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Show DEATH IN RUTH MINES On Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock Joseph Hamilton and Edwin Bell met death in a cave-in which o-ccurred on the 640 level of the Ruth mine, where they were employed. The cave-in occurred from the roor above the timbers in the drift In which the men were working, which came with sufficient force to crush the timbers and cover the men with debris. The bodies were reached by rescue workers within fifteen minutes min-utes after the accident happened, and as neither of the bodies showed evidence evi-dence of external injuries it is presumed pre-sumed that death was caused by suffocation. suf-focation. Alex Baird, deputy state mine inspector, in-spector, and Judge McDonald visited the scene after the accident happened happen-ed andfl made' a careful evamination of conditions In the mine at that time. On Wednesday afternoon a coroner's coro-ner's jury was empaneled by Judge McDonald, which in company with the deputy state mine inspector and others visited the scene, and after a careful investigation of all circumstances circum-stances in connection with the accident acci-dent rendered a verdict to the effect that the men came to their death unavoidably un-avoidably through asphyxiation. Joseph Hamilton was about 50 years of age, a miner by occupation, and came to Utah, where is said to be well known. Edwin Bell was formerly for-merly from Cripple Creek, Colorado, and also a miner by profession. His mother is a resident of Salt Lake C'ty. Ely Record. |