SHORT CIRCUIT CAUSED
FATAL MINE EXPLOSION
One of the wires attached to the dynamite charge that killed Frank Anderson February 23 in the American Cement Plaster Company's mine was attached to one of the electric light wires, and a short circuit exploded the charge. This was testified to at the inquest held by Dr. Murry Wildman, coroner, Monday evening when the explosion was investigated. This probability was explained recently in The Messenger's account of the explosion.
Dr. Wildman talked with Frank Spencer, Anderson's helper who is still in the hospital. Spencer declares that he knows nothing of the cause of the accident. Superintendent Holderbaum, Mine Foreman Jordan and the loaders and drivers who were in that part of the mine where the explosion occurred were on the witness stand Monday. The manner in which the blasts were fired was investigated thoroughly. According to testimony, the men who fire the blasts are cautioned not to attach either wire leading to the dynamite charge until the men firing the charge have unreeled the lead wires to a distance of from 160 to 200 feet from the charge. Spencer and Anderson were found close to where the fatal charge exploded.
The coroner's jury consisted of T. J. Carmichael, Dr. T. E. Devereaux and Peter Reilly.
FATAL MINE EXPLOSION
One of the wires attached to the dynamite charge that killed Frank Anderson February 23 in the American Cement Plaster Company's mine was attached to one of the electric light wires, and a short circuit exploded the charge. This was testified to at the inquest held by Dr. Murry Wildman, coroner, Monday evening when the explosion was investigated. This probability was explained recently in The Messenger's account of the explosion.
Dr. Wildman talked with Frank Spencer, Anderson's helper who is still in the hospital. Spencer declares that he knows nothing of the cause of the accident. Superintendent Holderbaum, Mine Foreman Jordan and the loaders and drivers who were in that part of the mine where the explosion occurred were on the witness stand Monday. The manner in which the blasts were fired was investigated thoroughly. According to testimony, the men who fire the blasts are cautioned not to attach either wire leading to the dynamite charge until the men firing the charge have unreeled the lead wires to a distance of from 160 to 200 feet from the charge. Spencer and Anderson were found close to where the fatal charge exploded.
The coroner's jury consisted of T. J. Carmichael, Dr. T. E. Devereaux and Peter Reilly.
SHORT CIRCUIT CAUSED
FATAL MINE EXPLOSION
One of the wires attached to the dynamite charge that killed Frank Anderson February 23 in the American Cement Plaster Company's mine was attached to one of the electric light wires, and a short circuit exploded the charge. This was testified to at the inquest held by Dr. Murry Wildman, coroner, Monday evening when the explosion was investigated. This probability was explained recently in The Messenger's account of the explosion.
Dr. Wildman talked with Frank Spencer, Anderson's helper who is still in the hospital. Spencer declares that he knows nothing of the cause of the accident. Superintendent Holderbaum, Mine Foreman Jordan and the loaders and drivers who were in that part of the mine where the explosion occurred were on the witness stand Monday. The manner in which the blasts were fired was investigated thoroughly. According to testimony, the men who fire the blasts are cautioned not to attach either wire leading to the dynamite charge until the men firing the charge have unreeled the lead wires to a distance of from 160 to 200 feet from the charge. Spencer and Anderson were found close to where the fatal charge exploded.
The coroner's jury consisted of T. J. Carmichael, Dr. T. E. Devereaux and Peter Reilly.
FATAL MINE EXPLOSION
One of the wires attached to the dynamite charge that killed Frank Anderson February 23 in the American Cement Plaster Company's mine was attached to one of the electric light wires, and a short circuit exploded the charge. This was testified to at the inquest held by Dr. Murry Wildman, coroner, Monday evening when the explosion was investigated. This probability was explained recently in The Messenger's account of the explosion.
Dr. Wildman talked with Frank Spencer, Anderson's helper who is still in the hospital. Spencer declares that he knows nothing of the cause of the accident. Superintendent Holderbaum, Mine Foreman Jordan and the loaders and drivers who were in that part of the mine where the explosion occurred were on the witness stand Monday. The manner in which the blasts were fired was investigated thoroughly. According to testimony, the men who fire the blasts are cautioned not to attach either wire leading to the dynamite charge until the men firing the charge have unreeled the lead wires to a distance of from 160 to 200 feet from the charge. Spencer and Anderson were found close to where the fatal charge exploded.
The coroner's jury consisted of T. J. Carmichael, Dr. T. E. Devereaux and Peter Reilly.
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