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Show INJURED MINER SUICIDES. Blows Off His Head With Stick of Dynamite to End Suffering. Twin Bridges, Mont. After futilely begging his brother to shoot him and put him out of his misery, Richard Rueter, a miner, realizing that he was fatally crushed, sprawled from his cot and wormed his way several hundred feet distant to a tunnel, where he blew off his head with a stick of dynamite. The brother and several friends had gone for medical assistance and returning return-ing heard the shot and found the headless corpse. Rueter had been caught by a slide of ground and buried to his waist, crushing his back and breaking one arm and one leg. Even while he was being dug out, Rueter is said to have pleaded with his rescuers res-cuers to put a bullet through his brain. |