The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
MINNESOTA
UNDERGROUND, But
KILLED BY A BOLT
REMARKABLE ACCIDENT AT LUD-
INGTON SHAFT.
lightning Strikes the Shafthouse, Fol
lows the Steel Gable 1000 Feet
Underground and Explodes Charges
of Dynamite-Two Miners Instantly
Killed.
Special to The Journal.

epec1a! TO The journal.
Duluth, Mimi, Sept. 1.-THE strangest acct
dent that ever occurred In this part Of the coun-
try took place at the Ludington shaft, Of the
Oliver Mining company day or two ago. Meh
working more than 1000 feet underground We're
struck by ligh thing and killed.
Men were at the bottom of the new shaft
sinking. They had just drilled Il set Of holes
and filled them with powder for blasting and
were about to get up out of the way and dis
charge them when thunderstorm on.
lightning struck the shafthouse 1000 feet above
them, the current ran down the steel cable
reaching the bucket in which they were to be
raised, jumped to the wire attached to the
powder and exploded the charges Of dynamite.
Two miners We're instantly killed and another
was severely hurt.
On the same day a laborer at the ore docks
in Two Harbors missed his footing in the ore
of car being unloaded into the dock pocket. He
fell into the ore, slid with it thru the bottom OF
the car, dropped into the dock rocket which
holds 200 tons of ORE slid thru this and and
down into the hold Of the ship below, total
distance of about seventy-fve feet. He was I'M
injured, tho the was piled up about and
over him and fell with him the entire distance.
Lumber Shipments Booming.
Lumber shipments from the Superior side Of
the bay in August were larger than In any month
of this year, footing up to $500, o0n feet Those
from this side 65,Oo0,O00 feet. Two Har-
bors shipped 100000 feet. The records of the
Sault canals for the month showed that total
shipments out Of Lake Superior for the month
month preceding-145 100000 feet, making the
forwardings for the year to Sept. 697, 900 900
feet. OF this Duluth and vicinity has supplied
more than half The stream of boards that has
been coming down from Cloquet and Scanlon is
maintai ned, even increased, and mills there are
hustling to get out all they have sold. They
will be able to sell very little to go out
this way this year.
Prices unchanged. They are hard to dis
cover, sales infrequent now. Aside from
come small lots and few fairly good sales made
from the interior mills there has been little OF
nothing doing the past week. Lumber for sale
Is good deal harder to find than buyers for It,
The ST. Louis mill and Leisure mills are run
ming day and night and will be kept In steady
operation far into the winter, probably all the
year. At the Leisure they have taken out the
band resaw and will only the two-man bano
mills. Saving mostly Norway, the resaw was
not so necessary. Other live mills about the
~harbor all saving, aside from the Scott Graft
The Murray mill is not likely to do any more
work. 1t is in such shape that extensive over
hauling will be required to permit 1T to run, ant
this may never be undertaken The Morley
Heath mill is not considered in the list of live
mills. It's career practically a:
1t was built.