Bingham News | 1923-09-08 | Page 5 | Buried Five Minutes and Lives

Buried Flvs Mlnutss, and Lives. Burled alive by a landslide for about five minutes, a laborer of Mitchell, Mitch-ell, 8. D though severely bruised and Injured, lives to tell the tale. He was working In ap eight-foot ditch In which water mains are being laid, when a Inndsllde occurred In which he wa eiiuglit. He called for help as the soft grtivel pinned him down, but It was five minutes before he could be dug out. The gravel caught and pinned him In an 'upright position and the dirt whs piled thn-e feet nt;ove his head. The Inndsllde broke hU shoulder, shoul-der, fractured his Jielvls and dislocate J his right hip, nnd hi fellow laborers. In digging him out, made numerous bruises and wounds on his head, face and body with their hurp shovels. I. .. ..