Show pha 10 woric 1 MINERS mm DASHED TO DEATH heavily loaded cage drops feet in shaft of M mine and bod es of vict viet ms are mashed to a pulp negaunee Neg aunee mich alich by a cage ing feet down the shaft of the jones laughlin steel mine eleven men N were ere killed and seven fatally in aured 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 sprang to the assistance of the one at the brake wheel but their ef forts torts did not avail and the wire cable continued to unreel from the drum like a thread from a bobbin the cage phot down a couple of hun dred feet before a kink in the too rapidly paying out cable caused it to part and from that point the cage had a sheer drop to the bottom of the shaft the safety catches with ath 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 0 house and ripped out several of 0 the sheaves in and about the shaft house wort men 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 were piled on top of each other like so many pelts of leather se seven eu were found still alive |