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2 ex-Sago miners commit suicide; acquaintances say the disaster surely haunted them |
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Written by asap
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Tuesday, 26 September 2006 |
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Two miners whose jobs included watching over safety at the Sago Mine before the deadly explosion in January committed suicide within a month. Neither man had been blamed for the disaster that killed 12 of their comrades
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It wasn't their fault.
But two miners whose jobs included watching over safety at the Sago Mine have committed suicide in the past month.
TOO MUCH
Both men were working at the Sago Mine on the day of the blast that killed 12 of their comrades. Neither has been blamed for the disaster and neither one's family has definitively linked the suicides to the accident.
But those who knew the men say there is little doubt the tragedy haunted them.
"I'm not sure anybody ever gets over it," said Vickie Boni, the ex-wife of one of them. "You live with it every day."
THE MEN
John Nelson Boni, whose job that day was to maintain water pumps, shot himself Saturday at his home in Volga, State Police said.
William Lee "Flea" Chisolm, the 47-year-old dispatcher responsible for monitoring carbon monoxide alarms and communicating with crews underground that morning, shot himself at his Belington home Aug. 29, authorities said Tuesday.
THE INVESTIGATION SO FAR
State and federal mine-safety agencies have not determined the cause of the Jan. 2 blast. But a spokeswomen for both agencies said that both men had been thoroughly interviewed and there had been no plans to talk with them again.
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