Show dropped from the cage over two hundred feet the bodies being mangled by falling timbers almost M ra culous escape of others who seem angly were doomed tragedy was result of most lecul dent pittsburg six n en were instantly 1 billed another was dangerously in lured and three others had narrow es capes in a mine cage accident late bonday at ellsworth Ells woith m ne no 1 located in washington county the mine is owned by the ellsworth coal company of this city three ot the men aued were mining operators the others being foreign miners the three engineers who had been employed by the company several vears had just completed a survey of the mine preparatory to starting new entries the six foreigners having assisted them A heavy wooden beam was loaded into the cage and its ends projected beyond the side the men riding on the timber all went well inell they were within seventy five feet of the top of the shaft when the projecting beam struck one ot the planks of the shaft cribbing displaced I 1 y expansion die to the cold and most of the men were d out of the cage six fell to the bottom a istance of feet the heavy tim lers on top of them and were crushed almost beyond randolph a drilling machine opera tor who was badly injure 1 although unconscious aiom a blow on 1 is head caught a chain at the bide of the cage and clung to it until res cued at the surface three of the foreigners were thrown with the first impact to the floor of the cage and reached the sur fice stunned and slightly bruised but 1 atle the worse for their experience |