Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-06-14
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works Of the Yellow Jacket Company
yesterday afternoon, one Of the numerous
incidents, illustrative Of the risks incurred
by all at work about mines, and the ne
cessity Of great ~carefulness at all times,
occurred, which It is a wonder did not re-
suit disastrously. 1t appears that q new
rope had been put upon q reel being
worked there, and it seems there was too
much Of it for it run of the reel as the
cage with its car came to the surface. The
car was run off and dumped Of its load,
was returned and placed in position on
the cage, when the cage was lowered sui
6ciently to allow a plank ten feet long, a
foot wide and two inches thick to be run
under the bar at the top Of the cage.
Upon the end Of this plank, to balance
the weight Of both cage and car, q man
volunteered and did actually sit down
upon the same. Upon being Cautioned,
for the temerity he was displaying, he re-
piled. "he understood all about it, he
could hold them" The men went to
work to get the rope upon the reel, which
the moment it was accomplished, the
brake not being attached, down went cage
and car with unusual velocity and Mr..
Confident man at the end of the plank
was thrown up four or five feet and alight-
ed just at the edge Of the shaft. A more
narrow escape from death u informant
said he never saw As to the cage and
car it went some hundred, to q hundred
and fifty feet, before the brake could bring
it up. The plank having nothing partic-
ularly in its downward course to stop its
fight fetched up at the bottom OF the
shaft, fortunately. however, doing no in
jury. Take it all in all, it was q ~singularly
managed affair. and extraordinary in its
absence Of serious results, where such an
opening was made for them.
ANOTHER AccIDRNr.-Yesterday after
noon, in the Bowers mine, another acci-
dent happened, so we are informed by q
miner in an adjoining claim, which came
near killing two of the workmen. A new
hand had charge of the car, and acci-
dentally ran the car of the end OF the
track into the pit, falling about fourteen
feet. Two men were at work in the pit
NJ the time, near where the car fell. One
of the men was considerably hurt in the
hip.joint and ankle, and knocked sense
less. The carman fell along with the car,
and sustained a good deal of injury, al
though no bones were broken. Superin-
tendents cannot be too cautious how they
employ inexperienced hands as carmen.
The GRAND BENEFIT THIS EVENING"
P. NJ. Westwood, the excellect and well
known actor at Music Hall, this evening
takes q benefit for the FIRST time in this
State, on which occasion, in addition to
an extra good entertainment, will be pro-
duced the new and original sensational
comedy of 1.-THE Fenians in Canada, or
the Orangers." This piece, as its name
implies, is a romance founded on the late
raids into the British Provinces by the
Fenians. The story 10 Of exciting inter-
est, and the heroes pass through a series
Of adventures in which love. war and dan,
ger are dramatically and judiciously mixed,
ending, however, in the triumph Of the
Fenian cause.
PAINFUL AccIDENr.-Yesterday after
noon, while prac,icing in the gymnasium
in Virginia, r. NJ. Daggett met with a
severe accident. He was jumping up
from the spring-board, and missing his
calculation as to the place where he should
land, on the mattrass, he struck the heel
of his left foot on the edge Of the spring.
stand. His leg bone suffered a compound
fracture jus, above the ankle; a portion
of the bone %prorruding through the flesh
and presenting a most distressing sight.
His broken limb was set by DR.. Bryarly,
and the unfortunate man was taken to his
lodging-house on F street.
BULLION. = There was shipped from
Wells, Fargo S Co.'s Gold Hill Office. this
afternoon, IA bars and two srcks Of bull
lion, valued at S2s,ssl IS, weighing 1928
pounds.
BrLLIoN.-E Edwards & Wiegand, Gold
Hill, received this morning, for melting
and assay, s,24l ounces Of crude bullion.