Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15

CoNMENDABLE LIBERALITY.-The San
Francisco Stock and Exchange Board
last evening telegraphed $1,000 to ".
D. G. Gibson Of Gold Hill, for The bene.
Ct Of the sufferers by the disaster Of yes.
terday. AT noon to-day =. Cahill, OF
Cahiil l. Co., brokers, Virginia, also
similarly sent $500 from San Fran
cisco for the same purpose as his swn
private subscription. N. A. H. Ball
also telegraphs to Postmaster Chubbuck
of Gold Hill to!day that he thinks $l0,-
900 can be collected in that city.
FArHERLrss FAxILlEs.-Eleven of the
men who we're Killed yesterday by the
calamity in our mines, were married.
RgcESrLY MARRIED.-0ne of the men
who was killed in the mines yesterday
had been married only ten days.
From the Gold Hill News of April 81
The yGreat Gold Hill Mining Calamity
Tho Fire and Smoke on the Incrense-
yellow JackeI. Kentuck aud Crown
Point Shafts Closed rs a Lust Resort-
Ne Nv, MS FROM HSs. Scene cS sse Sa.a.Isr.
At an carly hour this morning a great
increase of smoke was observable CON-
ing through the Grown Point shaft, and
by Z o'clock the engineers, brakesmen
and all hands were compelled to stop
the machinery and leave the building,
thick clouds of smoke rolling out
through the v~entilators in the roof and
from all the windows and doors. The
fire WAS evidently OF the increase, judg-
ing from this smoke, and knowing by
this time that il was utterly impossible
for the eight or ten men still remaining
in the mine, md known to be in the
upper levels, to be yet alive, it was re-
solved to adopt the Inst resort and
smother out che fire.
THE CLOSING OF II SHAFTS.
In pursuance Of this plan, ut IL A. N.
were taken to close each. one
of the shafts with planks, wet cloth,
earth, etc., so as to exclude all fresh
mir or draft from above, and then by
sending bodies of steam down each
shut it was thought the fire might be
s~mothered and extinguished. The
Grown Point shaft was closed near the
top, at the carpenter shop floor level,
and the Kentuck some ten or twelve
feet below the top, beneath the switch
floor, where it could be made the most
e~ffectually air tight. The Yellow
Jacket shaft was closed Mt the point
where the Gold Hill drain tunnel con-
meets with it, l20 feet below the sur
face. s.a..n.al hH" 81 ..". '.. 'ai l
L STEAM TuRNED on. aa aaa
About IL o'clock, by Of heavy
iron piping connected with the boilers,
a strong volume Of steam WAS sent
down the Yellow Jacket through the
pipe of the blower, conducting it
down into the 800 and 900 foot levels OF
tho mine, and from there it would 60
wherever it could best find cgress into
parts of the mine.
NO nor BODIES REcovERBD.u Do. a
No more bodies OF the unfortunate
have been recovered since the
last We recorded in yesterdays Issue, rs
the eight or ten still believed to be in
the mine are at the upper levels and
cannot he got at. It will probably be
somo days now before they can be re-
covered.
sFH EXCITEMENT. Gaa &c. Sd|
With the increase Of the smoke and
there is n corresponding increase OF
tho public excltemen., and large crowds
are about the hosting works OF the
three mines, and men nre hurrying to
and fro up and down the streets, eager
to get the latest intelligence.
THE FIRE.
Il is we'll known that the fire has not
extended nOrthwnrd toward the Yellow
JACKET shaft, nor is it below the 500
foot Lowell, Init II has extended above
toward the 7O0-foot level. The iremen
and miners have been close to it on the
north, and above it on the 7O0-ioot
level, but no live soul has yet been at
the south of it, by reason of the DRAFT
carrying the smoke and gas in that
direction, therefore the true extent OF
the burning space is not precisely
known.
No. C~ORoNRR's INQUEST.
Coroner Symonds owing to the con:
tinued excitement and recovering OF
the bodies WINS unable to hold any in
quest until to-day. He has three differ
ent juries im%panneled, and will be
busily occupied for the next day or two.
FUNERALS.
Michael Mccormick was buried at
Virginia ut 10 A. N. today, under the
auspices of Mount Davidson Lodge, /.
O.. o. F. George Tompkins was
buried at noon, from st. Mary's
Church, ut Virginia. The funeral
o fGeorgc Bickle took place from Odd Eel
lows Hall, Gold Hill, ut . p. NJ, and
was largely attended by both Odd Eel.
lows and Masons, he hcing n. member OF
Wildey Lodge No. /, |. o. o. F., and Of
Silver Star Lodge No. s, +. anil A. NJ.
Thomas Toland was buried from The.
ater Hall, Gold Hill, at Ii 4. NJ, by the
Miners Union, Of which lie was n mem
Der. The remains Of Patrick Buckley
will be forwarded to Grass Valley, Cali