Investigators are trying to figure out what led to an elevator accident inside a former Colorado gold mine that killed a tour guide, injured four others and left a separate group of 12 people trapped for hours at the bottom of the tourist attraction 1,000 feet beneath the surface.
The elevator was descending into the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine last week in the mountains near Colorado Springs. At around 500 feet down, the person operating the elevator from the surface “felt something strange” and stopped it, Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said.
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