The Idaho World

Probably Fatal Accident.—On Tuesday morning last, a Chinaman employed in the mining claims of Willis & Driscoll, near this city, met with a very serious accident, which will probably prove fatal. The facts, as related to us by Mr. Willis, are about these: At about three o'clock of that morning a cave came in, filling up their race. This all hands went to work to remove, and just as the race was cleaned and the day hands were about relieving the night shift, the unfortunate Chinaman, by some singular perversity of fate not easily accounted for, got into the flume and was swept through, pitching headlong on the dump-pile, falling perhaps twenty feet. One of his thighs was broken, and a number of severe external bruises sustained. What other injuries he received we are not informed.