Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-11 | Page 1 | Fell in Midst of Explosives

fell in ids! of Explosives Shocking- Death of Miner Who Fell Down Shaft After Setting Off Blast. Special to The Tribune. RENO, July 10. Suspended in a yhaft three hundred feet from the bottom of the Little Tcnopah mine at Tonopah today. Earnest L. Clausen fell from a bucket Into tho midst of five exploding blasts, and met instant death. IIIo body was frightfully mangled. Clausen was working with Roger Dougherty. Tho two had Just set off a round of blasts and were being hauled to the surface to await the explosion. The cable became caught 300 feet from tho bottom and Clausen got on the edgo to straighten It when he lost his footing nnd fell. He was 31 years of age, a native na-tive of Minnesota and unmarried.