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The Spokane (WA) Daily Chronicle
May 15, 1893

        DOWN, DOWN TO DEATH
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        Ten Men Fall Three Thousand Feet Down a
         Perpendicular Shaft in the
           Red Jacket Mine.
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        THE NAMES OF THE KILLED
        
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        The Engineer Failed to Stop
         the Engine at the
           Proper Time.
           
        HOUGHTON, Mich., May 14 - Ten men were dashed
      to pieces in the Red Jacket perpendicular shaft
      of the Calumet and Hecla mine at noon today. The
      miners were coming in a cage to dinner, and the
      engineer hoisted the cage against the timbers of
      the shaft. The coupling pin broke and the men and
      cage dashed downward over 3,000 feet to the bottom.
        The names of the killed are: ALLEN CAMERON, son
      of CAPTAIN CAMERON, in charge; JAMES COCKING, single,
      supporting a widowed mother; JOSEPH POPE leaves a
      wife and one child, whose wife was at the mouth of
      the shaft with his dinner and saw the terrible fall
      of her husband; his comrade, JOHN HICKS, single; 
      ANDREW EDNO, married; ROBERT EUOPIA, leaves a wife
      and three children; CON. S. SULLIVAN, single, aged
      forty.
        The men were aboard a skip used in hoisting rock
      and when the load of human freight had reached the
      surface the engineer did not stop in time, but went
      to the top of the derrick, when it broke loose and
      went back with a crash to the bottom of the shaft.
      There was no way of reaching the bottom for getting
      the dead men out excepting by going through another
      shaft half a mile away, so it was nearly three hours
      before the true state of affairs could be ascertained,
      and it will be toward morning before the bodies can
      be brought to the surface. It was necessary to hoist
      them 550 by ropes to reach the level of the next shaft,
      then carried half a mile through drifts, and then 
      hoisted by a man car. Twelve went down this morning,
      but one was attacked by sickness and sent up, ac-
      companied by a comrade.
        A coroner's jury is making a thorough invesigation.
        It will be another day before Mine Inspector HALL
      and the coroner's jury can gather the evidence re-
      quired to fix the responsibility for the engine's
      failure to stop, an investigation that the miners
      demand shall be thorough. General Manager WHITING
      and Superintendent DUNCAN are almost prostrated by
      the awful responsibility which is thus thrust upon
      them. Did the indicator fail to work and fail to
      inform the engineer when the carriage reached the
      surface, as he says, or did he become careless and
      fail to stop the engine at the right moment? These
      are the questions that are being asked and which
      the investigation is expected to determine.
      
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