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Show A FALL TO DEATH. A CAGE IN THE ANACONDA SHAFT DROPS WITH NINETEEN MEN. Nenteen of Them Crushed into Shapeless Masses or Flesh and Bone The Other Two So BiidlT Injured That Ite-coveiy Ite-coveiy is Impossible. Blite Mont., Nov. 4. At midnight last cight,:iwhon one shift of men at the Anconda rninc was relieving another, seventeen men were killed by the"falling of a cage and two others were fatally injured. A cage full of miners returning from work had stepped out into open air. Their places were at ouce taken by nineteen men who where to take up the work they bad just abandoned, aud the cage started toward the depths below. The rope had been unwound, but a couple of times from the slowly revolving re-volving windlass w hen there was a sudden nap, and a , rv ,f horror from the fchatt. The rope had broken and the cage with its nineteen inmates was precipitated to the bottom of the mine. It was 6ome little time before assistance could be sent to them. A number of miners, who were through work and waiting to be relieved, were at the bottom of the shaft waiting for the cae to take them out. Amidst them, narrowly missing mis-sing some, the cage dashed. Little could be i.one. Of the nineteen men who made the fearful ride, seventeen were dead. Their forms were crushed out of all semblance of human beings, while the two still breathing have no hope of recovery. |