One person has died in an accident at a Teller County tourist mine. Another four people were injured and 12 people are still trapped about 1,000 feet underground. There are children involved as well. Eleven people have already been rescued from the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine near Cripple Creek.

The tourists visiting the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine of Cripple Creek, Colorado, recently faced a tragic accident on Thursday. While most were safely rescued after being trapped in the mine, one of the tourists passed away.

The person who died in an accident on Thursday inside Colorado's Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine was a 46-year-old tour guide.

The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine near Cripple Creek in Teller County where rescue personnel are working to free 12 people who were trapped during a tour about 1,000 feet underground. One person is known to have died after what officials are calling an equipment malfunction.

The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine was closed in the 1960s but has since held tours of the mines which remained popular over the years.

A group of tourists experienced a terrifying ordeal on Thursday when an equipment malfunction caused them to be trapped underground in a Colorado gold mine shaft, leaving one person dead. The tour group became trapped near the bottom of the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek,