Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-04-13

fonnd 10 be stiil BurnlnE-The Firenirn
and Miner Driven out by tho smoke
s ss..e SH Sss ans Rls pars Si. OF 81 sss me si si,.
uation.
About 8 o'clock P. ". yesterday, the bodies
Of X. Ryan and John OBricn were brought
up from the 23o-foot level, and not long after
wards Nick Andrews and four others who
had penetrated through the Crown Point
mine to the Kentsek shafs, found the body Of
Joseph Glassen lying in the bottom of the
shaft, at the 700-foot lcvel. They drew it
back into the drift, and not long aftcrward
Chief Gibson. Of our fire department, and
Mr.. Kellogg, Foreman Of the Kcntuck, went
down that shaft on a cage to the 700-foot
level. They passed through the east drift
into the breast, finding where the FIRE had
passed through from the Yellow Jacket into
the Grown Point mine, and after they came
up, other parties went down and brought up
the body OF Giassen.
FIRE
Andrews and party discovered some Of the
timbering uf the Kentuck mine still burn.
ing, but procuring q few buckets OF water
they soon put it out. Still more fire was
subsequently discovered in the same yicin-
ity, burning between the 200. and S00-foot
levels, and Chief Gibson sent 4 message to
Monumental Engine Co. No. G, on the Di-
vide, for their hose. In response, several Of
the boys promptly ran down with their
jumper, and about Z o'clock the hose was
led DOWN the Crown Point shaft, and in to
where the fire was, and a stream Of water
was turned on. Several iremcn and miners
worked down there for some time trying to
~extinguish the FIRE, but to no purpose, as
now that the shafts were open once more and
n fresh supply Of air circulating below, the
flames broke forth with renewed energy. and
the smoke, gas and heat thus generated soon
drove the boys back.
RHcLoSrSG OF THE HATS.
When it was found that there was still fire
in the mines, about 1 I. N. the yellow
Jacket blower was stopped, and 1t was
deemed advisable to close the shafts again in
order to stop the draft and then If the fire.
mon could not put out the fire, tho stcaming
process would again be resor'ed to. Accord.
ingly by 7 o'clock =. NJ, the Yellow Jacket
an dEsntuck shafts were once more closed
tightly as before, and the steam pipes con-
nected from the boilers to the shafts again.
A large lot Of galvanized iron seven inch
tubing, was sent down the Crown Point mine
in order to connect it with the blower tube
in the shaft, and thus send n body OF steam
through directly to the FIRE or as near it as
possible. Considerable difficulty was expe-
ricnced in making this connection, and the
smoke and increasing gas drove out the hrc-
men and miners, it was only by fresh parties
going down and working pretty lively that
the hose.vas recovered, At 10! o'clock, the
men, hose, cages and all were at the surface,
and the workmen commenced closing the
shaf. Two hours aftcrward all was closed
ss-AkIw al .kwapv ynlnn0a nf sfaapa VrrP0
sent pouring down al, three Of the shafts.
FAILED TO CONNECT.
The last descent into the mine was made
BY J. p. Jones, Superintendent Of the Crown
Point, who was particularly energetic and
practical during the exciting scenes OF the
afternoon, and like Chief Gibson, Kellogg
and Hank Smith, did not wish TO send any
man where he was afraid to go himself. He
was down and up the shaft several times
during The evening, but the last time he went
down in company with a young miner to see
IL they could not succeed in connecting the
long six-inch tube before mentioned with the
blower-tube in the shaft. They were down
about fifteen minutes, and then came up,
driven out by the foul air, having been una
BILE to make the connection. Both were more
or less affected by the gas, the young man
especially, and rs their candles would burn
no longer, hadithey not como out as they did
they would soon have been in total, and per-
haps eternal darkness.
THE FIRR AMI ITS DAMAGES.
Gibson and Kellogg, rs well as the Nick
Andrews party, passed through to the west
wall of the Kentuck mine. at the 200. foot
level, n distance Of about go feet east Of the
Ksntuck shaft and 1870 from the Crown Point.
They found the timbcring burned out and the
mine considerably caycd at this point. Be-
tween there and the S00-foot level is where
the main body Of the fire is at. present. The
heavy timbers Of the long drift through which
they passed are all charred to n depth OF two or
three inches, and show full evidence OF the
flaming scourgc which recently swept through
il. Where the drift branches of to the Crown
Point shaft the FIRE had followed through,
burning out the station timbcrs, so that all
overhead had cayed in, nearly TO the SHAFT.
Andrews and his party had passed in through
a side drift TO the left, and into the main
Kentuck drift. The fire had even scorched
the timbers where the station opens directly
into the Crown Point shaft. There seemed
to have been but little fire at the GOO-foot
level, neither were the bodies OF the four
miners known to have been there last We'd
nesday morning found, they having probably
tried to escape through some other part OF the
mine. Nothing is known OF the damage IN
the Yellow Jacket mine, as no ono passed
through into it.
A~sPuYNtATHD.
During the closing Of the shafts las. even.
ing, and the last operation in the depths OF
the Crown Point mine, several men were
made very sick from asphyxia, produced by
inhaling the poisonous smoke and gas; Dan
Coughlin and John Cosgroyc. at the yellow
Jacket, Bob Redding and John Biggs, at the
Kentuck, John James, Frank - and two
or three others at the Crown Point were thus
asphyxiated, some Of them being rendered
quits inscnsiblc. Fresh air, cold water and
vomiting soon revived them, however. We
noticed DR.. Hall quite active and efficient in
attending these sick men.
FUNERALS.
The funeral Of k.,Rysn and John OBricn
takes place this afternoon under the auspices
of the Miners Union, OF which they were
members. Joseph Glassen will also be
buried this afternoon from the Odd Fellows
Hall BY wildcy Lodge No. l, OF which he
was n member.
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