Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-24
NEVADA STATE ITEMS.

foot level Of the Beleher mine, three men
were badly injured by the explosion Of a
blast. II happened as follows: 1t is
/ the usual practice in the mine to drill
I Lait-a-dozen holes at time, in which
cartridges Of giant powder are inserted
without tamping, and exploded by means
/ Of wires from al electrical battery. The
morning shift touched off blast before
they were relieved but did not notice
that one Of the cartridges bad not ex-
! ploded. The eleven O'Clock shift think
ing that the drill hole WAS not finished.
started to sink If deeper, when the cart
/ ridge exploded, the following casualties
being the result: Frank Allen badly
burnt. cut and punctured all over the
/ front portion OF his body with small frag-
ments OF rock; Harry Lindsey nose
broken, eyes c,osel up and chest bruised;
Jerry McCarty, cHt with piece OF rock
IN Il pit If has stomach. The wounded
men were attended TO by Drs. Manson
and Conn. The accident was a very IN
usual one, and the injured men say they
blame no one Tor its occurrence.
MINERs BLINDED by GAS or STEAM.-
The miners who have been working in
the D:a mine are al nearly blind and
have b II obliged to stop work on ac-
count apoisonous gas or steam now
coming IA at the end OF the west drift.
We are not Informed as to the nature of
thu poison, but presume il is either arse
NC or copper. The miners say that it is
il ue water and reaches them through
tu- steam rising from the water. 1t
Sens to ell ct tn lr heads. Their faces
are swollen to such a degree as to almost
close their eyes and at the same time
their vision Is rendered dim. 1t is said
that the water spurts into the drift in
scores Of places with the force of streams
thrown from the nozzle of hydraulic
pipe. All that can now be dt ne is to
wait till the water is drained off. We
are informed that the miners were poi
soued in the same manner n few years ago
in tunnel in the Savage mine and also
that the same thing occurred in the Yell
low Jacket. Although the miners say
that thu poison is in the water it may be
that it is ia gas which is forced out of
the rock with the water Virginia En-
terpr!se, 18th.
4 SUIT for the recovery of his fees in
the matter OF serylng papers IN behalf OF
the Kentucky Company in its suit in the
U. S. Circuit Court, mas been brought by
L. S Marshal Lammon 1t will be dis
posed Of after the manner Of an arbitra-
tion-his Honor, Judge Hillyer, acting
in the matter, not strictly i'll his judicial
capacity, but as referee. Mr.. Lammon
VIII appear in the character Of Champion
Of the Fee table, and Nj ssrs. Messick
and Seeiy will oppose themselves to him
they being the attorneys for the Ken
tncky Company. This case WAS to have
Jesn brought up yesterday; but by re-
quest of the defendants it goes over till
nrAt Monday Carson Appeal, 18th
inst.
SHOT AND hILLED.--A private dispatch
from Wadsworth states that Harvey
Nichols, ot,amster formerly in the en-
ploy of Mercer & Tucker of Gold Hill,
and % Breek & Crosby of this city, had
been Shot and Killed The dispatch was
received yesterday afternoon, but gave
no particulars Of the ARRAY, nor did 1t
state when the killing occurred. Mich
OILS, after leaving this city, bought a
!lrg team md wagons, and for some
months past has been engaged in freight
ing between MudswOrth and .-lmont
aud other POINTS south. Two of his
friends tcanstcrs of this city, went to
Wadsworth last night to look after the
effects aud affairs Of deceased Virg.
Chronicle, 10th.
\ RAILROAD SMASH Night before last
the snOw-piOw trains of locomotives on
tue Central Pacific Railroad attempted
to pass each other on single track.
near the summit Of the Sierra, and made
failure of it us usual. There were
seven locomotives behind one pillow and
SIX behind the other. Two locomotives
were smashed into shapeless mass of
ruins and another was disabled, bnt 10
one was injured. Between four and six feet
of snow fell GA and about the summit
during Thursday night and Friday, and
| 1t is now deeper on the mountains than
! it has been before since the railroad was
constructed,-[V Virginia Chronicle, 10th.
| To ARRIvE,-Sheriif Jim Hume of Ell
Dorado county, Cal, was to have arrived
at Carson this morning with the escaped
convict Sam Baker, from Corvallis, Ore
gon Hume was formerly Deputy War
den Il our state Prison, and it will be
remeIr' cred that some months ago he
caught Chfls. Blair, another escaped
conylci IN Utah, and returned him to
his old quarters after an absence of two
years. 1t seems that Blair informed
Hume, at the time of his own arrest,
where Sam Baker could be found i Vir.
! gina Chronicle, 10Th.
/ CARELESS. Two barrels of bluestone,
worth about $50 each, were placed in an
almost empty box car at Carson and
shipped for this city yesterday. Being
left lying on their sides, the barrels
| plunged around in the car until one of
them was broken open. The car door
was also smashed, and there is II streak
OF bluestone along the road from the
! Mound House to Silver City switch,
where the last of the contents of the
broken barrel disappeared - Virginia
] lpiu.
In the su rene Court, yesterday, ar
guments were heard in the case of the
People VS.. Cohen. The appellant is now
IN the State Prison, under conviction
had in the District Court for White Pine
county Of the crime of arson, having set
the fire which caused the destruction of
the town OF Hamilton L Carson Appeal,
18th.
WILL LEAVE Us.-Joseph T. Goodman,
Tor many years proprietor of the Terri
torial Enterprise, will leave this evening
for san Francisco. accompanied by his
wife. From the latter city, after short
sojourn, he will so East, and probably
join Mark Twain in writing a book, or
perhaps go to Europe Virginia Chron-
icle, 18th.
Hon II q Wurr,,,~- CL;of y,,..:..