The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-15
THE BODY IS FOUND.
Remains of Mclean Recovered
From the Sewer Tunnel.
NO INQUEST is NECESSARY
Ten Hours Search Rewarded-Mc-
Lean . Physical Herculcs-The
Tunnel Slightly Damaged.

The body of Daniel Mclean, who was
buried in the Lake Union sewer tunnel
Saturday night by flush of quicksand
forced out by the opening of spring, was
found at 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
The relief corps had been searching for
him over ten hours.
Immediately upon the finding of the
body Coroner Horton was notified, and he
sent Deputy James A. Greene to examine
into the case. Mr.. Greene, attired
In rubber cap, coat and boots,
descended the main shaft. The water,
which was twelve inches deep at 3 O'Clock
Sunday morning, had been pumped out
and progress for a considerable distance
was easy. After this the sand deposit was
reached, and Mr.. Greene was compelled to
crawl along on his hands and knees to
the point where the side tunnel had been
dug at the lett and at right angles to the
tunnel. At this point the body lay. and
in almost the exact location where Peter
Faber said he heard the gurgling sound
from McLean's throat The men had
worked over the spot three times before
discovering the body. and had been COM
PEELED to dig through thick layer of sand.
An examination of the body showed that
there were only two bruises and both of
these upon the face. The most serious
was upon the right eye and indicates that
either the unfortunate man ran into the
planking at the junction of the main and
auxiliary tunnels or was knocked down by
falling beam. The eyelid was cut from
about the center of the eyebal diagonally
toward the base of the right ear. The
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direction about three-quarters of an inch.
The other bruise was simply an abrasion
of the skin of the left cheek.
The body was hoisted to the surface
and taken to Bonney & Stewards under
taking rooms Immediately.
Coroner Horton arrived from George
town, south of the city, in the afternoon,
and held consultation with Deputy
Greene concerning the case. They decided
that an inquest was unnecessary, as the
accident was due to causes unexpected
and beyond the control of man.
Mclean was fine looking and splen-
didly built man. He was about feet IL
inches tall, and would tip the scales in the
neighborhood of 200 pounds. His hair was
ject black and his clean-cut features were
well set off by a dropping mus
tache. His wife and three children
live at Box and Thomas streets. He
was miner by trade and worked in
Franklin previous to coming to Seattle.
His brother, Peter Mclean, lives in Frank
lin, and was notified yesterday of the
accident which cost his brother his life.
Daniel Mclean went to work under Fore
man Stevens at the Lake Union tunnel
August 20, 1891, and made many friends
among the workmen. He was member
of the Odd Fellows lodge at Franklin.
Arrangements for the funeral services
will be completed upon the arrival of the
brother from Franklin.
Thomas Nelligan and Peter Faber, who
were working on the same shift with Nc
Lean, and who narrowly escaped death,
have almost entirely recovered from their
terrible experience.
The damage to the tunnel is triding
The bursting OF the spring forced into the
sixty-foot lead, where the men we're at
work, aboNt 200 cart loads of quicksand
and gravel. The sand can be removed at
comparatively small expense.