Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-04-09
a ~FERRrBLE FATE.

Miner. while ON his way Hom,e
Becomes Bewirdered and Loss fn
n Deep SNOW ne wanders
About for .Thirsy-stx Hsurs
Found fn q state OF Utter Ex-
haustfon He 20 Rescued, hut
Dies from Ex posure.
About seven months ago we an
nounced the joyous meeting Of a
happy couple after q separation over
q period Of % years, and four months
later the arrival here Of their son.
Since then no home could have been
more cheerful than that Of the re.
united members Of the family, which,
by the sad fate Of the husband and
father has been cast into mourning
and gloom. A week ago Thursday
morning w. J. Crabb, q miner, who
has for the past four years been en-
ployed at the Lord Byron and Dunder-
berg mines, left his home at the
Dunderberg for Eureka and Ruby
Hill to transact some business that re-
quired his attention. The road was
then filed with soft snow TO the depth
Of two or three feet, and Mrs. Crabb,
who is a bright. smiable and thought
full woman, advised her husband not
to undertake the trip, and ven after
he had started, but before he was
many yards from the house, begged
him TO return. He replied that he
could get through all right, and ar
rived safely in town. Later on In the
day he went to Ruby Hill, and after
t~ransacting his business spent q few
hours there with some friends. In
the evening, against the solicitation OF
his friends, he started for home. He
stopped at Jake Keutchel's butcher
shop for some meat, which was put
into a sack and slung yer his shoulder
in such a manner that he could not
drop it. Keutchel and others urgently
advised him not to venture over the
mountains, as he would have to take
desperate chances through heavy
snow drifts. He replied that his wife
would be anxious about him and he
would not remain away from home
over night for twenty dollars. Poor
Crabb could not have realized the
difficulty Of his intended undertaking,
but went out to meet the tragic and
dreadful fate which subsequently be-
fel him. Circumstances show that
after he climbed up over the hill
southwesterly from the Jackson mine
he get into deep snow and became be-
wildered. Tom Bryant, of Ruby Hill,
while on his way to the Dunderberg
mine early on the following morn
ing, saw q man working his
way through the snow along
the Ruby Hill water pipe line,
the divide Of the hills between the
Kemp & Keen shaft and the Goodwin
Canyon road, about q quarter of a
mile distant from the Dunderberg trail.
He thought the man was either look
ing after the water pipes or prospect
ing. Bryant mentioned the circum-
to his partner at the Dunder-
berg mine, but neither OF them knew
at that time that Crabb had been at
Ruby Hill. Bryant, while returning
to Ruby Hill after his days work again
saw the man, who was then about a
hundred yards below and east of the
Kemp Il Keen shaft, making his way
up hill toward the trail. He spoke to
q friend in the evening OF having seen
the man, but there was no suspicion
Of a human being in o state Of be-
wilderment struggling to reach O place
Of safety. II it was William Crabb
that Bryant saw, there was reason to
believe, as he was going towards the
Dunderberg trail that he had found
his way home. Mrs. Crabb and her
were not surprised that he did not
on Thursday evening, they be-
that he had stopped over night
with friends at Ruby Hill. They
he would be home during the
following day, and when Friday night
came they were anxious but not
alarmed.
On Saturday morning John Berry
man, VIM. j. Tregonning and some
other men, who were just going to
work at the Jackson mine, heard a cry
"a hl5ttCSb lEOLl . AlAH WAiACh SuLiC
the direction Of the bluff Of rocks
about 800 yards south of the Satellite
shaft, or what is nov used o q well.
With John Venton, Tom Williams,
James Jury and John Hancock, made
up q party to 60 in search Of Crabb.
They broke a trail and reached the i'll
lated man, whom they found chilled
and exhausted, and who, alter the
first joyous geeting, relapsed with
spells into q state Of utter
prostration. The rescuers immedi-
ately broke q trail to the Continental
shaft, where they met j. H. Tingley
and VIM. Giles, who assisted them
the Continental divide. Ire
went along in advance Of the
party to procure more help. Alex.
Fraser was notified, and he immedi-
ately ordered the men out Of the mine, |
and all hands assisted In taking the
dying man to his home, where he re-
all the care and attention that
i was possible for his loving relatives
and kind friends to bestow, but dis.
solution was rapidly approaching, and
1t 10 minutes after IL O'Clock on
Saturday night, after great suffering
he passed quietly away. It was a
great consolation to the breaved wife
and son that the poor man was con-
scious and showed satisfaction and
happiness in his dying hours at being
home and tenderly cared for.
Owing to the great depth OF snow
il appeared impossible to reach the
Dunderberg mine with q team, 80 a
sled was made at the Dunderberg
hosting works, and last Monday |
morning the body was carefully wrap
ped and secured to it, q fresh trail was
broken, and in this way the remains |
v.ara draup ON tha alad NV tho man