The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-04-09
THE GREAT MINING DISASTER.

We yesterday received a telegram from
Bro. Lynch of the Gold Hill News, in which
he inf med us that some twenty four bodies
had -eoGyered from the Crown Point,
Ycl ..ket and kentuck, and that they
were l., :Ig buried by the MasonS, Odd Eel
lows, Miners Union aid Emmett Guards.
The fire was fast being subdned by the brave
and sol ,scriicins tircmen of Gold Hill and
! Viz -a From last evenings News we get
the following particulars
The dead, mangied and distorted victims
of the fearful mining calamity Of Yesterday
in our Gold Hill mines, are to-day being
brought up from the fatal depths BY the ven
turesome aud brave fremen and miners.
many Of whom have not slept allowed
themselves moments rest since the fiery
ficnd took possession Of the mining depths
and of the lives of those within his deadly
reach About II o'clock last night it wa.
s.. isi TO try and get through into the
4..-r love he Crown Point mine, if pos
sible nv W. # the yellow Jacket 900 foot
level. beneath the fire. Three Of our best
and brayest Gold Hill fremen, Putnam, Lee
ard Mercer, together with Harry Aine, of
Washoe Engine Company No. 4. Virginia,
got on the cage and went down. They sue
ceeded i'll their fndeavor, and establishing
communication through the Crown Point
shaft with the surface, they sent up one
corpse after another, to the number of thir-
teen, Some of these they recovered from
the stump, or bottom Of the shaft, at the | LOO
foot level, where they had fallen from the
levels above hut the most were found in the
1000 foot level, living in all sorts of des-
pairing positions, iu~: they sunk down, I
0yerpowered. and led. under the effects OF
the foul SNAKE strangely charged with the
puneent and deadly car bonic acid gas. he
names Of those recovered At this time were
Patrick Buckley, jeremiah Shanst, John
Rom, Edward Jewell, William Jewell
(two brother>). Patrick Hogan. A. G.
Grant, a. J. Mcdonald, Peter Blonin, Thos.
Mccoy, James Bickle, Joseph Matthews,
Vim. Mitchell. Some of those who fell into
the sunp were terribly crushed and mar
led, in one or two instances the heads being
so horribly crushed and torn that they could
only be identified by their clothing, or what
was found in their pockets. !
MORE BODIES RECOVERED.
The search WIS still continued, and aoont
IL A. NJ. to-day they commenced sending up :
more bodies, some Of whics. were taken from /
the 500 foot level of the Crown T, int, by .
ventur.n5 in for a few moments at time .
among the still sitting smoke and gas. The .
bodies of Harry Stevens, Thomas Toland,
Thomas McCeliim, and man whose Il me /
we could nj ascertain, but WAS said to be a
Scotchmau newly employed in the yellow
Jacket, were thus recovered and sent to th-
surface at o'clock =. NJ, and search was still
being actively prosecuted for more.
NONE ALIVE.
It was hoped tina, some Of the unfortunate
miners might be found alive in some part Of
the lower levels, beneath where the poisonous
smoke and gas might penetrate; but alas,
no; those in the Yellow Jacket and hen-
luck had worked their way through as far as
POS i5le into the Crown Point mine, and
all were thus comparatively in the vicinity
Of each other. 1t is thought by the miners
belonging 20 those mines, who have consulted
together, that there are some few more mss
ing than are supposed and that the total
Will sum up TO nearly or quite 40.