Show RA KE REFUSED TO WORK MINRS DASHED TO DEATH Heavily Loaded Cage Drops 700 Feet In Shaft of Michigan Mine and I Bodies of Victim Are Mashed II to a Pulp 1 Nogaunee MtchBy a cage plungIng plung-ing 700 feet down tho shaft of the Jones Laughlln Steel mine eleven men were killed and seven fatally injured in-Jured Tho cage with Its human freight was being lowered i on its first trip of the day whea the brako suddenly failed to hold Tho other men sprang to the assistance of tho ono at the broke wheel but their efforts ef-forts did not avail and tho wire cablo continued to unreel from tho drum like a thread from a bobbin 1 Tho cage shot down a couple of hundred hun-dred feet before a kink in tho too rapIdly rap-Idly paying out cablo caused it to part and from that point the cage had a sheer drop to the bottom of tho shaft Tho safety catches with which is was equipped failed to operate The surging surg-ing of the cable In Its mad flight toro out a part of the side of the engine house and ripped out several of tho sheaves In and about tho shaft house Workmen at the bottom of tho mlno Immediately set about tho task of removing re-moving the dead The bodies lay in one pile a mass of lifeless flesh and blood The bones of tho bodies were so shattered that tho men when they fell were piled on top of each other like so many pelts of leather Seven wero found still alive |