagon of mr adir atkins mr stanford had luckily I 1 lumped off some distance above and mr r atkins seeing what was coming left his team just in in time to escape the falling mass it struck the bottom of the gully about jour four feet away from his team which was well peppered with the flying boulders and the horses so badly injured as to unfit them for immediate service but it fared far worse with the stanford team in their flight down the hill the tongue of the wagon was broken and a piece of it ran rail into and instantly killed one of the helpless beasts as it lay struggling under the rock laden vehicle to which it was ivas attached As soon as practicable another team was obtained obtain iid lid and the two wagons minus their loads were dragged out of the gulch and down into the road below it was a narrow escape for the drivers and the only thing surprising in the mat matter teris is that in view of an opportunity for a fearful catastrophe the result was so comparatively insignificant ant our informant is mr J 11 van natta of the ward a resident in the vicinity where the accident occurred |