Show I SOLDIERMINER KILLED CHARLES MARANDA A FORMER MEl OF BATTERY B Badly Mangled by the lowing Out of the Cylinder Head of the Mammoths Mam-moths Air Compressor J I TRIBUNE SPEqIAL1 Mammoth July 21 Charles Maranda I died In the Mammoth hospital tonight as a result of an explosion this afternoon after-noon at IhctMauimoth min Qt The cyl Indcr of thchlg air compressor was I out of orderand Master MechanicWllr ham Nesbit was down ftp his knees working at it when U hQ head blew off Mr Nesbits escape was miraculous I his only injury being a severe bruise over the left eye which rendered him unconscious Maranda was standing I behind him and to the left and was hit on the legs by pieces of the Hying steel His left leg was badly crushed below i the knee and the right leg broken IntO in-tO places above the knee The accident acci-dent occurred shortly after 3 oclock Maranda was removed to the hospital and Surgeon Mott of that Institution and Mr Hensel of Silver City m dean de-an examination They tookQ piece of crushed bone out of the ri htcg Fragments of the cylinder head were blown through the window and 100 feet down the dump The explosion Is supposed sup-posed to have been caused by the lubricating lubri-cating oil In the cylinder becoming heated Maranda was about 28 years old and was a member of battery B Utah volunteers He had two brothers residing In Eureka one of them an employee em-ployee of the Oregon Short Line After being examined by tho doctors he was made as comfortable as possible and gIven every attention that surgical skill 1 allowed but death occurred about 1 oclock tonight No funeral arrangements have yet been made As a result of the accident at the Mammoth mine this afternoon when the cylinder head of the air compressor was blown out the Lower Mammoth whose engines are operated by air furnished fur-nished by the Mammoth mine will be closed down for several days The Mammoth company wljl also have to lay off all machine men |