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Show ONE KILLED IN MINEACCIDENT One miner was killed and another an-other injured critically Tuesday afternoon when the steel tip of ' a pneumatic drill struck a charga of dynamite at Lark. Killed: Louis LaChance, 38, of Bluffdale, Salt Lake County. Injured: Kenneth N. Nielsen, . 36, of 58 Roosevelt St., Midvale, multiple face and body injuries, in "critical" condition Wednesday Wednes-day at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City. According to reports, the two men were drilling on the 3250-foot 3250-foot level of the lead and zinc mine when the drill bit struck the unexploded powder. The explosion ex-plosion blasted large chunks of rock into the men's faces. Mine officials . said the men must not have been able to see the charge "hole" containing the sticks of dynamite and '"probably '"prob-ably a percussion cap." The blast powder was believed by officials to have been left in the mine from Monday's operations. opera-tions. Both men were experienced exper-ienced miners. , The victims were removed from the mine immediately after the blast. |