Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1911 — DROWNS IN MINE SHAFT [ARTICLE]

DROWNS IN MINE SHAFT

Zinc Expert Tries to Scale 100-Foet Shaft, bpt Weakens and Falls. Galena, Kan,, March 24.—His tightly clenched finders from which the flesh been torn, gave convincing evidence of the desperaae struggle for life of Marlin Fieandt, a zinc miner, who was drowned in the water at th* bottom of an abandoned mine. Fieandt Hlmbed down a rope with. Walter Miller Into the mine, 100 feet deep Miller climbed opt, but Fieandt was unable to accomplish the falling back when half way up.