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Show MAN HIT BY ROCK ON MOUNT LASSEN ,. 18 RESCUED ALIVE I 111 . Coroner on the Way When Call for, Physician Came. Volcano Has Subsided Vlolh, Cal., Juno. 15. Laco Graham tho stockman, crushed by boulders hurled yesterday by Mount Lassen Iaudloft for dead by hla companions on tho Blopo ot the mountain" was nllve this morning and physicians said ho had U chanco for llfo. Ho had a broken collarbone and a 'crush'-ed 'crush'-ed slilo. Consciousness returned to hlni today for the first time since ho was struck down in tho first of yes-fLJ yes-fLJ terday's two eruptions. Tho nioun- tain was quiet this morning. A n Graham nn dtwo companions, E. I E. Phelps and P. A. TIpplo, sawmill men, wero overwhelmed In tho morn- il lug eruption near tho crater. Ashes it shrouded them In blackness so thick that thoy could not sco to floo or I seek sholter. Wrapping thcmsolvos In their coats, to keep as much of the sulphur funics from their lungs fl ns possible, they mado shift as best Kg thoy might to enduro tho peril. When the shower of hshes ceasod falling and the nlr began to clear, Pholps and Tipple could nowhere see Graham. It was somo time beforo tbey found hlra lying fnco down in tho blanket of nowly fallen ashes, with a deep wound in one- sido and apparently lifeless. Graham Is a heavy man, tho moun-Utlnsldo moun-Utlnsldo is rugged climbing and af-tor af-tor dragging tho body down hill a quarter of a iullo, TIpplo and Pholps believing Graham dead, left him sheltered behind a rock and plunged, downward for aid to Mauzaulta Lake four miles farther. From Manzanlta Lako word was telephoned to Bedding for tho coroner. coro-ner. Ho and an undertaker woro sixteen six-teen miles ou their way before they could bo reached with tho news that Graham was allvo and a physician, not an undertaker, was needed. Found Under Blanket of Ashes In tho meantlmo Pholps and TIpplo got help nt Manzanlta Lako from Her-bort Her-bort Mpyers, Frank Smith 'id Frank Schooling, young men front Anderson. Tho flvo climbed back four miles up tho mountain to recover what thoy supposed wns Gruham's corpse. They fpund him covered nn inch deep with ashes, but when his features fea-tures had been wiped clean they saw signs of returning animation. It was then four o'clock In the afternoon about six hours after tho first eruption. erup-tion. Tho flvo lifted, pulled, dragged, and in open spots .carried .the helpless man -four miles to Manzanlta Lake, where they got an automobile to Viola, Vio-la, nine miles distant. It was midnight mid-night before they could get htm medical med-ical attention. |