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Show MUG COMPANY IS DECIMDAT FAULT Coroner's Jury in Drowning Drown-ing of Charles A. Peet Finds Negligence. Following the recovery, several days ago, or tho body 01 diaries a. rcct, tne Salt I-ako mining engineer, who was drowned in tlie shaft of the Key West mine, near St. Thomas, Nov., an inquest was held by a coroner's jury, which, in its verdict, held tlie company operating tho property to be guilty of failure to comply with the provisions of tho Nevada Ne-vada statutes regarding the safety of miners. This is tho statement made by A. J. Stimson, slate mine inspector of Nevada, tli rough whose efforts tho body of Mr. Peet was recovered after ten days of fruitless work on the part of others endeavoring en-deavoring to regain it. Mr. Stimson, who was in Salt Lake Friday evening and who left yesterday for Nevada, said that the drowning of Mr. Peet was brought to liia attention by Ciovenir Poylc of Nevada, Ne-vada, who wired him. in response to a message sent from Salt Bake through Governor Bamberger. When the mine Inspector finallv arrived at the shaft into which air. Peet had fallen, the efforts to pump out the water had been abandoned and there was about ninety feet of water in the shaft. . With his assistant, Mr. Stimson said that lie Improvised grappling, hooks, welding them from material found at the mine, and, after two hours of work, located tlie body of Mr. Peet at tho bottom bot-tom of the pumps, but about sixty feet from tlie bottom of the shaft. Tho mine, an old one, was being un-watered un-watered by tho Nevada Copper and Nickel company. The Nevada law, said Mr. Stimson, makes it legal to use a swinging bucket without safety cross-heads cross-heads in shafts of the character and depth of the Key Westmino and to raise and lower men therein. The coroner's jury returned a verdict holding the company at fault. |