Show A RUNAWAY ENGINE big machine at victor mine wrecks the shaft house the big double compound engine on the no 2 shaft of the portland mine at victor colo ran away tuesday morning and literally tore itself to pieces as well as wrecking the shaft house and tearing down the gallows frame the loss will reach 15 and it will require sixty days to top repair air the damage just what caused the accident will never be known but it la Is supposed that a key came out of some part of the engine the safety level came off and an upcoming cage that was loaded only with cars was shot into the sheave wheel engineer williams when he saw that the engine was beyond his con arol yelled to the five men who were in the shaft house to run for their lives and this they quickly did the engineer following the crossbeam came down and the cage dropped back into the shaft where it was followed by 2 feet of cable when about feet down the cage caught but the cable went on down the high sped gained by the engine caused the fly wheel to go into a thousand pieces aad and portions of it were thrown yards the gallows frame was torn into small pieces and half of the root roof of the shaft house was demolished the shaft is supplied two cages and the descending one tore its way to the bottom 1100 feet from the sur stir face |