Show fatal accident at gold chain richard rundle falls 1000 feet after being caught between the cage and shaft timbers richard bundle rundle who has been ein em aloyed in the in yes pes at ma ninoth for several years was killed in the shaft at the gol goll I 1 cha n mine shortly after noon on tue day his body was horribly mangled in the fall from the tunnel level to the bottom of the shaft a d stanc of 10 feet the gold cha n shaft is used jo nt ly b this company and the Opo hongo and bundle rundle was on the pay roll of the latter company together with mith bobert robert parker he got upon the cae at the level the two men in tend ng to go to the surface for the purpose of eating the ther lunch par ker had previously been employed as a cage rider ani it was he that gave the en aneer the s gna to ho st the cage in most cases the cage at the gold cha n is stopp d at the tunnel level and when th man men desire to go through to the s arf ace they aga aa n s gnal the eng eila neer both I 1 arker larker and bundle under stood th s and the matter hai hal been mentioned as the aji men took the T places on the cage ive i if 1 ve vever er when the cage sa s1 ved up at th tunnel level and wh ie le I 1 af aaker ker was g vin ving 9 the engineer the s anal to h ha st fit to the surface bundle rundle attempted to g get t O 0 off f the cage a g e and was caught in t the h e h a f le t t re lo 10 e rs iii A s body dropp ng into the s shaft aft 11 II i act on in try n ng to leae the cag ema ns a mystery to parker tunny the tunnel level station was some alien what dark when the cage cafe arrived there and ak ar e d d nat not realize what had happened happen d until th cage reached the surf e a few seconds second later although hel he remembers hear ing bundle rundle s lan linci pa va I 1 s strike rike the tin hers as the cag left t the e station charles hep vort was running the engine he ile states that he followed the he usual custom and stopped the balge at the tunnel level then hoist ing to the surface when the proper signal was given bundle rundle iams is 49 years of age 11 is the father of four small children m aho vho he have been at one of the orphan a ages at salt lake since the death of the mother a little more than a bear ear ago lie ile reinstated in the T tin in tic district miners un on less than a week previous to his death and this organization on had charge of the funeral services which were conduct ed from the M E church this af hernoon bev rev powell pres ded at these services the interment took ilace I 1 lace in the eureka cemetery INQUEST HELD THURSDAY judge hensen nelson ne ison of mam main moth empanelled a coroner s jury and an inquest was held on thurs day for the purpose of investigating the circumstances surround ng the death of bundle rundle the jurors were james swenson james 11 mccabe and michael stiner after hearing the evidence the jurors brought in a verdict which was wag substantially as f follows that the sa d bichard richard bundle came to his death hy by falling into the gold chain shaft and that his death mas as purely accidental |