Show HUNDREDS OF MINERS RUN FOR LIFE prescott ariz millions of tons of rock and earth caved in at noon mon day in senator dark united verde copper mine at jerome ariz the ground dropping over the surface to the foot level cracking timbers gave the alarm and three hundred miners fled for their lives and escaped uninjured for several das the ground has been settling and timbers cracking on monday with a mighty crash the earth caved carrying with it the new shaft levels drifts and slopes from fissures on the surface comes clouda ot sulphur smoke from that part 0 the mine which ha been on fire for sev eral years the extent of the damage cannot as yet be ascertained but if it Is as bad as feared the great property will be closed and the existence of jerome will be doomed the hoisting works which are over the mine have settled and the ma chinery cannot be worked the smelt ing plant has also been shut and all activity ceased |