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


Abont I o'clock this morning a fire
was discovered at the s00-foot level OF
the Yellow Jacket mine, Gold Hill, near
the Keutuck line, and in a very short
time both the Kentuck and the Crown
Point mines, which sdjoin the Yellow
J:cket on the south, and are connected
with il by drifts, were filled with q
sitting smoke from that level upward,
and how far below is at present not pre-
cisely known. The shifts were just
changing, and the day shift was partly
down. The men were hoisted out as
fast as possible, but all below the level
of the Ere were caught and are still
there, with the exception of those
who were brought up from the 800
foot level Of the Yellow Jacket mine at
noon, dead. $40
The alarm was sounded. add our
Gold Hill Fire Department were
quickly on hand with their hose, and,
rs soon as expedient, a stream was
90, down the Yellow Jacket shaft. At
first the smoke MAS very bad in this
mine, but soon II strong draft set
through it and the Kentuck into the
Crown Point, and up the shaft OF that
mine. Engines No. 1, 3 and 6, from
Virginia, also came down, and their
gallant boys rendered all the as.
sis,auce possible. The Yellow Jacket
shaft being, after II while, COM
paratively free from smoke. Mr..
kellogg, the foreman, and others
were able to pass up and down occa-
~sionally, but rome of the men, ofwhom
there were four still in the mine, could
be rescued. The smoke also subsidized
in the Kentuck shaft, so that about %
o'clock, Tom Smith, who has charge OF
the ropes, aud another man, went down
on the cage aud discovered two dead
men, who were subsequently brought
10 the surface. These were Anthony
Toy-aged about % years, and married
about q week ago at Virginia-and Pat
rick Z. Quinn, aged about 30. Both
were found Mt the TO0-foot station.
HORRIBLE INCIDENT
Three brothers, named Richard,
George and James Bickle, aged respec-
lively 80, 81 and 81 years Of age, were
working in the Crown Point mine. Not
long after the FIRE was discovered and
the deadly smoke was pouring out
through the Crown Point shaft, Richard
and George CROPPED their way to the
cage and rang the bell to come UP.
When they arrived at the surface,
George was discovered ~insensible, lean
ing over his brother and holding him
as with a death grip, which 1t was
quite difficult to d~issngnge. Richard
lad his head torn almost completely
off, and his left arm vas banging by +"
little strip Of skin to the shoulder. Ii
had doubtless become ~insensible, and
sinking down upon the cage, was
dragged against the shaft timbers nj
the sides. George still lives, but is
~iasensible and suffering from "sphyxia,
produced by the Inhalation of the ter
rible smoke, so foully charged with
deadly carbonic acid gas, The third
brother, James, was still in the mine at
last accounts. They were natives OF
Yorkshire, England.
STILL IN THg NINE.
At the l,0OO-foot level of the Crown
Point mine, quite II number OF miners
were known to be imprisoned, and,
being below the level OF the fire and
smoke, it was hoped they might escape,
~especially as the blower OF the nine was
kept in operation supplying fresh air to
that Lowell. Therefore, ut IL A. ", u
cage was sent down with II lighted ban
tern upon it and u small box with can
dies and the following dispatch in it,
written on a large piece of pasteboard,
by the Superintendent, J. Z. Jones:
We are fas, subduing the FIRE. 1t Is death
to attempt to come up from where you are.
w. will Oct 10 YOU soon. The gas in the
shaft, is terrible, and produces sure and speedy
death. Write a word to us, and send 1t up
on the cage, and let US know how you are.
Alas 4! to this dispatch there was no
reply the cage came up rs 1t went
down.
MORE HopIEs RECOVERED.
About noon, some of the firemeu went
down the Yellow Jacket SHAFT on the
cage, to the 90O.foot level, aud succeed
ed in bringing out the body of a man
whose nam we did not ascertain. lie
had been working in the miuebn n day
or two; and was a comparative stranger.
At another trip they brought ont the
body OF Joseph Mcclellan, aud made n
third trip, when, after searching through
all the drifts at that level for some Il
minutes, they succeeded in finding and
bringing to the surface one more body
that Of John Hogan. They went down
AGAIN, aud made a still more thorough
search, but unsuccessfully, although
another body, that of Jeremiah Chenet'e
was still u~nrecovered.
MISSING AND EAT
On calling tho roll of the Crow
Point miners and comparing notes, =
were found TO be missing, and mos
probably dead in the mine. The ioi
lowing is a list OF their names T: MiehaC
Mccormick, Peter Blouin, Patrls!
Buckley, James Bickle, George I'D
monds, A. G.. Grant, Edward jewell
VIM Jewell, Jonathan Jones, Thomn
Laity, VIM. Mitchell, Joseph Matthews
Archie McDougall, Thos. MeCntiin
Thos. Mccoy, Daniel ONeil,J. oBr,e"
James Peters, a. Reinay, X. Ryan, Geo
Tompkins, John Rowen, Thos. TolAnt
The names Of the four still missing u
the Kentuck mine are Patrick Hogan
Martin Cloouey, Harry Stevens, josef
Glasseu. In the Yellow Jacket, as W
have before stated, jeremiah Chenette |
still missing. Add to these % m'ssin
the sir bodies recovered, and the fear
full list SUM up to 3i-probably a
dead, although there is a bare poss'6,'
ity that some may yet be alive in tn
lower depths of the Crown Point mine
IN CONCLUSION
We would remark that this is by tar u
most appalling, terrible and h'ta
calamity which has ever happened u
the mines Of the Comstock ledge, an
not only falls like black clouds of terro
over the whole community, but 1t cal
ries deep sorrow and distress into til