Show FIFTEEN MINERS RS DROP DRO P TO DEATH j r Cage Sage in Independence end ence once Falls From Gallows i BRAKE BRAK FAILED TO WORK I INVESTIGATION ION BING MADE ADB OP OF THE TB 1 Victor ictor c uIo Jan 58 CAll As a result of ofa ofa a an which occurred about 3 Z 0 uk this morg at the Stratum li 11 J 1 i i mine ft near the cue eit e of this city men are dead tiU one other otez severely injured The 1st I A j deai and Injured is as 8 a follows The Dead Dean W v R n Frazier uhn ohn Edw L 4 A W goner 14 4 A Y man Edward 1 ward th Joe Overy H F Br Bro BroW i iW W B BJ Colli J 1 L Stewart Frank e 1 L 1 P Ja Harry T C c Staten Injured James body bodT bruised and aDd Calp wounds In hi the tho main mabi the tb mine sixteen men were being 1 hed hooted ted In the cage from the sixth seventh sevet fh and eighth lev levels levels els CIL When the cage fet f to the surface in ir the shaft sh ft house houie the t e engineer for some come reason unexplained ed was unWe t to stop the engine and an the cage with us Ls load of ot human freight was wa drawn up liP into thE gallows frame fre e where tt t be beam beC C am amt lodged temporarily y The strain etrain a n I the cable caused it to part relena relea releasing ing ig J Ig the cage which went down the kLaft at a terrific momentum Two of 1 i he h occupants of the cage however had bad become entangled with the timber i us near the top of or the gallows frame I In mi n 1 one of them L P F Jackson was wa I Ir r u hd to death by the sheave wheel wheela II tiling a upon him The other James Janice Jamest t had a marvelous escape cape e from fromi z ath i but received painful Injuries He HeliS 1 liS i i rescued from his hs perilous position h r I men in the shaft house bou e eTh Th shift boss bose and ad a number of min mitt mini ei i later down dOJ into the mine f u ugh tich U ih another of the EnaCt itt and found that all aU the tb fourteen fourt n rim Ii who Tho tl ted with Ith the cae cage on Us its T Til 1 i 1 flight of C r DOO 0 feet to t th tho bottom if I f f 1 shaf were dead their bodies T bring ng n scattered red at the stations at dif 1 i ent rent point Their arms and boi ES EStre tie tre VP mangled their heads crush cru l and andI n lir I ir clothing doUtin stripped from their bod hod From he 1 ld 1 to the i torn the haft shaft is spatt with witt MiU h 1 d J ith Iere ere fre and tb tl t e pieces of off I f l to io projectors lom At tM tho thor r m of the shaft stands rPt t of rf wate fond end into ts t the cage Tinged of Ut the m men n were ere car carid nod id with tb th cage into sump Manager Thomas h was vas as pro pren hi i a 1 ed I b by the news new ne of or the accident and andrie 1 rie as yet ci to offer any in n 7 of It the tile affair quad of or military has hat tak n charge he pr p rt and citizens will not ilOW i to 10 o enter the t e mine or shaft abaft ij Until afler a thorough i i i I of f th machinery rt has b bd i ii made macic engineers I i rank ank G 0 M se e the engineer in charge chargee t I le e machinery when wilen the th accident himsel to t the tiry was wa as locked up in the I i I n I I H I would not net express any imon as a to how the cage got KOl beyond yond rot is a newcomer in the ther mu r i t but i said Laid to have been n strong if z commanded as a t engi Victims Nearly early AU All Newcomers M 1 ut s of the victims ma of the disaster f i strangers rI in the district l having ning n ng from the Coer dAlene Alene d the I tn c Superior mines and other cia dis dist dit t t e to ak the places of ot Strikers sinkers r Creek ek 1 The be hc s buried under the cage ca e at att f t f c of or the thO sump BUmp have ha e not yet U 11 T ai the th men killed leave leavec wid c and c dren Harry had w ife e and three children who bo are in v 1 r i Collins was waa a Baptist minis minto mJ and nd felch d on Sundays 8 at Gold I 11 1 1 He wa was wasi 38 35 years old and came camei i u ii Cornwall England a l few and Frank Cochrane from the Coeur Alene 4 i is believed to have been 0 o a 1 in the hoisting k 1 I connections B which are con coni Ii i 1 br air ait airi aitT 40 T i i eng ne s a first motion n n double I and he two cages ages work as roan coun i balances bIanc The cages 8 each weigh riv ny two to Inns M In starting th cage m the level this thU morning h the t he sixteen miners aboard steam as is u ed d but Jut after the cage had bad gone rd a f distance uner um r steam sure tuse ih thA steam was as abut shut oil oft by byr r 7 er rank ro k Gelles Gelle e and the weight wel ht the tle counterbalancing descending r in n the other shaft compartment 5 lHowe to bring brine the load loud of min minto minto mm to t the surface as is the cus w lien ieti th cage cap with the sixteen min minu mm u at tt the in the time shaft 1 i Engineer En 1 r Ge to hs horror r i ered that hat the air ir brakes brak s would T f work a identa In which nO ro lies U I f fro r lost loat ia MJ occurred twice before ore at 1 Independence e with tb th the same en enie eni 1 ie i now in use UIe there Expert engi er will nill b secured fe to examine the and determine tl Ute the actual cau cause e p LetS iN cr it its j failure fallie to do is Its isk I tl k |