Salt Lake Herald | 1905-04-23 | Page 23 | Two Miners Killed

TWO MINERS KILLED I Wait Too Long at Bottom of Shaft Shafi and Tardy Explosion Cuts I IThem Them Off I Through an explosion In the bottom botton S S of the Uie Howard Hoard shaft at the Columbus r I CO Consolidated mine at Alta AHa two miners Jury Tury Lowney and Horace Kelly lost los t th their ir r lives Friday Frida afternoon In the thet th C t veiling a coroners jury was wa as impaneled h hIed and after making a full fun Inquiry into the particulars of oC the accident a t verdict was rendered exonerating the th S tS company and amI holding that no one on aside S from front the men themselves were to h S blame The rhe Inquiry wa w was concluded at mid mW midnight night nj hl after which bleh Superintendent A O 0 Ola Jacobson la and others left camp with th the th r bodies arriving here at 5 50 Ik yester yeter yesterday day morning Undertaker E G ODon I noll oIl took charge harge of the bodies and Su Sn Superintendent Superintendent Jacobson Jacb n then went to toli t 1 li find nd the relatives of Jury Lowney During the afternoon a It wire he came cam f from i om Patrick Lowney Loney of Butte directing that the body of Jury Lowney 10 n be bej 1 b t e j e l there A brother of Horace Horac e Kellys l ells came caine in ill from Mammoth dur during ing inti in the forenoon and arrangements for tor forthe to r the th letters funeral were wele made during g gt the t he afternoon The he men were engaged in sinking the How Howland land shaft ah n said Supt Superintendent dent Kelly they and others having the th irk under und r contract Ten ren boles holes haft bat ha haben J l ben cen n drilled in the bottom and loaded load d dand 1 and at 35 p m tu the men were preparing preparing ing to fire lire the blast When hen the accident Lt occurred only two explosions were wv P heard so o the presumption is that the them themen th 0 m men n had begun to spit the fuse fuge Some Som te e of It had probably dropped over from mm i it the he t holes boles and become wet and in try tr y I lug InK to make it burn the men stayed too to x 4 I long lang Inn In the bottom That they tny had bad rec re c I their danger is evidenced from I ro E i ithe th the testimony te of the engineer on shift shil t at the th time who reported that he heard hear l lone one of the men calling to the other to I 0 hurry up u and tie that ladder meaning undoubtedly the last span which h is i it al RI always RIwa a I ways wa aye taken u ur up as the men leave the th e bottom and which is Ia fastened to on or onside one Lt side of the shaft farther up Following a that came cam the explosion The bodies a ar of r the men were wre found in the bottom 1 pretty badly badh mangled though Kelly Kell ly ty lived ed for three hours hou after being taken take n nut tUt ut In his hi delirium he was waa a continually 1 y ii urging ursin bis hI partner to hurry up and tire lire iii re e ethe the holes hoIe The body of Horace Kelly was Aas w as Is I shipped last night to American Amerl Fork Fort Forty y where he be hasa mother and a sister liv lh living I ing ig The remains ins of Jury Tur Lowney wilt wi be sent to Butte this morning for fr burial hurls al ii and nd will be taken takemi harge of ot by hy his ii is brother j