Show 1 i FATAL ACCIDENT f John Robertson of Fountain Greeni Green n i i Killed by Falling Rock at Ir Mammoth Reservoir The first first- accident of of any any conse- conse at the site of the Mammoth Reservoir enterprise since work has been under way there happened hap hap- happened yesterday morning ning at 10 It was caused caused by a r rock lock ck tricking a flume under which John Robertson of Fountain Green was lying The force of ot the blow was so strong that th the e t concussion fractured the skull o othe of f the unfortunate man magi and ho died last evening at ocl ck The accident was peculiar in the extreme Thirteen shots of giant powder had bad been een pl putted placed ced and made macIo ready for foi firing ing and th signal signal sig sig- nal Dal hud hard g given The shots Were were vere in the tho bottom of the canyon and all nil of the woi workmen kmen excepting i Mr Robertson and a young man named Fuller from Fairview ran up the mountain side several hundred yards to avoid the falling rocks which would follow the ex These two T young pi men Went up 11 a n. gulch a p distance di tance of v r about thirty yards and crawled und under r a largo large Hume flume expecting that tha that would afford them ample protection The flame flume was Dla made of lumber two inches thick 1 he two men forced force their way up under un under un un- der del it on one side of the gully Robertson in front with his face almost on the ground and the back of his head hoad against the tile flume Home above The Tho third shot in the tho creek below sent a rock weighing probably 35 pounds into the the air air adi a di distance of about SO 80 feet judged by the men men who were further up the tho m mountain side and who witnessed witnessed witness i sed its flight In falling failing the rot rock It struck the flume immediately above Robertson's head with i ter terrific r rifle for force e splitting the heavy boards und and flying into tile the air airI I n a a distance of 20 feet on the re rebound Robertson's face fuce fell into the dirt I and his body quivered convulsively convulsive ly as a result of f the concussion from the h blow ow bu butt but buthe he uttered no sound Fuller S saw yaw W that he was bad badly y hurt and called a loudly l for or help None was at hand f or sometime some sometime time however owing to the d dan dan- dan danger oer o- o ger er from tb the remain remaining i iI ing- ing K Kiji unfired i shots L As soon as possible the injured man was taken to his cabin and attention given him He lie i regained consciousness for n a couple of hours during the tho day but afterward relapsed relapsed re re- relapsed re- re lapsed into a state of coma in which he remained until tho the end c came me Dr Ray Hay was called and arrived there thero thereat at 5 o'clock but out as tho the skull was badly fractured and tho the mans man's life ebbing rapidly he ho i could do nothing The Tho entire camp was in a state of excitement last last night when visited by a Pyramid reporter Robertson had been there all aU summer summer summer sum sum- mer and was well veil thought of by byi his leis associates tes His wife wile had been there with him and was at his side until the end Her gel lamentations lamenta and sobbing utterances were pitiful to hear Mr Robinson was 21 2 years of age and his wife ife 2 23 They have no children He was a son of Jf Ed Robertson of Fountain Green and und was anion among the foremost young men of the place The remains Remains were taken home this m morning and the fun- fun r wilP fi fie ij Wit held l' l tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow- W ail iY dAy a Pyramid id t |