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Ernest Beckworth

Posted 2008-02-17 by Sharon
Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ
Oct. 7, 1955, p. 1

One Dead And Injune Injured Following Accident At Mine

Ernest Beckworth, 45, of Redlands, Calif., is dead and James P. Rust, 34, of Salome is in Community Hospital as the result of an accident at the Cactus Johnson lead mine 14½ miles south of Salome about noon September 30.

According to the story Mr. Rust told at the hospital, he was handling the brake equipment on a cable lift and Mr. Beckworth was riding in an empty bucket on the lift. He says a clamp on a loaded bucket snagged an empty bucket causing the cable to snap. The snapping cable hit Mr. Rust and knocked him down the steep mountain incline. And the bucket in which Mr. Beckworth was riding plunged down the mountainside.

Mr. Rust said he spent several hours calling for help. As no one could hear him, he crawled some 1,000 feet to his truck and drove to Salome. He was brought to the hospital here where it was discovered he had a compound fracture of the left leg, cuts and bruises.

A rescue party from Salome went immediately to the mine to help Beckworth. It was approximately nine hours after the accident before he arrived at the hospital here. He died the following afternoon.

His body has been shipped to Amarillo, Tex., for burial.




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