30 years ago – March 15, 1991
Making good on last year’s promise to make a donation to the Gilpin County Mine Rescue Team, District Attorney Don Mielke presented a $10,000 check to Van Cullar, who heads up the team. Although mine rescue members knew Mielke’s office planned on making a donation, the amount clearly surprised them. The team last year recovered the bodies of Luke Clyburn and John McDaniel from an inactive mine shaft near Central City at the request of Mielke’s investigators, who had been working on the double homicide for nine years. It was during that operation that the investigators became aware of the rescue team’s critical need for more safety equipment.
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