Show w 1 I w TWO MEN FELL DEAD peculiar accident ends the lives of two montana miners helena mont aug men were killed and two others staggered into tho open air with almost their last gasp as the result of a peculiar accident which occurred at 6 last night in tho new tunnel of tho alnah mine at mont the four men had gone to the end of the tunnel a distance of 2600 feet and were engaged in sinking a shaft which work had been in progress several days they had been using a small engine tor hoisting dirt the smoke from the engine had been carried in a tunnel above the one in which the men were engaged from where it was dissipated by means of an air shaft last night after the men had been at work several hours the air shaft became stopped up and the smoke was forced to return to the tunnel where it originated when the men discovered their danger they began a retreat and had reached a point about feet from the opening pt the tunnel where two of them ell gunville and martin johnson fell dead the other two men escaped to the open air but were almost dead and were restored with much difficulty |