Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-29

ture of the skull. or in other words cut through the scalp and the skull and a part of the skull depressing the brain. The lines of the fracture ran into the base of the brain. There were no other bones broken and the neck was not broken"
 John Brown, the miner who fired the three blasts, was the next wit ness. He said: q was working on the 400 level and blasted three holes about 3:25 o'clock. using six-foot fuse When I left the f00 I stopped off at the 300, then got on and went to the main shaft. We had been given orders to blast as near as possi- ble at noon time. I have been work had worked at the southwest about a shift and half The charges were set about g feet from the shaft. did not hear any of the reports as l got on the cage and went down to the 300 foot It is impossible that the rock could have come from the charge itself"
 Shot An Hour Late
 Dave R. Riley testified in part: T was working on the 300 when the accident occurred. saw Brown and asked him if he was shooting and he said. Yes. T had good shift, shot two holes. came up and started home then We had orders to blast at 23O. did not notice any rock in the shaft that looked dangerous and ! did not see any place in the shaft that was not Jagged"
 F. J. Wright, or Steam Shovel Wright. as he is called by the min CTS, was one of the injured miners and was standing next to. Sanberg when the latter was killed He said: When we were down about 30 feet rocks began to fall and at the sec ond shot the rocks struck us between the and and the last time it struck us about 50 feet below the 300 do not knoY where the rock came from.
 There were eight of us on the cage. l said to my partner. Come on Davie. there is room for one more, but he did not get on and 1t is lucky Tor him that he did not, for he would lave been dead man. The rock began falling close to the 200. The bonnet Of the cage was what saved our lives. I was crazy when I got out. 1 did not know that the holes were to go ofi When the rocks began sitting down I said:
 Something Coming"
 Something is coming, boys I heard the report of the second shot befo9e the lock hit the bonnet. I had never noticed any rock falling before"
 NJ. C. Benton, also among the in jured. said: T was working on the southwest. l went down on the third cage. There were eight of us. We got close to the 200 when the rock started. after the first shot. A man next to me started to shouting and said that his arm was broken. l told him that we could not help it and that NC all wanted to live and to stop pushing to the center. l heard three reports. We were about 20 feet iron. the bottom when the last came The rock came from above us"
 Trnton stated that in his opinion il was possible for the rock to have come from the drift where the charges were set and explained by a diagram how it was possible for a rock to rebound and strike the cage as it wen. down. He stated that when they got on the cage, Sanberg ! doubled backwards and his head fell under the cage. He was still breath ing at that time. he stated, and he | started 10 give him water, bat he expired almost immediately. J. l.. Johnson. a cousin of Brick | Sanberg, stated that Sanberg was married and that he was a native oi | Finland and had been a miner for five years. He was about 25 years of age. lie was not present when the accident occurred. being on the ! night shift.
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 Darr O'Connell, asked if there were places in the shaft that were not Jagged. replied: There was one i place near the 200 that needs lag ging and I told Watkins about it and it was fixed. There has been no in spection of the shaft that I know of. l told Brown to get of the shots at noon. He has been working there 1 for quite a while and I thought he knew enough to stay and count the holes. There were no special orders yesterday"
 ! Harvey Saxby, a leaser, testified that there was tagging off in place l in the shaft where the surface was of hard lime, that it was damp, but was not dripping. though there was a place dripping on the 100 hack oi l the station.
 Was "Too Far h."
 James Cook testified: T told Brown that the shooting was at 2 o'clock. but he said, No, the drift is too far in now, which ! suppose