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Show ELEVEH CAU1HIA MINERS " CAUGHT IM DEATH TRAP Endeavor to Escape From Fire l Mine When tWi Skip Became Jammed and Could Not be Raised or Lowered. Jackson, Cal One of W greatest calamine In th annala of mlnloV In thlt country occurred at the Ffefboni Consolidated mine, near Drylowu. on Saturday. 'The employe aa usual were hoisted from tho underground works at noon , At 1 o clock the first skip containing thirteen men, was lowered In the Fremont shaft, ltcachlng the 1,000 foot level, volume of rmoke were encountered, allowing that the mine wn on fire Tho skip becamo Jammed nt tbl point nnd could neither be hoisted nor lowered It Is supposed tu have been thrown off the track by one nf thu men being overcome by smoke and falling against the front wheel of Ihe skip Two of tbe men aboard got out and climbed lo the surface by mean of the ladder way The other eleven perished Four of the unfortunate men nro American, four Italian mid three Austrian |