Tag: elevator
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Cripple Creek mine elevator had a bad, but not deadly, summer in the 1990s
Mine tour guide Patrick Weier, a 46-year-old father from Victor, was the sole fatality in a deadly elevator accident that also stranded a dozen people deep inside Cripple Creek’s Mollie Kathleen Mine for several hours Thursday afternoon. Weier was among about a dozen people inside the tourist mine’s rapidly-moving “cage” style elevator car when the…
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Mollie Kathleen Mine made headlines in 1994, when elevator system failed twice in 5 weeks
No one was injured in the 1994 Cripple Creek mine incidents.
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10 memorable Colorado Springs political moments that were covered by The Gazette
Some of the city’s most significant and far-reaching political moments — like the 1971 founding of the national Libertarian Party in a Colorado Springs living room — only loomed large as the years passed and completely escaped coverage in the local paper when they happened. Other events — from the 1894 Cripple Creek miner’s strike…
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VIDEO | The Elevator Operator
The last birdcage elevator operator in town keeps a magical trip alive. (Video by Katie Klann)