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then went back 30 feet from there.
down another raise. which was . lad
der-road down to the 3rd level to tell
the TRAINERS to stop tramming from
this raise and they went then In search
of the shift-boss for assistance to help
Romano Pedni ont But when they
came back he had gone 50 far down in
the raise that he was buried up with
dirt Then the shift boss went TO the
3rd level and opened the chute and left
the dirt run out from this No ) raise
and Romano Pedni came thru with the
dirt but he was already dead.
He was young. unmarried man Of
Italian descent.
No XII.
A fatal accident occurred at the
Bristol mine Aug. o about 500 p. IN.
Emil Aspholin, a miner came TO his
death at the Bristol mine by falling of
of bench Of ground.
Emil Aspholin and Eric Hagglund
had belonged working on bench of
ground in the east end Of the open-pit
OF the Bristol mine. This bench OF
ground Is about G feet wide OF more
and about 20 feet down from surface.
Emil Aspholin and Eric Hagglnnd
were IN the act OF rigging mp their
drilling machine 90 drill. Eric Hag
glund went back few feet from where
they were rigging mp their machine to
get some machine drills. When he
turned around he saw that mis- partner
was gone. lie called to his partner
bnt received no answer. He then gave
the alarm TO some men that were work
ing close by in the open-pit and they
went and searched for him and found
him down about 80 feet below the
bench of ground where be had been
working. Whether Aspholin WAS
struck by piece of ground OF whether
he stumbled and fell over the bench of
ground. no one can tell But he fell
from the bench OF ground where he
was working about 81 feet below ON
another bench OF ground there be lost
control Of himself and fell down an.
other 90 feet and there he was found
by his partner and his assistants. He
was rendered unconscious and died the
next day. He was a young unmar-
ried man of Finnish descent.
Nus. KILL IL XIV.
Two fatal accidents occurred at the
Baltic mine Aug. 9TH. about 90 p m
John Mytdling powder-man, and
Philip Krugis skip-tender came 10
their death by the explosion Of powder
at the 3rd level Of the Baltic mine.
Just before the accident occurred
John Mytdling was heating powder for
the miners This heater was located
in drift. about 20 feet from the
side OF the cross-cut and this drift
wac about 30 feet from the shaft and
the heater contained, at the time
Mytdling was heating powder. 2 boxes
of powder. A little before 8 90 o'clock
4 miners came up from the 4th TO the
3rd level to the powder house where
Mytdling was. to get some powder 10
blast with. While Mytdling was in
the act OF delivering powder fuse and
caps b. these men. one OF the miners
noticed that the heater was sfre and
he said. "Mytdling the heater is AFR"
and the miners and Mytdling left
the powder house. A little over 100
feet from the powder house in the
main crosscut there was n laider-road
that led from the Bird TO the 4th level
in which the miners went from the
3rd level down to the ith level
A few minutes after the miners got
to the 4th level the explosion occurred.
Capt Bengry was at the 18th level at
the time OF the explosion. He left the
ith level and went TO the Bird level 10
investigate aud when he got to the 3rd
level he started thru the cross-cut and
when he was about IS feet from the
powder. house he found John Mytdling
in the bottom of the cross cent dead,
with his hands full of fuse and caps
which he had been liking mp for the
miners.
When one Of the miners gave the
alarm that the heater was ahre. they
started thru the cross-cut to go 10 the
9TH level and John Mytdling was fol.
lowing them. John Mytdling went
part ways to the 18th level when he
turned and went back 10 the powder.
house again and gathered up all the
fuse and caps that he could find and
started for the 4th level again, but
when he got about 75 feet from the
powder house the explosion occurred
and he was killed instantly.
Philip Krugis, at the time that the
accident occurred, was engaged in run.
ming dirt into the skip from POCKET
which was at the bottom Of the shaft
station IN the Ord level.
The point where he was running
dirt into the skip was about 20 feet