Daily national Democrat., 1859-03-20
Rutte Comfy.

The following items are from the Butte
Record, of Saturday:
FATAL ACCIDENT-The painful duty de-
wolves upon us of announcing the sudden and
melancholy death of G. w Wilmot, Esq, of
the Mineral Slide, or Little Butte Creek min
ing district. 1t occurred on Tuesday, the 5th
inst, while himself and partner were at work
in their mining claim. Their claim was stu.
ated in very steep bank, and n short dis
tance below ditch The ground above them
had become saturated 10y water from the
ditch, and II tremendous avalanche was pre-
cipitated upon them, carrying Mr.. Wimot
with it, and extending nearly half mile
down the side of the hill Mr. Wilmot's body
was found over one-third of n mile from
where he had been at work, and in a perfect.
ly nude condition with the exception of his
neck tie. His partner, whose name we did
not ascertain, saved himself by springing I'm
Ger an over-hanging rock, which resisted the
force Of the avalanche, and over which it
passed
Mr. Wilmot was generally known and high
| ly esteemed throughout the county, and his
horrible and untimely deeth will cause uni
versal regret. He was formerly q member of
the Board of Supervisors of Butte county,
the responsible duties of which position he
discharged with honor to himself and salts
faction to his constituents
ACCIDENT. "A miner named James Mar
shal, was seriously but not fatally injured
while ut work in a tunnel in the opposite
bank of the river, on W Wednesday last. 1t
was oycasioned by the earth filling upon
him. nearly sufficient to bury him. In the
present saturated and moist condition of the
ground, miners cannot be too careful; while
ut work in tunnels or deep bank diggings.-
Every wet season is prolific of frighttul acci-
dents from the caving Of tunnels and bank
claims
HEAVY BLAsTING-We have had occasion
heretofore to mention some heavy blasts re-
ported by IT, e operations of the Channel Rock
Mining Company. On Wednesday last, Il
rock weighing near fifty pounds, was thrown
some distance from the claim, on the opposite
side of the river, and came down through the
roof of q house occupied by family smash
ing tables, etc. The lady of the house. and
two or three children were seated ut the ta-
bic. and IN hearing the report, ran to the
door just in time to avoid the descent of the
debris. 1t was narrow escape, and should
induce Capt. Lyttle not to use over four or
five kegs of powder at a single blast, because
he happens to have rich claim lamp it
light
SLUIcE RoBBING-CHGNAMAN SHor.-On Sat
urday last Coroner's inquest was held on
the body of Chinaman, which had been
found the day previous by Capt. Lyttle, near
the bluff at the lower end of town. It was
found that he had been shot While the ex-
animation was progressing, Mr.. NJ. D. Case
miner who has long been known in the
community as worthy and industrious citi-
zen, came forward and volunteered his evi
dence. He stated that he had been watching
his sluice boxes on the night of the 10th, and |
about o'clock on the morning of the llth, |
when he saw Chinaman with two baskets
strung on pole, coming down on the string |
of sluice boxes. When about half way down, |
he stopped, sat down his baskets and com
meneed cleaning out the sluice boxes Case
then fired his shot Gun at him and the Chi |
naman fell, but Immediately recovered and |
ran off followed by Case, but was soon lost
sight of. Several other witnesses were ex.
amined, but no further facts bearing upon the |
case were elected except the single fact that
the sluice boxes along the blnff had been fire.
quently plundered. The jury found that the
Chinaman came to his death by gun-shot
wound, fired by Case in defence of his prop
erty.