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Show oo LOSES LIFE GETTING ' BUCKET OF WATER Portola, Cal., June 1. H. P. Mar-" Mar-" tin was killed by gases last Saturday In tho Chllcoot tunnel on the Wcptorn Pacific ralfroad. Tho tunnel has been on fire for severa) days. Agent Melon Me-lon of Rainbow, the station at the eaat of tho tunnel, wont in nnd dragged out Martin's body. Ho inhalod so much of the fumes that he was rendered unconscloue and was hurried to a lower low-er altitude in tho hope of saving his life. I Martin ventured into the long cut at l the east end of the tunuel to get a bucket of water from a spring for men working on the "shoo-fly" track. Ho knew his danger and. boforo atart- ing told Agont Mrton tho namos of relative whom ho wanted notified If he failed to come back. San Francisco, June 4. Officials of the Westorn Pacific Railway company here announled yesterday that the shoo-fly track, built to carry trains around tho burned Chllcoot tunnel, had beon completed and that trains would be run over It today. |