Show hcan ly loaded cage drops feet n shaft of M ch gan M ne and bodies of V chims are mashed to a pulp negaunee Neg aunee abich by a cage aluag ing feet down the shaft of the tones laughhun steel mine eleven men were killed and seven fatally in lured the cage with its human freight was being lowered on its first trip of the day when the brake suddenly failed to hold the other men shiang to the assistance of the at the bral e wheel but their et torts did not aadil and the wire cable continued to unreel from the drum ike a thread from a bobbin the cage shot down a couple of hun dred feet before a kink in the too rap idly paying out cable caused it to part and from that point the cage had a sheer deop to the bottom of the shaft the safety catches with which is was equipped failed to operate the surg ing of the cable in its mad flight tore out a part of the side of the engine house and ripped out several of the sheaves in and about the shaft house vor kmen at the bottom of the mine immediately set about the task of re moving the dead the bodies lay in one pile a mass of lifeless flesh and blood the bones of the bodies were so shattered that the men when they fell piled on top of each other like so many pelts of leather seven were to ind still alive |