Show MINERS RS DASHED TO DEATH ten men fall three Thou thousand sana feet in a michigan shaft HOUGHTON mich may 14 ton men dashed to pieces in the red bed jacket perpendicular shaft of the calumet and hecla mine at noon today the tha minors miners wore were coming up in the cage to dinner and the engineer hoisted the cage arrain against st a timber of tho the shaft tha coupling pin broke and the moil men and cage dashed downward over foot to the bottom the men aen wore aboard a skip used in hoisting rock and when the load of human freight reached the surface tho eD engineer ginear did not stop it in time ehno but it wont to the top of the derrick when it broke loose and wont back with a crash to the bottom bott oin of the shaft there was no way of reaching the bottom for getting the doad dead men out except by going through another shaft half a mile away so it was nearly three hours before the truo true state of affairs could be ascer ascertained kaine and it w will all be towards morning before the bodies can bo be brought to tho the surface it is necessary to hobot thorn them feet by ropes to reach the aw lel ea of tho the next chaft chaff then to carry them nearly half a mile through the drifts and then hoist them in a car twelve men wont went down this morning but one was attached att acted by sickness and WAS sent up accompanied by a coin comrade rado the coroners coroner s jury is making a th thorough crough investigation it will bo be another day dav before mine ing inspector hall and the coroners jury can gather the evidence required to ft fis the responsibility lor for L the engineers failure to stop manager whiting and superintendent erin duncan are almost prostrated by the awful responsibility which is thus thrust upon them did tho the indicator fail to work and fail to inform the engineer when the cage reached the surface as ho he sa says y s or did he become careless and fail to stop the engine at the right moment those these aa are ro the questions thit that are boing being aked and the investigation is expect expected od to de determine S |