Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-06-04
PACIFIC COAST ADVICES.
SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
The Imprisoned Miners Rescued
How They Endured heir Con-.
finement-The Ingenuity of Jack
Van Duzen

Van Duzen.
VIRGINIA New, June "A man named
Pike. Of Union shaft, by wearing a he'll
met, has penetrated to the end of the Alta
drift. He found the seven men all right,
sitting in the c~ooling-off house, 200 feet
from the end of the drift. The only lives
lost are those Of two men who went in
with the boat this morning.
VIRGINIA New, June 3.-The man who
penetrated the drift to the imprisoned
miners was Jack Van Duzen. He had on
an apparatus consisting of a box contain
ing pounded ice, which rested on his back,
and from which was a rubber pipe leading
to a mask which covered his face, the air
passing through the ice to the mask. He
found the seven men all right, though
weak. They were in the cooling room,
about 100 feet from the face Of the drift.
They had broken the compressed air pipe
with a pick and turned the end into
the cooling house. When their ice
water gave out they poured hot
water from the drift into the barrel
then twisted the end of the compressed air
pipe down into the barrel and let it ex-
haust in the water, thus cooling it, while
they stood about the barrel breathing the
air that came up through the water. When
they found Van Duzen had ice in the box
on his back, they pulled open the slide
and began eating Jumps of ice. One of
them told the others that they must not
eat the ice, as Van Duzen had yet to go
out. But they had devoured the greater
part of it and it was the lack of Ice that
caused Van Duzen to faint in going out,
there being a belt Of foul air some 800 feet
wide to pass through. Van Duzen told
the men he would inform their families of
their safety, and assured them that all
possible eXertion was being made to get
them out. They had a light and seemed Of
good cheer. AT first this story was
thought to be a delirious fancy of Van Du-
zen, but tonight six men penetrated the
cooling-room, carrying IN ice and water,
also some milk punch. The physicians
had thought that the men should have
nourishment before any attempt was made
to bring them to the surface. The six
men who vent in were in a worse copdi-
ton when they arrived at the COOLING
house than those they found there. The
latter tried to persuade the six new arri-
walls not to attempt to go back, but they
thought it necessary in order to reassure
those outside. The imprisoned men said
they saw lights out in the drift this morn
ing, and asked who had tried to
come to them. These we're the
lights of Bennett and Callahan,
the two men who lost their lives about 8
O'Clock. They got the bodies of these two
out. One shift could only endure foul air
long enough to carry a body half way,
then another shift went in and brought it
the remainder of the way. One body was
found AGO feet from the shaft and the other
500. At this time they have got the large
air pipe repaired so it carries air back to
the end of the drift, and they hope to be
able to bring the seven men out in two or
three hours. They have sent to Superin-
tendent Mckenzie for a fresh gang of men,
all at the mine being exhausted. The
water, at last accounts, was four feet on
the station, it having risen a foot on ac-
count OF taking off one tank, which was
done for the purpose Of putting on the
cage.
VIRGINIA, June 3.-About midnight all
the men in the Alta were removed from
the drift. Whistles all along the lode are
squealing in honor OF the event. The
bodies Of Bennett and Callahan, who per-
ished in attempting to rescue the men by
the boat, have been recovered.
Opium CONFERENCE.-The Apaches
to be Disarmed.
San FRANCISCO, June 3.-Judge HoF-
man, United States District Court, rem
dered a decision this afternoon condemn
ing a ton Of opium seized by the officers
in the harbor on the Sd of January last.
A Tucson D~ispatch-Star special from
Fort Thomas says: Orders have been dis
patched to all attachments of troops in
the field to concentrate at once at San
Carlos, as trouble is anticipated. It is
stated on good authority that orders for
dissrming the Indians have been received
at the agency, which causes the antioipat.
ed trouble. The forces on Ash Greek have
been increased by four companies. This
Is the pass the Indians generally 20
through when leaving the reservation.
Death of Miss Crockett.
SAN Francisco, June 3.-Miss Clara.
daughter of ex-Supreme Judge Crockett,
was found dead in the attic room of her
brothers house, with a handkerchief
saturated with chloroform over her face,
1t Is supposed to nave been accidental, as
she had been in the habit Of using the
drug to deaden the pain of a disease with
which she was afflicted.