Show NINE HURT WHEN MINE CAGES DROP J Mont U April FIve 2 23 Five miners rs were ere tilled and nine injured in il ilan an ned accident acci- acci dent at the old shaft of or the Leonard mine mille of r the e Anaconda Anacon a COPl Copper lr company compan ui this morning W liam Peters lost lot con con- control control of or the the- hoisting engine ah nN he waS is-as 7 two cages os of men into the th mine Both lh cages ca es dropped to to tho the sump Bump on one l falling ig 2200 2201 feet Ceet and the tho other SOO F The en engine went to pieces wrecking l 1 the engine engIno house and throwing pieces pir-ces of or iron and steel hundreds of or feet One lag him i or of vr struck a miner kill kill- InK instantly I eters ten the engineer who stuck to his Post as his engine was wrecked ed cold col- col collapsed lapsed d and his condition f h is serious The Tile accident ent occurred in the shaft down which President dent Tuft Taft and his 5 part Party w were rc lowered on Mr Ir Tafts Taft's first t visit isit to Butte It was as wa one of or the most remarkable in the history of oC the tho camp The cage cabo In ln the first t compartment of tn the shaft shaH bul bulged cd out tho sides of or tho compartment t on its foot 2000 fall raIl This TIll retarded the fall Call of tho the other cage cae J which dropped SOO feet feel All aboard the fir first first t cage case were killed their bodies odlo be- be Jag crushed hc beyond ond recognition The men on tho the 5 second cond ca cage c escaped with injuries and anti all ill aro are expected to liVe Ml Mt of oC them suffered re broken less legs It H was necessary to dismember the tho foales b s of the tho dead to tako take them from irom the wrecked ca cage e. e |