The man killed was identified as Patrick Weier, who worked as a tour guide at the mine. Weier had a 7-year-old son and lived in Victor, a community of less than 400 in the area, officials said.

Twelve others, as well as another guide, who were already on a tour were rescued after being trapped for approximately six hours at the 1,000-foot level, officials said. The cause of the accident ...

A tour guide for the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour in Colorado was identified as the lone death following an elevator mishap that trapped 23 others who were rescued.

Patrick Weier, a Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine tour guide, died after being trapped for several hours underground on Thursday after an elevator malfunctioned, authorities said. At around noon, the ...

Weier, 46, was killed in an accident at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Colorado, where he worked as a tour guide. He was with 10 others on an elevator when it malfunctioned Thursday. Patrick ...

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo — A 46-year-old man who was an employee of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine has been identified as the person killed Thursday when there was a malfunction of the elevator that ...

An elevator accident inside Colorado's Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine killed a tour guide, injured four, and left 12 people trapped for hours. Investigators are now looking into the cause of the ...

A tour guide killed at a former Colorado gold mine last year fell out of a crowded elevator taking tourists below ground after apparently not latching its door closed, documents obtained by The ...

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo — A tour guide who was killed in an accident at a Cripple Creek mine last year had trouble closing the elevator's door before it descended into the 1,000-feet-deep mine ...

Weier was a “phenomenal” guide and told visitors that he was an experienced miner, said Jennifer Nolan of Zanesville, Ohio, who toured the mine in August. The tour began with Nolan's group ...

The harrowing account of the October accident that killed Patrick Weier, 46, at the Mollie Kathleen Mine in the mountains near Colorado Springs was included in an investigative report obtained by ...