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Show MEXICAN MINER SMOTHERED AT NEWHOUSE Mauro G. Cueller, a Mexican miner, was smothered to death yesterday yes-terday (Thursday) morning at New-house. New-house. Cuellar had been employed at the place since last April. The Utah Leasing Company is operating a flotation flo-tation mill in working over the immense im-mense accumulation of tailings from the old Cactus mine. The tailings are being hauled by a small locomotive locomo-tive and dump cars and by teams and wagons and dumped into a great bin. From this bin the tailings, which for the most part are as fine as sugar, slide by gravity down to the four huge carrier belts which take the fine ore into the mill. The tailings are a trifle damp. Thus it happens that at times when the bin is not very full that the fine ore particles par-ticles cease to run down through the opening and leaves only a large hole through with sides almost perpendicular. perpen-dicular. A long bar is provided with which to prod the sand-like ore to start it again on its downward flow. This was Cuellar's job. It was only .a few minutes before 7 o'clock a. m. when he should be relieved from his shift. Taking the bar he evidently evident-ly tried to poke the tailings in the bin to start them running. Probably in trying to hurry the flow in some manner he lost his footing and fell into the opening in the fine tailings which immediately closed in all about him like a vise. Being heavier than the fine particles of ore his body dropped through the opening until his feet showed below. When his relief came, seeing no one about and the ore having stopped running he investigated and discovered the feet hanging below as described. Possibly had he dragged the man loose by digging from below and loosening the tailings which held him, the unfortunate man might have been resuscitated. It itead he rushed above and tried to lig the man out from the top, buj without avail. Help arriving, the j )dy was finally loosened and recovei ed from below, but no life remained J. A. Ingols, Russell Pars- ns, Mrs. John McKeon, Allen Hedge and E. B. Jorgensen went to the mine, held an inquest and returned with the body. The verdict- of the jury was that the man came to his death by an accident, the result of his own carelessness. The deceased has a brother in business bus-iness at Silato, Mexico, who has been wired the facts and his answer is being awaited before disposition is made of the body. |