One person has died and 23 people have been rescued after an elevator malfunction trapped them hundreds of feet underground at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine, a tourist mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado,

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 malfunction as the mine shuts down for further inspection.

A tour guide died at a Colorado gold mine after an elevator experienced a mechanical issue hundreds of feet below ground, trapping a dozen tourists for several hours, authorities said. The tourists became stuck in the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine attraction in Cripple Creek on Thursday,

The group was roughly halfway to the bottom of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in the town of Cripple Creek when the mechanical glitch occurred

Investigators were trying to figure out Friday what led an elevator to malfunction at a former Colorado gold mine, killing one person.

One person died in an elevator malfunction at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine tourist site near Cripple Creek, which left 12 others stuck 1,000 feet underground.

At least one person is dead and four others are injured after an equipment malfunction temporarily trapped nearly two dozen people underground in a Colorado tourist mine, Teller County sheriff's officials said Thursday.

One person was killed was an elevator malfunctioned at a former gold mine in Colorado. A dozen people, some of them injured, were stranded underground for six hours before the elevator was fixed.