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Show STAGE GOES OVER A GUFF Ono Man and Three Women Went Over 100-foot Precipice With Vehicle Ve-hicle and Seriously Injured. Yosomlte, Cnl. A four-horso stage coach, carrying eleven passengers, bound to El Portal, the gateway of the Yosomlte National park, went over a cliff Into tho Merced river, n fall of 100 feet, on Sunday. Ono man and throe .women wore carried down with tho stage and injured in-jured seriously. The other passengers passen-gers and tho driver jumped in tlmo. Two horse wore killed. Tho coach was rounding a sharp curve known as Devil's Ulbow, on tho stage road between Yosemltcand 151 Portal. One of tho leaders stumbled and knocked the outside leading horse over tho cliff. Tho whuelcrs and tho stago went over. When the driver saw that tho coach wus. going he called to tho passengers to jump for their lives, at the same tlmo leaping to safety himself. Tlioso who wore carried car-ried over with the coach wore unable to extricate themselves in time. |