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Show IE FACED DEATH ' A DAY M N1CHT Alincr Caught in Cave of Butte Aline and Entombed One Thousand Feet Deep. Sleeps to Preserve His Strength While In Imminent Danger and Emerges From His Narrow Prison Pris-on With a Smile on His Face. c Dutte, Mont. After facing death for twenty-rour hours, Con Sullivan, n Utah minor, wns rescued on Monday by a forco of about fifty miners, who fpr tho past day had been Working In gangs of threo and four with fevor lsh haste. Sullivan was on his first shift, having hav-ing como hero from Eureka, Utah, to bury his brother, who was killed by a tnlno cave-In nbout threo wcoks ago. He was working on tho 100-foot level ot a section of tho Mountain Consolidated Consol-idated mlno when a cave or many tons ot roclc, covering a dlstanco of ovpr- thirty feet, entombed him, narrowly nar-rowly escaping crushing him to death. Rocks kept dropping, but by crouching crouch-ing closo to tho end of tho drift ho was nbld to keep out of their way. Ho had barely enough room to stretch himself out and with rare presence of mind, though death hovered over 'him, through many hours of his Imprisonment Imprison-ment ho slopt, believing he could thus presorvo his strength, as tho nlr was rapMdly growing bad, and ho feared tfuffocatlon. ' ' , Dy tapping on tho walls Sullivan was ablo to communicate to bis fol-low-miners that ho was still alive. When tho rescuers reached him tho , man emerged from his narrow prison with a Binllo on his countonnuco nnd, unassisted, climbed tho ladder to tho top. |
