DROWNED IN A SLUICE
Salmon, June 13-A placer miner, by the name of Bowen,
lost his life by falling backward into the bedrock fume of the
Leesburg Hydraulic company at Leesburg, Idaho, last Thursday. The
flume was running a full head of water, and the unfortunate man had
not time to recover himself, and was picked up on the dump half a
mile below where he fell in, drowned and battered to death. He was
brought out to Salmon and buried by the local lodge of Maccabees, of
which he was a member.
June 19, 1899 Idaho Daily Statesman Boise City
Idaho
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