An Awful Drop

HOüghton, May 15.- ren amöermen were dashed to pieees in the Red Jacket perpendicular shaft of the Calumet and Hecla at noon Sanday. The miners werè coming' up in the cage to dinner and the engineer hoisted the cape against the timbers of the shaft, vvhen the coupling pin broke and the men and cage dashed downivard, over 3,000 feet, to the bottom. ïhe names of the killed are as follows: Allen Cameron, James Cocking, Andrew Edno. John Hicks, Michael Leav-itto, Joseph Pope, John Rodgers, Con Sullivan, James Trevni and Robert Wuopia. The cause of the accident was a faulty indicator, which did not show the brakeman in charge of the hoisting apparatus when the eage had reached the top of the shaft. Ernst Tul in, the engineer, says his indicator showed 750 feet more to hoist. Tulin could not stop the machinery in time, and when the iron car struck the beams at the top of the shaft the coupling pin or the steel wire rope by which the car was suspended broke, letting the ten occupants of the cage down to a fearful death at the bottom of the shaft, 3,000 feet below. The bodies of the unfortunate miners were brought to the surface this evening. They were found at the bottom of the 3,000-foot shaft almost mashed to a jelly, with probably not a whole bone lef t in their bodies. The searching party brought their dead companions up shaft No. 4, about half a mile distant frorn the scène of the accident. They had to hoist the corpses 600 ïeet by ropes to the level of shaft No. 4 and then carry them half a mile through the drifts. The coroner"s jury returned a verdict of accidental death, exonerating the Calumet & Hecla company from all blame, but recommendrag the establishment of a new system of indicators for its hoisting engines.