Colorado gold mine tour guide identified as victim killed in elevator mishap: 'A good man,' sheriff says

A tour guide was the lone death after an elevator malfunction inside a former Colorado gold mine turned popular tourist attraction trapped 23 people as far as 1,000 feet underground, authorities said Friday. 

Patrick Weier, 46, was killed during the incident at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, the Teller County Sheriff's Office said. 

Weier, a mine tour guide and resident of Cripple Creek, left behind a seven-year-old daughter. 

"He was a good man," Teller County...