Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-04-21
From Montana.

We learn from a Montana paper as
follows:
That tho Highland Fluming Com
pany is a successful enterprise-their
fiume situated in Alder Gulch, High
land and Paine Grove Districts, and
consists of 700 feet of fuming. The
income is 1900 day 10 each hand.
They have stupenduous range.
John Simmons received a fatal
injury near Junction by the caving
OF an embankment. He had been
stripping some ground, prepare ory
TO working it, and was at the time
OF the accident standing near the
embankment with a plank, on which
they run their whcelbarrow, be-
tween himself and safety from dam
ger. The bank was about ten feet
high. A hand at work with him,
who was also standing near, but on
the plank, observed the bank coming
down, and bounded out of danger, at
the same time crying out to Mr.. Sim
mons that the bank was falling The
latter attempted to jump over the
plank, but the earth caught him,
pressing the lower part Of his abdo>
men against the plank and nearly
covering up his head. Injuries were
inflicted upon his limbs but the sc
rious injury received was an inter-
nal one, supposed to be the bursting
or rupture of bis bladder. He lived
until yesterday morning at s O'Clock.
He was conscious to within q few
moments of his death, and believed
all the while he would get WE'LL
The evening before he died, howev>
err, he made his will and arranged
his worldly affairs in view OF possible
dissolution. Mr.. Simmons age was
fifty four years. Ho has wife and
three children in Grant County Wis.
to whom he leaves bis farm there
and his limited worldly goods in this
country About year ago Mr..
Simmons met with similar accident
in Highland district, by having a
drift to cave on him, inficting severe
injuries, from the effect of which he
had scarcely recovered when few
days ago the mishaps betell him,
which resulted in bis death.
The same paper has as follows:
David Day and Hugh Patton
were engaged at work in drift in
the gulch on a claim just below the
skating pond, between this place and
Central City, when the spiiing gave
way above them and the earth fell
between them. A portion of it
struck Mr.. Patton, hurting bis breast
and arm and forcing him towards
the mouth of the drift, while Mr..
Day is cut off, and it is thought COW
cred up. The cave occurred about
l25 feet from the mouth of the drift.
AT the hour of going to press as
many men as could work in the drift
were engaged in trying to reach the
body o.: Mr.. Day, and will DOUBTLESS
reach him before morning. 1t is be-
Iieved he is lead.
The day following some men were
trying to extricate the body of Da-
vid Day from the mass Of earth that
caved upon him in the drift of
Messrs. Blake 4 Bro, near the city,
succeeded in their efforts. When
found be was dead and in q STOPPING
position. The weight of earth had
pressed him down upon his pick, his
head coming in contact with the lat
ter, MASKING in his skull near his
left ear. Mr.. Day emigrated from
Wisconsin 10 the West as early as
SO, has been in this gulch over two
years, and been engaged in several
successful mining enterprises on the
bars opposite this city. He was q
single man, sober and Industrious,
and had many friends in the vicinity.
The Public Administrator has been
directed to take charge of his estate.