The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-28
WALKED INTO A MINE
Miner Fell Into a Pit $50 Feet
Deep and Was Instant
ly Killed.
U. p. NEWS CONDENSED.
Various Happenings Throughout
the Peninsula Taken From
Our Exchanges.

Gust Frank, Finlander, who re-
sides at the Winthrop mine location,
lshpeming, walked into the big open
pit out there Monday night shortly
before II o clock and was instantly
killed. The pit is about $50 feet in
depth at the point where Frank fell
in. His head was terribly crushed
and some of the bones in his body
were broken. Frank and his wife
had spent the evening down town
and We're within few feet of their
house when the husband walked over
the embankment. 1t was quite dark
at the time. The husband was in the
lead going up the path near the open
ing. AT the point where he fell into
the pit there are two paths, says the
Mining Journal, one going toward
the house and the other toward the
pit. Frank followed the latter,
evidently thinking he was on the
one leading to his house. His wife
was several feet behind him aud she
did not observe him walking toward
the mine until she heard rumbling
sound and few seconds later heard
him strike at the bottom of the pit.
James Kelly, who is at present EN-
ployed as ightwatchman at Section
Il mine, was on the opposite side Of
! the bank. He heard the man and
woman talking as they went up the
path, but could not see them. As he
looked toward them he heard the
man slip and then saw sparks from
his pipe part way down the pit. Sud
denly he heard the noise below and
knew that the man had fallen.
The woman then began to scream.
| Kelly at once went to her and after
getting her into the house went out
to one of the pits and told the men
working there what had happened.
| Five or six of them went down into
! the pit and put the body into the skip
2nd hoisted it to the surface. Judg-
ing from the appearance of the man 5
head and body he met instant death.
! Frank S mission to town Monday
evening was to find a boarder who
had run off with some of his clothing.
1t is said that while he was in the
city he took few drinks and that
had he been sober he might not have
taken the wrong path. He was an
entire stranger at the Winthrop, he
and his wife having come there from
Hancock only a short time ago. The
deceased was 81 years OF age.
Deputy Sheriff Mcnamara arrived
! in Houghton from Ontonagon on the
r. G.. Stewart Saturday afternoon.
He has given up the search for the
third man suspected of being one of
| those who cracked the safe of the
Calumet postoffice. "He has either
made good his escape or is lying dead
in the woods, said the officer, land
/ am inclined the latter is the case
for | cant see how he could have
gotten through the line of searchers
we have had surrounding the portion
of the woods where he was last seen.
The name OF the escaped man is be-
lieve6 to be Harry Carson. He had
| only short time before coming to
the copper country recovered from
typhoid fever and his weak condition
coupled with the fact that he is GER
tainly no woodsman makes his es-
cape a matter of considerable doubt.
The searching parties have been
called in and if Carson is now caught
! it will be by United States and not
state officers Both the men now in
Jail, with Carson, arrived in Hough-
ton by boat several weeks ago and
were in town over Saturday and
Sunday. Their guns, packs and q
dog were left in Strobe Bros. sa-
loon during that time. They said
they were going to spend few weeks
on homestead near Ontonagon.
The Iron county circuit court will
convene in Crystal Falls September
I'd, and Peter Bons, the slayer of
Pearl Morrison, will plead guilty,
thus saving the county the expense
of a trial. The prisoner will then
receive the sentence OF the court and
enter upon living death in the
state penitentiary at Marquette,
providing he does not escape at
some future time.
The Michigan state board of
pharmacy conducted two days
examination in the city hall, at
Sault Ste. Marie Tuesday and
Wednesday. There were 20 appli.
cants for certificates.
August Kaskella, carpenter en-
ployed on the old school building at
Calumet, fell from the scaffold Sat
urday last, a distance of thirty-five
feet, and was seriously, and perhaps
fatally, injured.
1t is stated that the coming sea
son in the lumber camps in the
vicinity of Bessemer will be a RECORD