Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-04-12
THE EVENING NEWS.
Monday Bvsni...------.Aprl rs, 1859


Monday Evcnius------Aprii rs, 1869
The Gold HIN Mining Calnmity-Rcopen-
Ing ef tho shafts To.dny-Our Fircmeu
on Hand ms NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Made
More GoinG Down Into the Depih.STSe
Hodics 70 be Rccoyered-Indicati on Of
The Fire eeins Extingui.hed-Latcst
II being finally concluded this morning to
risk areopening Of the mines, at 81 O'Clock
A. N. the steam was shut off and the covering
was removed from the surface Of the Crown
Point and KentIck shafts. The Yellow
Jacket shaft was not reopencd a, that time.
but the steam was shut of, after a steady run
Of over 72 hours, under a pressure Of ITO
to the inch, burning nearly a cord of wood
per hour. A scalding, damp vapor, mingled
with smoke and gas, came up from the Crown
Point and Ksntuck shafts, showing evidence
that the fire was most probably e~xtinguishcd.
Chief Gibson, with n large number Of our
Gold Hill fremen, was on hand, in case Of
being required, and tho Superintendent Of
the mines, with thoir assistants and men I'M
der command, were active and practical in
their operations.
rHB MOWER CONNECTED.
At IL A. NJ, the large blower tube for con-
yeying fresh air from the surface down into
the 800 and 900-foot levels OF the Yellow
Jacket mine was reconnected-it having
been disjointed in order to send steam down
through it-and the Roots patent blowing
machine was put into full operation. The
DRAFT formerly setting down this shaft and
through the mines up out Of the Crown
Point and Kentuck shafts seemed to have
subsidized. and in fact failed altogether, as far
as the Crown Point was concerned, for this
afternoon the draft is strong up the Yellow
Jacket, in a moderate degree up the Ken
tuck, while in the Crown Point there is no
draft NJ all either way, evidently showing
that the drift communication with the
Yellow jacket S00.foot level is closed BY 4
cave and the levels below obstructed by
water.
HORRORS TO III REVEALED.
Proper coffin boxes were prepared yester-
day nj the Crown Point works to receive the
bodies Of the eight victims still remaining IN
that and the Kentuck mine, and shrouds OF
white canvas were also prepared, in which
70 wrap them As soon as found. Their
decomposed state and terribly offensive con-
dition may well be imagined, afer lying,
since lact Wednesday morning, amid the
hot, reeking, poisonous atmosphere of their
living grave.
THE 'PIRsr DESCENT INTO THE CROWN
POINT SHAFT.
At noon n stream Of water was thrown
down the Crown Point shaft through n string
Of hose leading from one Of the town
MIGRANTS on Main street, in order to purify
the air as much as possible, and at o'clock
tho stream was shut of, and Chief Gibson
and Bill Lee, Of our Fire Department,
together with John Roseverc and James
Reynolds, Of the Crown Point mine, under
took the ~perilous experiment OF making the
frat descent into the shaft. They went
down to about 20 feet above the GOO-foot
level, where they suddenly came into a body
Of very foul air, in which their candles
would not burn, therefore they Immediately
and very prudcntly tang up. Shortly after
wards Rosevere, Reynolds and George
Peters, another miner, went down to the 23O-
foot station and made some necessary re-
pairs to the pump. The air was com
paratiyely good at that depth. Once or
two other descents were subsequently, made,
but not AZ far rs the FIRST, a the bad air
seemed to be rising in the SHAFT. At ID T.
". lighted candles were sent down on the
900 foot level, and the air being thus dis
covered to DO good, Mr.. Anderson, an I'M
derground foreman, with Chief Gibson and
Bill Lee went down to the 800 foot level, and
were down over half an hour exploring IN
hat and the other levels above. Shortly
after they went down, Hank Smith, fore
man Of the mine, with Charley Morrill, and
Jack Doble, went down on the cage to the
other compartment, to the 230-foot level.
TWO RoDIIs FOUND.
At the 23o-foot level Of the mine Smith and
his companions found the bodies OF X. Ryan
and John 0'Brien, abou. 70 feet north OF the