Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-07-13

the Yellow Jacket mine ; | was In the
T3o.foot station at the time Of the acci-
den, :. there was a load Of timbers sent
down. three men got on board Of the
caoe afterward to 60 up /; q minute or
40 afterward l heard an awful racket in
the shaft; the cage fell down to
the 9Th station and | saw u a falling
after it, followed by q stick Of timber /;
saw nothing more of it l don't know
what broke the rope, unless the cage
caught against the timber which fell ; l
received the load of timber which came
down /; there were seven pieces Of lag.
ging aud two eight foot l2-inch square
timbers the rope securing the timbers
was not broke, but was slack enough to
allow a stick of timber to slip out.
John Curran, sworn-I reside in Gold
Hill /; am a miner at the upper works of
Yellow Jacket Company; have seen Mr..
Campbell, but not much acquainted with
him ; one of the deceased was my sou,
Barnet Curran, about II years Of age ;
he was born in Elmira, Chemung county.
New York; did not know the other
young man.
Wm. Desmond, sworn-Reside in Gold
Hill; know the parties deceased (; Mr..
Griffin was born in the county Of Cork,
Ireland his age was about 10 years +;
know nothing about the accident.
George Sampson, sworn-Reside in
Gold Hill I'm a miner; was within .
or 6 feet of the cage when it went to the
bottom Of the shaft have known Mr..
Campbell, deceased, about IL months ;
do not know where he was born or how
old he vas ; l was ut work at the bot
tom, cutting out for u new section,
within six feet Of where the cage struck;
thought from the racket that q car load
Of rock was falling ; after it had fallen
I saw that it was the cage, with the ca
BILE coiled upon il; it was followed by a
stick of timber about two seconds after;
while we were looking at this cage two
or three men came down the other COM
partment of the shaft, and said some
men had fallen with that cage James
O'Dounel gave orders to clear away the
rope and get the bodies up we did so,
and | went down into the stump and
helped get the three bodies up the
timber which fell was IL inches square,
aud about 8 feet long; l think the tim
Der could have slipped out through the
opt which secured it on the cage do
not know at what speed the timber cage
was going =; I think the lower end Of the
timber could have worked over the edge
Of the cage so rs to catch against the
side Of the shaft, and thus get off the
cage altogether.
G. II. Mallard, sworn-Reside in Vir-
GINA have known Mr.. Campbell, de-
ceased, between l6 and II years his
name was John Campbell (; he was near
40 years OF age he came around Cape
Horn from Boston, in lS49, in the ship
Areatus !; he had no family be was n
cabinet maker by trade, but always
worked at mining in this country he
was born in New Hampshire (; he has no
relatives on this coast, that I'm aware
Of; know nothing Of the cause of this
accident, except what | have heard.
Timothy Griffin, sworn-l reside in
Virginia | knew Mr.. Griffin, deceased
his name was jus. Griffin ; have known
him l6 or II years +; his age was 10
he was born in the county of Cork, Ire
land I; | am his first cousin; know
nothing of the Of this accident,
except what | have heard.
VIM. White, ~sworn-Reside in Gold
Hill ; l take charge Of all the ropes
about the hosting works | was ut the
works at the time Of the accident of this
morning was about ten feet from the
shaft / examined the rope which
broke, this morning I; | did so by letting
the cage run down the shaft, before the
men went down on il found it in good,
safe condition ; noticed the cage and
saw it was also in good order the cage
went down with a load Of timber, and
FIVE minutes afterward started up again,
when the accident occurred; noticed
nothing unusual when the cage was
going down +; cage always goes down
slower with timbers than with passen-
gers !; there was nothing unusual in the
speed Of the cage /; the rope used was
put on in May ; l think the timbers
were properly secured on the cage
they could have worked out at the bot
tom so that the end Of u could catch
on the timbers at the side Of the shaft,
and so get raised out and left behind by
the cage. =.
The verdict of the jury was to the Ell
feet that the deceased came to their
death by being precipitated down the
south shaft Of the Yellow Jacket mine,
through the accidental breaking Of the
rope in said shaft"