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Show TEACHER LEADING CLASS FALLS DOWN MINE SHAFT PEEKSKIbL, N" V., Oct. 28. Three men in a fmall skiff. RUidetl by torch llsht paddled Ihclr way las-i night! through ihe labyiintbfl of "The Mani-( 'ou. ' an abandoned. water-logsed i-oppr-r mine D-ar here, se.in hlnc for' ih- body of I'rof H. C. Schmidt, who stumbled and fell down the 276-foot shaft. Schmidt, a geologist, with a class of trn Hackley school students, was studying peculiar formation about the mine. Hplding a lantern over his I head in ltt;lii the way, he preceded (he part- thriugh A tunnel which I l,ids to the mouth of the .shaft. The j st'id-nts saw tif lantern flying in the air. heard .1 .isp, a cry for help, then a far-;twuy splash. Prof. Schmitll was SO years old and a native of Germany. Ho wa-s educated at the Universities of Breslau and Drelfswald. Be came to the United Btatea thirty years ago. |