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Show NINE MEN DROP wmn SHAFT Engineer Loses Control of Mine Cage at West Terre Haute. ONE HAS BACK BROKEN All Badly Bruised and Otherwise Other-wise Injured From Fall of 200 Feet. Terre Haute. Ind , Jan. 27. Nine men were injured some of them seriously, seri-ously, when the engineer at Sandford mine No, 1, four miles west of West Terre Haute, lost control of the mine cage at 7 o'clock this morning and it ran 200 feci to the bottom of the shaft at high speed. All were badly bruised about the body and arms, and one man, Charles Sherwood, it Is believed, suffered a broken back. The victims, nearly-all nearly-all of whom live in this city, were brought here and taken to their homes or to the hospital. oo |