Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-05
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Yesterday morning, says the Enter
prise of the I'd, Harry Norton, associate
editor of the Lyon County Times, OF
Silver City, had a bit of Centennial ex-
%perience which he will not care to have
repeated should he live to the year
1875. He and others, three buggies in
all, were returning from a masquerade
tall, given the previous night at Day
ton, at about 1880 O'Clock in the morn
ing. There had been some racing
among those occupying the three bug
gies. As they approached Silver City
the buggy occupied by a Mr.. Lester
and wife were ahead and that in which
Mr.. Norten and wife, James Peters and
Miss Shay was second. All were driv-
ing rapidly. When near the bridge
crossing Gold Canyon, at the junction
of the DAYTON and Carson City roads.
Mr.. Lester held in his team and Mr..
Norton whirled past him. He WAS go
ing at a very rapid pace, and just at the
end of the bridge one of the wheels OF
his rockaway struck a large bOwlder.
Mr.. Norton was thrown from the We.
h,cle and landed in the bottom Of the
canyon, ten feet below on his face;
Mrs. Norton MAS also pitched into the
CANYON and fell about ten ieet further
along than where her husband lay;
Mr.. Peters also Tell in the canyon.
while Miss Shay chung to the vehicle
until it was overturned, a short dis
lance beyond the bridge. Mr.. Norton
WAS taken up in an inSensible condi-
lion, and did not recover his conscious
ness for about half an hour. He was
considerably bruised, but had no bones
broken. The bottom of the canyon
was filled with tailings from the mills,
and these formed a smooth though
very solid bed on which the parties
fell. There was a considerable depth
Of water in the bed of the canyon.
which also served to save those pitched
from the carriage. Mr.. Norton, being
inSensible, would have drowned had
he not been promptly brought ashore
by the parties in the other buggies.
Mrs. Norton was somewhat bruised,
but not seriously 50; Peters had one
arm slightly injured, and Miss Shay
escaped with a cut in the temple about
All inch in length. The wounded were
taken to the Golden Age Hotel, near al
hand, where they received such atten-
ton as the nature of their hurts de
manded. Although the runaway team
WAS stopped a short distance beyond
INV DIiiSVy tt0 Runaway was llcitN
badly wrecked. The reports of the &C
cident wi ich first reached this city
slaughtered nearly all those who were
in the carriage driven by Mr.. Norton,
Glenn Lee, the notorious stage rObber
who wa pardoned out of the Nevada
Sac Prison about we years ago, wa,
arrested at Buckley's Vaiities in Sar
Francisco IN Friday night, on a war.
rant charming him with house-breakine
in Napa county. The lively knight o
the road carried himself %jauntilv under
the circumstances, ami appeared chiefly
concerned lest his gorgeous appare
should be soiled by contact with lesSel
criminals. Tomorrow he will leave
for Napa, accompanied by a member
OF the " star troupe"
w. NJ. Thornton has been appointed
Secretary pro tenn. of the Virginia anc
Truckee Railroad Company to fill thu
vacancy caused 10y the resignation o
George A. King will take charge of thu
Virginia branch of the Nevada Banl
(parent bank in San Francisco which
will be opened in Virginia in ten Oh fit
teep days. at the corner of e and Tay
Tor streets, just opposite the Bank O
California.