The record-union., 1896-01-06
ACCIDENT In A MINE.
CaVe-In Which Will Probably Cost Many
WOrkmen Their Lives.
Seven People, at Least Known TO be
Entombed.
The Work of Rescuing the Fated
Miners Going ON as Rapidly as Pos
sIb1e-Six People Killed in a Rail-
way Collision in Ohio-The venez-
uelan Question.

VICTOR (Col), Jan. ga terrible ac-
cident occurred about noon yesterday
at the Anna Lee mine of the Portland
Company on Battle Mountain. Eight
men were caught in a big cave-in and
are in all probability dead. The names
OF the miners working in the Anna Lee
shaft are: Superintendent w. E. Loane,
Assistant Superintendent Thomas E.
Sheldon, Jim Hancock, Pat Nee, Jack
Mallory, Joe Dinsmore, Mike McGuirk,
Thomas Harnan and an unknown man.
Loane, Sheldon and Harnan were 60
ing down in the cage when the cave-in
occurred. They were in the cage be-
tween the third and fourth levels when
the shaft collapsed. 1t is possible that
they have been thrown into one of the
drifts and are safe.
The work of rescuing the eight min
ers who were caught in the awful cave
in at the mine, and which has been
prosecuted as rapidly as the extremely
dangerous condition of affairs will per-
nit still continues.
Victor and the entire Cripple Creek
district is still discussing the terrible
accident, which will no doubt prove a
salutary lesson to mine owners whose
sole purpose has been to extract the
greatest amount of ore regardless of
the safety of human life.
Victor was crowded all day with peo-
pie and the Anna Lee mine has been
surrounded by hundreds of anxious
friends and relatives who were eager
to learn the latest developments, which,
as the hours slowly rolled by, became
more and more discouraging, dissipat-
ing the last lingering hope entertained
that some of the imprisoned men might
be rescued alive
The drift from the seventh level of the
Scranton mine, which was started
soon after the cave-in occurred, and
which was cut through thirty-five feet
of solid granite, reached the Anna Lee
shaft at 11:30 last night. From this
point down a distance of 200 feet the
Anna Lee shaft is open and the work of
removing the great masses of rock and
broken timbers was begun.
The debris is being dropped to the
bottom of the Lee shaft, and when
this shaft is filled the rescue work will
be greatly retarded, owing to the fact
that the wreckage will have to be car
ried through and hoisted up from the
Scranton.
The cave-in starts at a depth of
thirty-five feet and extends down 700
feet, and at the point where the Scran-
ton level cuts through the Lee shaft is
one solid mass of jammed rock and
timbers, which indicates too well what
a crushed and mangled condition the
lost miners must be in.
At 4:30 p. m. a telephone message
from the camp estimated that the
imprisoned cage was still fifteen feet
above.
General Manager John Harnan, who
was at first reported as lost, is alive, he
having come up on the last trip before
the accident.
A full and correct list of the men in
the mine follows Thomas Sheldon,
Assistant Superintendent, leaves wife
and three children at Denver; w. E.
Loane, foreman, leaves wife; Joe Duns-
more, leaves wife and child; Thomas
Harnan, single; Patrick May, single;
Jack Maloy single; Frank McQuirk,
single.
The lives of all the men are insured,
the Portland company's rules making
it compulsory for all it's employees TAX
ing this precaution for the protection of
their families in case of accident or
death.