Show SIX IN FALL TO BOTTOM OF MIN Dropped From the Cage Over Two Hundred Feet the Bodies Being Mangled by Falling Timbers Almost Miraculous Escape of Others Who Seemingly Were Doomed Tragedy Was Result of Most Peculiar Accident PIttsburg Six men were Instantly Killed another was dangerously inJured In-jured and three others had narrowjgs capes in a maine cage accident late Monday at Ellsworth mine No 1 located lo-cated In Washington county Tho mine Is owned by the Ellsworth Coal company of this city Three of tho men killed wore mining operators Ute others being foreign miners Tho three engineers who bad been employed by the company several years had just completed a survey of tho mine preparatory to starting now entries tho six foreigners having assisted them A heavy wooden beam was loaded Into tim cage and Its ends projected beyond the side tho men riding on the timber All went well until they were within seventylive feet of the top of the shaft when tho projecting beam struck ono of the planks of the shaft cribbing displaced by expansion duo to the cold and most of the men wero dumped out of the cage Six fell to the bottom a I distance of 225 feet the heavy tim lers on top of them and were crushed almost beyond recognlton Randolph a drilling machine opera tor who was badly injured although almost unconscious from a blow on his head caught n chain at the side of the cage and clung to It until rescued res-cued at tho surface Three of the foreigners were thrown with the first Impact to tho floor of the cage amid reached tho sur face stunned and slightly bruised but littlo the worse for their experience |