Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-03-01
THE EVENING NEWS.

KLLED.-Last night, little before o'olocS'
Mr. Rasse,,e. a stakeholder in the mine and
one of the Trustees of the Company was
precipitated to the bottom Of the man Snai,
and instantly killed. II appears that ne hdu
got into the cage used for lowering 'he car 10
20 down into the mine, and naa fe3cheo
station part way down the smart where ne
stoned the cage. Shortly aiter ne wiSneo 10
be lowered further down and struck the DELL
twice being the signal for the engineer to
Glover away" The engineer obeyed the
signal, and fifty or seventy-fye feet of rope
was paved out before Mr.. RaSsette loosened
,he cage from the chair on which 1t rested.
This was the state of affairs when he loosened
the cage, which dropped like rock to the
bottom Of the shaft with the unfortunate man
standing upon it. When found at the bot
tom of the shaft, his body was sight most
shocking to behold, being mangled in the
most horrible manner imaginable. Both his
arms and legs were broken in several places
and his skull broken into three pieces. Inc
whole top Of his skull was broken on, ana
Law back against his neck, in fact, the BODY
was but a shapeless, sic&ening mass OF man
Sled flesh and shattered bones. Ihose ABOVE,
while paying out the cable, began to imagine
from the way il went down that all was not
right, and the engineer had stopped the en-
zine, and the brakemen had gone to the shaft
to ask what was wrong Just at the moment
that the old man had loosened the cage. The
brakeman had hold Of the cable and was
leaning over the shaft singing out below,
when the car suddenly dropped. The brakes
man came very near being jerked down the
shaft by the sudden running out of the cable,
but luckily recovered his balance before too
far gone. Justice Atwill er obficio Coroner,
was sent for shortly after the accident and
went out to the mine to take charge oil
the body Of the unfortunate man, VINO
lost his life in so sudden and dreadful a man
ner. The old man knew little against the
most common dangers Of mines, yet was
often down in the underground works, and
when below had on many occasions lmPru-
deLtly ventured into dangerous places against
the remostrances of officers of the mine and
old miners. He formerly kept the Rassett
House, in San Francisco, and has been at
times quite wealthy.-ERterprTse Our Viz
Rinia reporter gives the following further par
ticulars of this sad accident: 1t appears from
the evidence, that the "cage" had been low
cred 10 the bottom of the shaft and that de-
ceased stepped out Of the second station on
nothing, and of course fell to the bottom,
striking on theear There are three stations
in the shaft The deeeased'S right arm and
leg were not broken, as stated above-but his
LEFT arm, shoulder and leg were. The shaft
is four hundred feet deep, and the station
from which he fell is ifty-three feet from the
bottom.
A RUSAwAY.-Last evening, about five
O'Clock, Mr.. John Hunt and Mr.. S. c. Morse
narrowly escaped being killed while coming
down from Virginia in one-borse buggy
II appears that the team Of Mr.. Graves, Su-
perintendent of the Empire Mill and Mining
Company's affairs, was standing hitched to
post near the Empire dump, when one of
the workmen ran car out upon the elevated
dump track. When the car was dumped the
box came off the wheels and rolled down the
bank toward the team. As the box tumbled
down toward the horses, they took fright,
and breaking loose, circled about and ran
down Main street. In going down the street,
they met a one horse buggy, in which were
Morse and Hunt. This they ran into and
cut in two, overturning the buggy and badly
injuring both the gentlemen who were in it.
Hunt was picked up in a state of insensi-
bllity and carried into a dhetors Office near by,
where he received such attentions as the ne
cessities Of his case required. Morse had
his face good deal cut and was badly bruis-
ed Although severely hurt, we believe the
injuries of neither Of the men are considered
dangerous. After the collision the horse be-
longing to the single buggy ran off with the
fore wheels of the vehicle and finally brought
up in front of the PoStotice. The team be-
longing to Mr.. Graves was stopped shortly
after striking the buggy, though the carriage
was badly smashed. Langton's stage was
coming up the street at the time Of the STAN
pede and came near being run into. The
street is narrow and is generally much crowd
ed; the only wonder Is, therefore, that more
damage was not done.
Nor So.-Our reporter yesterday stated a
Frenchman had taken, rather unwillingly,
cold bath in one of the shafts in the neighbor-
hood. He called on US to-day with request
that the report be contradicted, that is
to say, that he did not take the afore-
said cold bath. The public will
therefore please to understand that the
Frenchman alluded to did not touch the wa
ter-however wholesome soap and water are
conceded TO be. As the Irishman would say,
"bedad It wouldn't hurt him, at all, at all -
CAueHr.-Peruyian Joe, who attempted
to cut the throat of the proprietor of
saloon on the Divide, on Friday evening
last, with razor, and has since eluded the
officers, returned to his old quarters yester-
day, and was taken into custody. When ar
rested, he was threatening to finish the job
he had already begun. The wounded man
was in court. he was cut upon the chin and
neck
JUDGE KELLoee's CoURT.-Judge KEEL
logg's occupation is not gone. To-day ne
was occupied several hours in disposing Of
cases. The following actions comprise the
list. Inhabitants of town 25; Rafferty, dis
turbing peace, discharged. Town vs.. Span
ish Joe, disturbing peace, hned w. Town
sault, fined 800.
A Coon SIGN.-Saloon keepers in Viz
ginia say that Sunday is now their poorest
day for business. They now sell less liquor
on Sunday than on any other day in the week.
This is good indication, and shows that we
are advancing in morality. Formerly Sun
day was the big day for saloon keepers.
VIRGINIA POLICE COURT. - There were
only two cases before this Court this morn
ing-w. S. Kenty, assault and battery; set
for hearing at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
i. hASo SANt AAA wa
mitted in default of payment.
JUDGE ATwILL's CouRT.-Little business
was done in this Court this forenoon, the
Judge being engaged, in his capacity of Coro-
ner, in holding an inquest on the body of
Rasseste, killed last night in the main shaft
OF the Chollar mine.
The SISTER HELEN MNE.-The Trustees
Of this company are pushing their mining OPP
erations. This morning they let contract
to run tunnel into their clam. We have
TO hear good account from the Sister Helen
within Ri,ie months.
THERE win be apt to be a large train start
from this vicinity about the LIST of April for
the new mines, on Jordan Creek. and vicinity
altogether, from California and this Terri
tory, 400 to $50 men.