Bisbee Daily Review

Coroner Continued Inquest on the Death of Two Miners Killed Last Night.

Head Geologist of Amalgamated Copper Company Testifies to Some Sensational Statements, and Miners Also Furnish Strong Evidence.

Butte, Mont., Jan. 2.—After examining fourteen witnesses this afternoon, Coroner Egan continued until Monday the inquest over the bodies of Samuel Oleson and Fred Divel, who, it is alleged, were last night killed in the Michael Davitt mine by dynamite in the hands of unknown persons in the Rarus mine.

H. V. Winchell, head geologist of the Amalgamated Copper Company, today testified to discovering vast amounts of hay in the "raise," just above the place where the Amalgamated miners were working, and this, he declared, was burned, the stifling smoke being forced in on the Amalgamated men to prevent them from carrying out the orders of the United States Court in making an inspection of the Michael Davitt to determine how much ore had been illegally extracted from the Michael Davitt veins.

According to the testimony of miners who worked with Oleson and Divel from the time the first hole was blasted into the old workings of the Michael Davitt mine, they were continually obstructed by men from above, who threw rocks and other heavy material down, besides setting off powder and blank fuses to scare them from work. Many times the men were compelled to leave their work on account of the smoke sent down from above blinding and choking them so that they could not stay in the raise.