Show S ix ain FALL TO BOTTOM OF MINE dropped from the cage over tive tw hundred feet the bodies being mangled by falling failing timbers Tim bera almost miraculous escape of others who seemingly were doomed tragedy was result of most peculiar accident pittsburg six men were instantly killed another was dangerously injured and three cireo others irad narrow os ca capes cape in a mine cago accident late monday at ellsworth mine no 1 located in washington coil county lity the anine la Is owned by the ellsworth coal company of this city throe three of tho the men were mining operators opera tora tho others being foreign miners the three engineers who had been employed by the company several years hail had just completed a survey purvey of the mine preparatory to starting now new entries the six foreigners having assisted them A heavy wooden beam waa loaded into tire the capo cage and its enda end projected beyond the tha side elde the mon men riding on tho the timber all went well until they wore were within devent seventy yive live feo feet of tho the top of the shaft when tho the projecting beam struck one of the tha planks of tiro tho shaft cribbing displaced by expansion duo due to tho the cold and most of tile the men were dumped out of tho the cage six fell to tile the bottom a distance of 0 foel feet tho the heavy tim on top of bf them and were crushed silliest almost beyond randolph a drilling machine operator who was badly injured although utmost almost unconscious from a blow on lils Is lead head caught a chain at the side tr of the cage and clung clang to it until rescued cuenat at tho the surface three of the foreigners were thrown with the farel impact fo tile the floor of the cago cage anti and reached the surface stunned and slightly bruised but little the worse for their experience |