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Show ORE CRUSHES ROOF, BUT FAMILY ESCAPES Bingham, Aug 21 A 'runaway"! I loaded luicket on the aerial tramway j of the United States mining company In I'pper Bingham brought Mrs. S ; Walsh and her ihree little children I close to death toduy. but they escaped es-caped without a scratch Far ahoe the hillside of the gulch where the Walsh residence is located, the tranway carrlea its loaded buckets buck-ets One of these, passing from the mine t) the ore house, broke loose from its clamps about noon rushed i on down the cable to another loaded ' I barrier thereby loosening that and j tho two crashed into a third, the im- j j pact dislodging all three from the I j cable and overturning them upon the I 'gulch below. Each bucket carries about 1000 pounds of ore. Some of the larK" rocks were scattered a conslderaUe distance, hut the larger portion of I them fell directlv upon the hed kitchen kit-chen of the Walata home. Although I j the roof was of "lour M four" timbers, tim-bers, the rocks went through No one wa in the rem at the time, but I Mrs. Walsh ami her children were In the rooms ajlJolnIng Nervous shock from the freight was the onH personal lolury.. A 1 l Mt. Walsh who -ifc a IcaiWr It RinX ham, was not at' ftopifc at the timF Tttoe accident. VI ' LiibV. .hw |