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Show FACED DEATH A DAY 1 DT Miner Caught in Cave of Butte Mine and Entombed One Thousand Feet Deep. Sleeps to Preserve His Strength While In Imminent Danger and Emerges From His Narrow Prls- on With a Smile on His Face. Butte, Alont. After facing death for twenty-Tour hours. Con Sullivan, a Utah miner, was rescued on Alonday by a force of about fifty miners, who for tho past day had been working In gangs of three and four with feverish fever-ish haste. Sullivan wns on his first shift, having hav-ing como hero from Eureka, Utah, to bury his brother, who was killed by a mlno cave-In nbout threo weeks ago. Ho was working on tho 100-foot level of a section of the Alountaln Consolidated Consol-idated mine when a cave of many tons of rock, covering a distance of over thirty feet, entombed him, narrowly nar-rowly escaping crushing him to death. Hocks kept dropping, but by crouching crouch-ing closo to tho end of the drift ho was ablo to keep out of their way. Ho had barely enough room to stretch himself out nnd with rare presence of mind, though death hovered over him, through many hours of his Imprisonment Imprison-ment ho slept, believing he could thus preservo his strength, ns tho air was rapidly growing bad, and he feared suffocation, By tapping on tho walls Sullivan was nblo to communicate to his fellow-minors that ho was still alive. When the rescuers reached him the man emerged from his narrow prison with a smllo on his countenance and, unassisted, climbed tho ladder to tho top. |
