Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-01
Coz Oner Julien Held Two In
quests Yesterday.
COMPANIES NOT TO BLAME
Sweitzer Died From Injuries Received
in the Rarus--Tucker Was
Instantly Killed,

Coroner Phil Julien presided at w
inuuests Yesterday, the first during the
afternoon, on the remains of Frank
Sweitzer, the miner who died Thursday
from INJURIES received in the Rarus sew
eral days earlier. The second inquest
was held last night and was an inquiry
into the cause of the death of w. Z.
Tucker, who was killed in the Blu jay
mine on Thursday afternoon.
The composite stories of Foreman
Nicholas Treloar, Claude Harness, }. X.
Pomeroy. and John O'Brien, all employees
of the Rarus, DR.. Freund, Deputy MIN
ing Inspector Frank Hunter, Charles ko-
sanka. z. j. Morgan and John Mills, all
witnesses, who testified at the inquest,
was to the effect that Sweitzer was at
work on the fourth floor of the 400 lever
of the Rarus last Tuesday. Sweltzer was
preparing to put in a set of timbers, ko-
sanka was working IN the same floor, %
or 80 feet away from Sweitzer. About l
o'clock, or a little later, Kosanka heard
the crash of a fall of ground, and I'M
mediately afterwards heard SWeltzer
cry,
Come, quick; l am hurt!'
He rushed to Sweitzer's assistance;
Sweitzer had been knocked down by the
fall of ground, and across his legs had
fallen a large rock, weighing probably
200 pounds or more; Kosanka managed to
pry the rock off Sweitzer, and about this
| time Morgan, Mills and O'Brien, who
were working near by and who had heard
the cry for help, came up. The men took
Sweizer to the surface and ne was re-
| moved to Murray & Freund'S hospital.
The witnesses were agreed that the acct
dent could not have been anticipated.
The opinion of the men who were work
.,r -, ia, vo;,o x,oc tlat thn pnn1y 90 ~
! out of the face of the wall, and was a
portion of a large block that had dropped
off and rolled over from a seam, and 1T
could not have been seen except upon
close examination. A small fragment
had dropped out earlier, and Sweitzer's
attention was called to it, but he replied
that he considered the ground safe.
On being placed in the hospital ambu
lance. Sweitzer told Foreman Treloar
that the accident was wholly unexpected
Several of the witnesses, who had
known Sweitzer five or six years, said he
was a competent miner and understood
his business.
DR.. Freund's testimony was to the eff
feet that when Sweitzer was taken to
the hospital he was suffering from the
shock. The right leg was fractured
above the ankle, the left leg was bruised,
and there were no other injuries. After
some hours embolism set in. The doctor
explained embolism as an absorption OF
the fatty matter Of the marrow from the
bone of the broken leg into the circula-
ton, resulting in a clogg1ng of the blood
passages, and resulting in brain paraly-
sis and death.
The testimony of Deputy Mining In
spector Frank Hunter was to the effect
that the ground was apparently safe,
and no one could be blamed for the acct
dent.
The verdict was as follows:
''That deceased came to his death on
March 80, 1899, at Butte, Silver Bow
county, Montana, from eWbolism, pro-
duced by injuries sustained in an acct
dem in the Rarus mine on March 2S, 1899,
and from the evidence we, the jury, find
no one responsible for said accident