Colorado gold mine tour guide identified as victim killed in elevator mishap: 'A good man,' sheriff says
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The person who died Thursday during a mishap with an elevator inside a former Colorado gold mine was identified as a tour guide, authorities said Friday.
Weier, a mine tour guide and resident of Cripple Creek, left behind a seven-year-old daughter. Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com.
"He was a good man," Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell told reporters during a news conference Friday. "My feelings are that he was attempting to make everybody safe. I don't know what occurred though. . . . But I do know that, for us and what it looks like, he may have been a hero from the beginning.
"Anytime you're dealing with heavy machinery and 1,000-foot level, up to [the] 500[-foot] level in a mine, there could be accidents. And this was a tragic accident."
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