The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1884-08-16
DROWNED AND scALPED.
The Terrible Fate OF Two Eureka
Miners la the Williamsburg Mine.

Miners in the Williamsburg Mine.
A heavy rainfall at Eureka on the
7tn eau >ed AN unprecedented flow OF
water down a long cafon, in the CEN
tire OF which all incline wa. sunk
forming the entrance 10 he y illiafns-
burr niue, in which JOIN Ring and
Alex. Mcdonald were at work. The
sentinel gives the following discrip-
[ ON of the peril tho W unfortunate
miners were IN, as related by the
only survivor:
''fhe va err descending from four
t. six feet deep poured down this hole.
1t went thun iering " the incline
about l30 Il Ell; thence, coming into
The WILLIAMSBURG shaft, il fell lou feet;
thence II vent down a winze 1870 feet
at All angle oil As degrees. AL the bot
TOM of this Wine the two miners had
been worhing. Mcdonald had gone
Ia the surface to sharpen soln9 picks
and RING was at the bottom alone.
lie heard d noise like the rolling of a
ear ainl soon saw his partner APP.
proarling him with n camille in his
hand and. heard him excitim, LOOK
IA Jonn, tie wafer is coming
'sking was IN d terrible place and
he knew 1t, for the mine rad been
flooded once be ore. Had he not
moved at nnce he would have been
drowned like II rat IN "A pit. He start
ed up tie Wine, Mcdonald n few feet
anea Of hun. Thirty teet up they
passed through "A imam. hole the
water following them and o|utrunning
them, but no. Yet deep. They sarted
then IN The race for life along a drift
100 feet in length towards the Titus
snaft, their only XII To the surface.
Up To their HI, es in the Hood. their
candle, put out ny the rush of air,
they got To the end at this Drift and
elambered npa perpendicular upraise
- feet. Feeling their way aud hali
81 INNING, they then landed in an
o Z drift q feet III length which
/ they had TO trave-e in order To reach
lie THUS sadfL. Thew were ;ruagInL
along together. Mcdonald IN the lead,
tue water raising slowly hut with
nighLful certainly all the time.
'.Rins, VINO lis us the story, says
~ hen anon III .rty feet from the SHAFT,
TIC lIOOn wv IC ! ~ III. lie ndI lO~l
sighI Of his partner and he had no
tnopgut Of ever seeing the light of
day again. lie fit himself driven
"A .ong un er tie surface # water, and
nat on,y pre>ense OF mind enough to
put nj MS h4n1s AMI save his head
from the rocHsas lie ~ s driven along.
Ills breath "aS go q ami in lass than
a minute more he would have been
-uffocatei. just Thea he lelt his di-
rection changed from the horizontal
Ia the perpendicular. lie literally
shot mp tue THUS shaft, into which lie
ia been driven. like a cork from a
champagne bottle.
1.-The pressure of The confined air
and later combined propelled him
up on the surface ri The ascending
hool as safely AS though his specific
gravity had been no more than that of
an inflated bladder. When the water
reached its level. he sook hold OF tho
la iders and cl mbr,l ont ver 100 feet.
the To al depth ni the Titus shaft being
80 feet, aud When he got out ami sat
Il ,wn nn tile ground to thank tiod tor
hi safe delivery, he noticed fof the
first time that he had been scalped-
tbat the skin of hI- entire loph"ad had
heen torn from the scalp and was
banging down behind IN "A great Hap.
H. Was brought to town and mis-
wound WAS dressed by DR.. j. X. n.
owen, Who does not think the injury
fatal. Poor MrIDpnald's body is bur
led somewhere deep under the mud
and waler.h