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Show MEET DEATHINCAGE. FIVE MINERS AT BUTTE, IN HURRY HUR-RY TO REACH SURFACE, MEET HORRIBLE DEATH. Accident Caused oy Carelessness of Victims, Who Were Cut to Pieces by Steel Drills Their Mangled Bodies Found in Sump. Butte, Mont. Caught in a vortex o' whirling steel math.ne drills in a mine cage while being hoisted to the surface, five miners met instant death in the shaft of the Mack Hock mine ol the Butte-Suprrior company Sunday morning, while 'he sixth died a few hours later in the hospital from the effects of the injuries he received. m i heir anxiety to reach the surface sur-face the workmen jumped on the cage upon which dull steel was being taken tak-en to the surface. It is presumed that in their crowding they dislodged the steel shafts from the box ki which they were held, and they caughL in the wall plates on the side, the ends whirling with terrific force among the men on the cage, clearing the deck of the miners, fairly mincing tneir bodies bod-ies as the steel bounded back and forth and sweeping them mto the sump, 1,400 feet below. Charles Green, station tender, finally was hurled hurl-ed from the upper deck of the cage to the lower level by the impact when the brakes were applied and was decapitated, as were all tie other miners, with the exception of one, whose head was mashed to a pulp. . |