One dead, 12 trapped during tour of Colorado mine after equipment malfunction

One idiosyncratic is dead, 12 radical stay trapped, and 11 others were rescued from a Colorado excavation aft a fashionable tourer attraction sustained an "equipment malfunction" during a tour, authorities said Thursday.

The incidental occurred astatine the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine successful Cripple Creek, which is closed for mining, but inactive gives tours astir 1,000 feet underground, the Teller County Sheriff's Office said. 

Around noon, a mechanical contented occurred with the elevator that takes tourists into the mine, creating a information for riders, authorities said. 

"They are harmless astatine the 1,000-foot level," Sheriff Jason Mikesell said of those trapped. "They honestly don't cognize that we've had an contented different than there's a occupation with the elevator."

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Entrance to the Mollie Kathleen Mine successful Cripple Creek, Colo. The historical mining municipality conscionable southbound of Colorado Springs. Tourists flock present to larn of the area's Gold Rush bequest and to acquisition a portion of the infamous Wild West.  (Nina Raingold/Getty Images)

"They're drinking water. They person chairs," helium added. "They person blankets. They person what they request for now."

Eleven people, including 2 children, were rescued utilizing a trolley car. Four of them had insignificant injuries, portion an unidentified person died astir 500 feet down wrong the mine.

Authorities were waiting for engineers from the authorities to look astatine the elevator to find whether it was harmless to statesman bringing the trapped visitors backmost up. 

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said helium was alert of the situation. 

The tours are unfastened from May done the 2nd play successful October.

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The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour is simply a fashionable tourer attraction. (Google Maps)

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"I person spoken to the Teller County Sheriff and County Commissioners and volition enactment successful interaction done the people of this rescue effort," helium said successful a statement. "The authorities is assisting Teller County and sending resources to rescue those wrong the mine. We volition bash everything imaginable and assistance the region to guarantee a speedy and harmless solution of the situation."