The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-04-16
Great Calamity in The Nevada
Mines.
THIRTy-sIx PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH-EIGH-
TEEN BODIES TAKEN FROM THE MINES.

San Francisco. April IA fire broke out
this morning, in the yellow jacket Mine,
at Gold Hill, Nevada, which soon commune
Gated with the Kentuck and Crown Point
Mines. Thus far Il p. m) clever bodies
have been taken from the shafts of three
mines. Other bodies can be seen at the bot
tom of the Kentuck shaft, but it is impos-
sible to remove them on account Of the heat.
| 1t is uncertain how many persons there were
in the mines. The excitement and confusion
were so great that it was impossible to call
the roll of those at work. Sixty men were
at work in the two levels of the Crown Point
mine. 1t is not known how many escaped.
The distress is fearful The wives and chidl-
ren OF the miners have congregated at the
entrance of the mines, and are calling for
their missing husbands and fathers.
Eight O'clock, Evening. latest re-
ports, from Gold II state that the number
known to be dead is 36-fve in the Yellow
JACKET, eight in the Kentuck, and % in the
Crown Point Nine. The fire originated in
the Kentuck Mine, and is reported now to
be spreading toward the yellow JACKET shaft.
Tue firemen have succeeded in getting hose
down the Yellow Jacket shaft to the level
of the fire, and hopes are entertained that
the flames will soon be subdued. If not,
when all expectations of saving more lives
are abandoned, the mouth of the shaft will
be closed and ventilation stopped, and the
FIRE thereby smothered. The Yellow jacket,
Crown Point, and Kentuck Mines are uncon-
nected with other mines underground; hence
there is no probability of the fires extending
beyond them.
Virginia City is almost deserted, the
people having gone to the sceLe of the dis
ast"r to render assistai ce. The San Fran
cisco Stock Exchange Board have subscribed
81 600, and sent the money by telegraph to
Gold Hill for the relief of the families suffer
ing by the conhagration. This catastrophe
is the most terrible that has ever occurred
in the mining districts of this coast. There
is general sympathy expressed for tho dis
tressed.
San Francisco, april 8.-The coLfagra-
tion at the Gold Hill Mines is still raging.
1t appears to be confired principally to the
Yellow jacket drift, owing to the care which
has been taken to prevent its spreading.-
The fremen are unable to reach the hamrg,
but efforts are being made to clear the drift,
which will probably occupy all day. Eigh-
teen bodies have been taken Fl ON the burning
mines-nine of them from one drift The
Yellow jacket Company have rescnded the
dividend for March. The fire has had the
effect to render the stocks of the Yellow
jacket, Grown Point, the kentuck panicky,
and transactions iu them are ut reduced
values.
LATEST.
Later advices from Gold Hill are to the
effect that the fire has been fairly subdued,
and the victims are being removed from the
different shafts. Seventeen men are yet miss
ing. and are supposed to have perished in the
flames. The total number Of lives destroyed
IS 30. 1t is impossible to estimate the dam
ages TO property.
The Superintendents of the Crown Point
and Kentuck Mines report them uniuiured.
The stock of the Yellow jacket Company
has declined to $40 per share; the Crown
Point to So, and the Kentuck to$l4