Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-06-22

roborased-rhe Isqasss Nos Yss
Concluded.
Coroner Brodsk last evening oom-
mencsd his inquest upon the bodies OF
those killed by the accident at the Vel.
low Jacket shaft Last Friday. he
explained that. the bodies being in two
different places, two juriss bad been
summoned. n from Virginia for the
inquest upon Hannibal Williams. the
other from Gold Hill for the inquest on
Gallagher. Tsmby. wilkins and Whit
comb. The juriss would render sspa.
rate vsrdiots.
Captain T. G. Taylor. supsrintsnd-
emit. testified concerning the shaft, It's
three compartments. the double cage in
tho south compartment carrying two
cars side by side and . tank for water
underneath. In the next compartment
north Is the skip which goes to the bot
tom. The double cage Ii used to hoist
rock and water from the $500 level.
safstiss arc used on both. A station
tender is employed to see that the cages
are properly loaded and everything on
them secured properly. His instructions
.r. Of q general nature and to DO very
careful and see that everything Is
securely dashed. The Jars are fastened
TO the cages by hooks when passing up
and down on the cages. After the acct.
dent fragments Of Q car truck and drills
we're found In the bottom OF the shalt.
The body Of the car was on the cage.
The drills were loaded in the car and
were being hoistsd. There were % drills
in the car at the time OF the accident.
The short drills were in the body OF the
car aud the long ones were lashsd to the
standards. There was nothing except
drills in the car. Dennis Hurley loaded
the car. He has been in the employ OF
the company q number OF years and Is
considered . very careful man. When
placed on the cage the car is on q track.
There is q notice in the works 81 to men
riding on the skip. Following Is the
notice:
NorIcE-An employees Of the Yellow
Jacket Silver Mining Company are
hereby notified that an iron. bonneted
safsty.cags Is provided for lowering and
hosting them, and each Of them, down
and up the shaft; and any employe
entering, ascending or descending such
shaft by any other means Of conveyance
does 80 at his own risk.
Gold Hill, New, - IL
This notice was posted when witness
went TO the mine on February last. 1t
10 directly in front Of the skip compart.
ment Of the shaft on q beam where oil
can see II. Some OF the men killed have
been in the employ Of the company q
number Of years. There is no bonnet
to the skip. None Of the skips in use
on the Comstock, 30 far as witness
knows, have bonnets. Have never con.
sidered Il unsafe for men to 60 up and
down on the skip; cages were nj for
many years without bonnets; men can
climb from the $500 to the bottom II
they prefer il to using the skip; do not
think there are ladders all the way; there
are platforms over the north and south
compartments at the $500 level to pro-
tect tho uorkmsn in the shaft below;
the accident could not have occurred
through anything done or omitted on the
surface.
Henry Temby. brother Of the de-
ceased Alfred Tsmby, besides testifyins
10 the age and nativity Of said deceased,
as already published. said deceased had
been fifteen years Q miner and had been
EMPLOYED at the Yellow Jacket the last
time but seventeen or eighteen days.
John wilkins, brother OF the deceased
Timothy wilkins. gave similar tssti.
mopy as to said deceased; he had been
twenty-five years o miner and for two
and q half years ct the Jacket.
Nicholas Williams. who has been en-
pinser at the Yellow Jacket since the
present shaft was started and who was
brother Of the deceased Hannibal Viii.
liams, had not heard any complaints OF
carslessness on the part Of the employees
Of the company. Said deceased was
forty.seven years OF age. q native OF
Cornwall, England, whore he left q wife,
seven daughters and one son. Witness
had never known q shaft sunk to q great
depth where 90 few accidents had oc-
Cured as ut the Yellow Jacket.
The Coroner then read the testimony
Of Mrs. whitcomb. mother OF deceased
Elwood whitcomb. a. to his nativity,
AGE, etc., and like testimony Of Mrs.
Neil Gallagher - to his age. etc.. all OF
which has already been published.
DIR. Hall testified a. to the causes Of
death Of the men killed, and described
their injuries. his testimony correspond.
ing with the accounts already published.
DR.. Manson corroborated the testi.
mony Of DR.. Hall.
Denis Hurley. station tender on the
27OO and $500 levels, testified that bis
duties were to see that whatever came
out, such as dirt, was sent up, keep
account Of 1t and mark II down, and
when anything went up TO secure 1t on
the cage properly was "otAiuB ~ soo
time OF this accident; went on at z
O'Clock In the morning; went down on
the cage to the $500; at the change OF
shift went up to the 270o; when hs went
down noticed nothing unusual In the
shait-no tight place for the cage; took
the load which occssioned the accident
from the $500 level; had sent up rock
and water before; nothing else; have
never seen any rock fall of the car and
down the shaft or lodge on the wall.
plates, have beard Of III put drills on
the cage in the body Of the car; there
were twenty-five OF them; ten or twelve
long Q stood up; the short ones lay
in the bottom OF the car; took the long.
eat Of the long drills and placed them
from the door Of the car against the
eccentric bar OF tho cage standing up
and stood up all the long drills . BY
one; took q lashing rope and saw that Il
was too short; put that back and got a
longer one; dashed the drills as usual;
took a half hitch at the end OF the rope
ana broucht the rope back and took Q