| Show cage accident delays work at chief consolidated mine at about one 0 clock last n while empty cars were being lowered the cage caught in the shaft at the chief consolidated mine and wh ie the engin engineer eer was trying to extricate it the cage became unfastened from the cable and dropped into the sump be low the 1800 level the accident made it impossible for the morn ng shift to go to work today and as two or three days will be needed to make the repairs the mine will probably not be in operation again until sun day morning bupt cecil A fitch states that the shaft timbers were not damaged to any extent and while the cage has not been taken from the sump it k 1 hardly likely that it has been badly wrecked as there are many feet of water which naturally should break the force of the fall fan ahe worst feature about the acci dent is that it will delay the under ground work at a time when the mine is sending out an enormous ton nage of ore last week the ship ments aggregated forty cara cars and the tonnage for the present week would havet been even larger had it not been for the accident of last night |
