Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-07-11 | Page 8 | Held Four Days in Mine Shaft

HELD FOUR DAYS IN MNE SHAFT SALT LAKE. July 10 Lying for four clays at the bottom of a thirty-foot thirty-foot shaft, without food or water, his left leg broken by the fall, James Larkins, 30 yeare old. wus rescued shortly before noon yesterday at Bingham, and has been brought to St. Mark's hospital In Salt Lake for treatment. Though :iauled from tho hole nearer dead than alive, it is believed be-lieved that Larkins will survive the terrible ordeal. Larkins was employed as a grader by the Utah Copper company and had been engaged In the grading work for the new railroad at Bingham. He had been working near the tunnel below the Yampa smelter, and it wa.4 eeventy-flve feet from there that he fell down the hole on July 5. Feeble cries for help coming from the shaft caught th'e ear ol a small boy who was passing along the track at ahout 10 o clock. The lad looked around and finally found that tho cries were coming from the hole. He hastened to Bingham and summoned Mnrshal J. W, Grant and Deputy Sheriff J. L. FBorbes. who went to tho rescue with , several other men By means of timbers and ropes the men let themselves part way down the shaft and then dropped the nd of a rope to Larkins at the bottom. He was so weak, however, that he could not tie i the rope about his body. Then a boy was lowered into the hole, tied -the rope around the wounded man. ami those at the mouth of the shaft slowly pulled him to the surface. It was found that Larkins was suffering suf-fering from a fractured left leg, btoken between the ankle and the knee, and that, lie had manv cuts ami bruises, inflicted as he bounced from side to side of the narrow shaft. He vas taken to Dr. C. N. Rays hospital and then brought to Salt Lake last night The young man had been drinking heavily on July 4. and it was believed that he had accidentally fallen into the bole When be had regained consciousness, however. Larkins said that he had gone there to see what it looked like that he had fallen In. The shaft Is four feet in diameter diame-ter and drilled in solid rock, thirty feet deep. Larkins is single, and had been working at. Bingham about two months.