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Show IE ARE KILLED IN ELUEM Ely, Nev.. July 8 Al H Cook of Roanoke, Va , here two years, a powder pow-der man of the Nevada Consolidated Copper company, Copper Flat pit, and seven Austrlans and one Greek were instantly killed this afternoon when a load in a drill houe witlr several hundred hun-dred pounds of black powder and a large quantity of dynamite, exploded One of the Austrians escaped death C B. Phay, a drill operator, fifty feet" away, was hurt by Hying rocks, but not seriously The cauoe of the premature explosion explo-sion is unknown It was caused possibly pos-sibly by hot cinders from a passing engine on another pit level, or carelessness care-lessness in handling the explosives. The accident occured next to tho top level. There aro seven levels, averaging sixty feet, one above another. an-other. Cook'3 body was partially dismembered dismem-bered and was identified by tho clothes remaining and the card found therein. He was blown 1,000 feot from the middle of tho pit He war. soon to quit and return home. The remains of a few parts of the others were identified. The pit whore the accident occurred is sixty feet deep below the entrance, while the west side rises more than 0 feet Chura drills precede the steam shovels shov-els The holes are drilled and rhot to loosen tho ore.' Somotlmos a ton of dynamite and black powder Is charged in ono hole. |