Salt Lake Democrat | 1885-09-02 | Page 1 | Death on the Cage |

Type	issue
Date	1885-09-02
Paper	Salt Lake Democrat
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Category	Anti-Latter Day Saints
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK	ark:/87278/s6qn7c4k
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qn7c4k

Article Title	Death on the Cage
Type	article
Date	1885-09-02
Paper	Salt Lake Democrat
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Category	Anti-Latter Day Saints
Page	1
OCR Text	Show Death on the Cage WiLKE3BABBEPa September2A terrible I accident occurred this morning at the Oak wood shaft operated by the Lehigh Valley I Coal Company The cage on which nine men were being lowered into the shaft had nearly reached the bottom when a mass of loose coal and rock fell from the side of the shaft down to the pit striking and completely demolishing the cage which is made of heavy timber and iron work instantly killing kill-ing four of the men and wounding two others fatally while three others wore seriously injured in-Jured
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qn7c4k/9914688