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Show CRUSHED BY A CAGE. A Man Instantly Killed in the Ontario Mine. A fatal accident occurred in the Ontario Mine on Sunday evening about ten minutes to 6 o'olock. John Creed, with another party, had the contract for sinking the new shaft in the Ontario Mine. He went to wort at 3 o'olock on Sunday afternoon and waa drilling at tbe bottom of the, shaft, about thirty-three feet below tbe 600 foot level. He had finished drilling a hole preparatory to putting in hia blast, and turned to his partner and said ho would go up to the 600 fool level and get powder. Hia partner told him to wait until he rang the bell for the cage used by them which would be down in a lew momenta. Tbia cage, it muat be understood, is used exclusively by tbe men engaged in einking the ahaft. Creed said no, he would co ud the ladder, and commenced climbing, which waa tbe last his partner saw of him until he was dead. The shaft ia divided into three compartments, that used for the pumps being the one in which Creed was at work. At csrtain distances there are places, about four feetaquare, through which one compartment com-partment can be entered from the other. When Creed came to one of these boles he saw Ihe oage and car in the other I compartment standing there,' and doubtless concluded he would get in and go to the aurface. However, he crawled through, and was just getting in tbo car when the engineer, at tbe aurface, began hauling it up. Creed must have been about half in tbo car, for he was immediately caught between it and the limbers and ioBtantly killed. The engineer, feeling the obstacle, atopped the cage and began to let it down, but the car stuck fast. Night Boss Kirvin, with some others, went down, and found Creed dead.biahead down.showing that he had been turned upside. down. He waa firmly caught between the timber tim-ber and the car, and the timbering bad to be cut away before hie body could be tanen out. Jt is presumed that he did not know anything, bo quickly waa he killed, and the pump man, who saw him go through the hole into the adjoining compartment, and who was but a few feet from him, did not hear any noise. His braina were scattered alongjhe timbers, and he was mangled and mashed terribly. His body wae not Bevered but nearly every bone was broken. He was immediately taken up, and on Monday morning the body waa brought to thia city. A procession of some ten carriages, containing about forty persons, followed the remains into Salt Lake, where they arrived shortly alter noon, and were taken to the sexton'a. He leaved a wife ani child, and was highly respected by all. Tbe funeral takea place from the sexton'a office at 2.30 o'clock to day. The accident was due wholly to tbe unfortunate man bimeelf. There is a cage that ia used exclusively exclu-sively for the shalt men, and he should have waited for it. Suoh a thing as be did was never known to have been done before. It was possible pos-sible for tbe aot to have been per formed time and time again without any injury, but it was his misfortune to try it just at a moment when everything every-thing conspired to make it prove fatal. Considering the great number of men employed in the Ontario, it ia marvellous that bo few accidents occur, and is due only to the great oare that is taken by those in charge. |