Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-12-21

SERIOUS AccIDENr.-We regret to re-
cord a serious accident to a very worthy
gentleman, Mr.. Foster, ice merchant in
Virginia City. He was riding a horse
last evening, after dark, on the Ophir
grade, near the Canon House, west of
Gold Hill proper, when the animal fell,
and as misfortune would have it, broke
one Of Mr.. Fosters legs. AS it was
raining and storming at the time, no
person was out, and Mr.. Foster laid
there entirely helpless, in the cold blasts
of drifting snow, wind and rain, until
midnight, when some of the miners be-
gan TO com out Of the lower depths,
and when vending their way to their
houses they discovered the unfortunate
Foster, almost chilled in death, and en-
tirely helpless with his broken limb.
Oh, if there is a time in the life of n hui
man being when its best manhood will
manifest itself, when the noble impulse
of his good heart will loose itself in do
ing a good and II God-adored act,
its prompt, its benevolent, its disin-
te~restednesS, was shown last night by
several of our noble and good MINERS in
Gold Hill. Almost dead, they picked
up the poor unfortunate Mr.. Foster,
wrapped him up in blankets, and on a
rude bier of boards they carried him to
his home in Virginia. May God bless
the hardy NINERs-for as II class, in
many hardships with them, we have
ever found them to possess hearts rs big
as Gods best created. 1--WE have not
the entire particulars of this sad acct
dent which happened last night in our
midst, when our people were in their
comfortable homes, and when the ele-
ments outside were boisterouS and in
clement, but we shall endeavOr to find
out, and we shall publish to the world
the names ofthe kind-hearted men who
in the dead hour of the night, were ac-
tors in this noble case of humanity.
P. S.-We have made Il little further
inquiry into the particulars of Mr.. FoS-
ter'S accident, and we find that it oc-
CURED after midnight, just back Of the
Eclipse mine, Gold Hill proper, instead
of on the 0phir Grade; and the hour
about 3 o'clock in the morning. The
kind-hearted men who assisted Mr.. Eos
ter in his dire distress, were Messrs. e.
Feak, T. Dimon, ]. Dowd, c. Denise,
H. Holman and J. Donahue. These
men, working in different mines near
where the accident happened, heard, as
they were coming from their work cries
of distress, and on going to where the
voice emanated, they found Mr.. Foster,
and his horse standing near by. Mr..
Fosters leg is horribly fractured from
the knee down, and may require ampu-
tation. Dr.. Briarly is his surgeon, and
was promptly on hand when called, af-
ter the patient arrived.
MAILING UP.-The Yellow Jacket
Company, at the dumps Of the waste
rock from the new works, are building
u fine stone wall along Crown Point
street. The wall is to confne the waste
rock and prevent it rolling down and
blocking up the street. At the present
time the wall is, II some places, twenty
feet high and has a three inch plank
laid in the wall at intervals Of three or
four feet with ties running back into
the dump pile. This arrangement will
prevent the wall from being pressed out
and falling down. Every thing around
this mine is being lone in a very system
attic style, and with an eye to the fu-
ture as well as the present.
FAST FRErGHr.-Yesterday, Kennedy
Il Mallon received an invoice Of goods
that had been only twenty-seven days in
coming from Alta. The roads arc now
impossible for freight teams. No stages
have arrived by the Dutch Flat route
for two days. If the storm extends
over to California we shall expect to
hear of terrible damage being done to
the Pacific Railroad.