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Show fllER'S TRAGIC END L .... IN PROSPECT HOLE, MINER STARVES TO DEATH. Lived for a Week With Limbs Crushed, Leaving Diary Giving Account of Accident and Tortures Tor-tures Due to Hunger. Bridgeport, Cal. His left leg brol;ni and crushed and held, immovable im-movable by a fall of rock in a prospect pros-pect hole on his lonely mining claim twelve miles north of this place, j. J. D. Miller, recently of Harrisburg Va., died a horrible death of hungei and exposure. Miller, whose limbs were broken by the fall and whose body was found in a standing position, left a diary written on the back or an assay cer tificate. The first entry was made October 6. The last, reading "Nc hope," was dated October 13. , The body was found Monday. Miller had been working alone or his claim in the Patterson district and had sunk a shaft to a depth ol twelve or fourteen feet. The falling quartz had either causht him un aware, or he had been unable in the narrow pit, to avoid it. The diary, scrawled with a pencii against the rough wall of the shaft contained a daily entry. Beginning with a" brief . account of the disastei which imprisoned him, Miller set down each day a record of the tor tures inflicted by his crushed leg ana the increasing gnawings of hunger Although realizing from the first that the lonely location of the prospect hole which the accident had trans formed into a death cell practically made outside aid impossible, he maintained a courageous and unbroken un-broken spirit -even down to the last almost illegible entry. |
