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Show TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Death Unexpected and a Calamity Unthought of. Alt.v, Xov. J, lo? '.. This morning a trrriUe aceid- nt happened at tlie Keed liensonmine, Ihg Cotton w wui, resulting in the instantaneous in-stantaneous deatli of L'iiarks Lund-gren, Lund-gren, a Sweiie, who was employed at the mine :s a blai-k!uit!j. lue deceased de-ceased was a man between lbny-iive and tUty ye.ii-s of age. He leaves a wite living in Sweden. Europe, and two children who are supposed to lie living in Xebr.L-ka. Toe aeeiu.-nt happened by the breaking of the wire rope on thc tramway. Tlii tramway is the longest one I,"n feet in the tlie Cittnnwtvls, an. nms up an average angle of not U-s than forty-five forty-five degrees, in s(,iMe pl.nes at a ! throe-uuartcr iiiteh. Tin y were running wa.-te thi- morning; morn-ing; for tlie purpose of taking lumber up to the mine. The deeea-id, wishing wish-ing to vitit a pro-n-et in the vicinity, pot aloaid the loadi-1 c::r for a ride down. He was told before, getiing in tlie car that it w;is, unsafe, as one of strands of the rope had been broken for some time. Just as he passed the switch tlie rope parted. Tlie car secmc-d to slop for an instant, when it started down the track with lightning velocity, throwing the uniortunate man out on ihe leftside. The upward-lound upward-lound car llew fmm the track, and the workmen who were there say thai it struck him, p:ising over his legs. The downward car kept the track tiie entire di.-tance, passing through the ore house and landing in a ravine fully two hundred yards, below, smashing the woodwork into splinters and sending the iron wheels and axles three inn id red yard up thc side ol the mountain. When the men reached the body of Charles Lundgren he was found to he almost decapitated. Tlie whole top of his head' wat gone and the brains found scattered on the rocks for a distance of twenty feet. There we;c several , men working on the tramway at dif-! lerent points when tlie accident occurred, oc-curred, two of whom had o narrow escape. Thc employe's of the miuc and strangers visiting it, have been in the habit, nf ridiivj- on lliis tramway even day, the braLem:iu attending it ! warning them t iat it was lVi? safe J and telling th "m of the broken strand. I A new rooo was ordered some two or j three wecksago and i.s expected daily. Thc lesson was a sad one, but it will ! doubtless 'nave its etieets upon parties j desirous ot lipon our moun- ; tain tramways. j Archibald. ! ri'YSICI.VS'S KEfOUT. ! Alta City, Xov. Oth, 173. A messenger from the Reed fc Benson Ben-son mine summoned Dr. Bevan to proceed immediately to the mine, reporting re-porting one man killed and two wounded. At thc request of Dr. Be-van Be-van I accompanied him, he, from reports-, fearing that injuries had been sustained, requiring turgiea! aid.. Wc found that no one had been injured. in-jured. Charles H. Lundgren, the man killed outright, was a Swede, aged -io or ol), and was employed as blacksmith black-smith for the mine. While descending descend-ing on pile oj' fho fi!r; on the tram way the wire rope parted at ' the djHim. The tramway being very te.ep' sent the curs down Die track with the velocity ve-locity of an arrow from a bow. There are two reports from men on thc ground; one was that Lundgren, in at-tempting at-tempting to jump fn-m ihe ear, fell, falling upon thc tra.-k: the other car descending struck him on the head. Tlie other is, that he jumped from tiie car. striking en the ground, then bounding some shuy feet, striking with his head upon a rock, literally demolishing his bead, scattering his l;iiiin3 oyer him r.nd around where ije lit. I am inclined to the hi.-1 report. Jlis left leg had a compound communicated commu-nicated fracture, which must have been done when he jumned fiom the car; the bounding ome sixty feet, striking on his head, did the balance. At all events, a shot from a twenty-four twenty-four pound cannon could not have more etieetuaily did the work. Xo blame is attached to the Supcr-imendem.. Supcr-imendem.. U'e a.-ee. iainod fjj:u the men employed, that Mr. liep. . Norton, tlieoreman, had repeatedly wuj-uo : tiie men not to go up or down on the eats on aueuuut ' of "the worn condition of the rope, a new one having hav-ing been ordered and was daily expected. ex-pected. Jt is only fortunate that the eisualily was ? light. Men standing on tlie track, men in the ore house, I ore teams loading at the foot of thc ; Lraunva.- (should hhie haebcen any i at he iimei would have mi l instant de- atruetion. f'jr to have got out of the i way of tlie defending car would have been a feat equal to dodging a ball from a cannon. Yours truly, - i X. C. Bo ATM AX, M. D. .. I, Bevan, M. 1. .Charles Luiidgrcn's body was brought down to this city yesterday afternoon, and is Lo be buricl this moruijt, . ! |