Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-09
.,also IN SLIDING SAND.


t.bbora Pail = stan Out Of
WIN r,t amer -Four Hours Work
,sn'i. r,ue OF men FROM Sandwich
n, work on Chamberlain * sons
w, ,,erry bog one of them, james Dal'
iiaH ..oreling In ~ sand pit, was thrown
hn' ~ no his shoulders by a land.
ini - '@ a face Of sand some thirty feet
hps in .pite Of very exact and EN-
~, vsrnings the man was standing
in.t''tt ~. h,ek to the bank and his bir-
WV ,,,wosn him and the exit The fall
NV ii buried the barrow, aud the
w ,igbt lpr WIS bound fast over the
iils-..r.ile The other bog hands ran TO
4, ,,'' rs.ruc. but aside from uncoverins
NJ, n. tarfow and delivering the mans
~ VA, les. could not move him an inch
1,ngor WAS that more sand might
IN i.s.I bnry Is victim alive, for there
~. airr,dy crncls In the sand visible
w w ope or two huge bouldcrs which
'-,sbt come down any moment The
LJlsr, had just been disclosed by tho
/, wss soon apparent that without
=, and wiser help. the man would
t-,,,inly perish by exhaustion or 10
,1,,berel. Tho neighbors were raised.
,r,,se the new Corners was Daniel Ice.
In beach who afterwurd said he hal
seon a man buried In a well and by
-,mon consent. ~ the only man who
S.r,l TO have a plan where an error
,i,ht cost the trapped man his life and
nan, the lives Of others. he was al
Ito direct. First OF Rll he called
80 long plank ono was brought
s.ss ,he hog. and carefully placed s0nu
IN, or -four foot above the man below,
,-gbltwcen him aud the sand face, and
e,rsi to- sand bank.
rhen ho ordered plankB TO DO sawed
anne Eve fcot long, and these 20 bc
Sod upright inside She horizontal
,,nk ana ucing In and toward the
tsk aud u man 10 hold each plnul;
e9dy and to stand to II u another slide
anne llethcn ordered short oak and
-ee limbs TO ba ca, aud put Ia the sand
,b5yo the upright line Of plnnks, to
a,eh and stop the sand which momen-
ar.ly was sitting down The whole
rrtctnr, wns then brlccd ut each end
by ioist and plank, and served IN u rude
sir, OF shield Then, with the men
holding the planks. the others tried ia
dr the mau out. His lcft foot and
bwer trunk. seemed held n IN a vifc. \
,hovelful uf sand taken ont seemed in
SANITY replaced by the sand sitting down
from the hill, Hands were chen used
instead OF shoycls and Soma STONES nm
dsr him removed But 1t was slow
hideous wprl, Tor the strongest ncryed
And now crmo the crisis
The riftrd cirth bank above with IN,
fine trees ON 1t wits moving Sid
ing down. 4 shout among the men q,
lola fasi-a second or two of the terri
BE DRIFT VI uarih-a second shout--mc
ihe deadly INA stood still The plaul
larricr ~ tar hal saved But the maj
N peril had now been some four hour
N q situation. the plril Of which IL
knew. not expecting, ~ hr nttorwar
,od "tho boys" but that he was To b.
carried home IN a box, aud though boar
lug up bruycly was very much Ok
haustcl. He must he released speedily
uperish. OF all traps, sand under suci
coalitions is the most relentless we owe
tdeyes upon. Every attempt OF stroni
uea 10 pull tho man out failed. a ney
Nayvas suggested by Mi David Ellis
( siroas ropo from oro OF the ho.
srsss wis brought \ stray woman
,.lvl. In by some cranberry picker OF
tehg was found aud uscl TO mull
d. ,haumc,s Of the ropo against thl
ras flesh In hauling. the rope wa
listened tight under la, shoulders an,
then. ~ Cod willod. with strong incl
assisting and others holding mt the p.anI
lautr, and tho saud hill settling dow,
syIy moment, the man WIS pulled on
q bis sand graye--uot bono broken
uJtascatch' Tue place whcrg tho mr
liy lonr hours In deadly pcril was tn
n1zt dly found covered with four fec
q sand.--Capo Cod Independent.