A PERILOUS ADVENTURE.

Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1674, 3 October 1873, Page 4

A PERILOUS ADVENTURE.

The Brisbane Telegraph reports the following incident, which may be interesting for little girls to read about, though iv experience it would be found far from pleasant. Ifc happeQedthat Millie Coyan, aged about 10 years, daughter of George M. Coyan, general manager of all the mines in and about Lost Camp, was assisting her younger sisters over the sluice-boxes, in the mine known as Wood's Ravine, when she missed her footing and fell into the boxes, through which was running at the time ahout 500 inches of water. She was swept for a distance of 1600 feet through the sluices as though she had been a feather. It appears that she passed through the boxes in a sitting position, and during her terrible race tried repeatedly to rescue herself.from what 99 cases out of 100 would have proved fatal to the strongest man. Even while going at the rate of a railroad train the girl exhibited presence of mind enough to let her head fall back into the water to escape a piece of wood thai; was nailed over the boxes, and against which, but for the precaution taken, her brains would certainly have been dashed out. After being carried a distance of 900 feet, she was washed over a "dump" 12 feet high, falling into another sluice-box 700 feet; long. Passing through the latter, she was swept over another " dump" 20 feet high, falling among rough jagged rocks. Here she managed to crawl out a few feet from under the heavy body of falling water, and was shortly after rescued by Mr. Bartlett, foreman of thn mine. It was found that sha had sustained severe injuries on the left knee, hip, and side. Her face was also scratched and swelled, but fortunately neither will permanently disfigure her. Her escape from a terrible death is considered by those who understand the peril through which she passed, as something miraoulous. '