Show fell down shaft i in 1908 john mitchell a former park city toy familiarly known as giant returned to the park thursday after a few years spent in roaming around the te country it was in 1908 when the ontario was running in full blast that giant had a thrilling experience and a miraculous escape from death ile he was working at the ontario and on the ot of august ot if the year above named tell fell headforemost into shaft no 2 dropped between forty and fifty feet grabbed the cable swung onto a wall rate stepped on the upper deck of the cage which was ascending and arrived ci rived on top unhurt except for a few scratches on his hands had his time come tor for him to die at that time he be would have fell 1700 feet and there would not have been enough left of him to make a deviled ham sandwich it was one of the few miraculous happenings in park city mr mitchell will perhaps remain in park city and provo during the winter or until his feet itch to start again on his wanderlust |