The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-19
Miner Barry Meets an Unusually Sad
Fate Under Ground.
BLAST
! UNFORTUNATE
RE Poor Unfortunate Goes Down
q SHAFT Only to Receive the Ef-
fects Of a Blast Which Ends
His Life Testimony.

on the seventh moor OF the east oov tece
level A short time later James Nc
Garvey, through his own carelessness.
was struck by descending cage and
injured so badly that there is no hope
for his recovery The exact manner by
which Barry met his death Is not
known, but from what the men say |
who were at work on the seventh floor. |
Ii was also due TO his carelessness. |
Patrick Deveny, Frank Finnie, Arthur |
butcher, Denis Clune, William Sny-
der and John Callahan were at work
there. and put in two blasts just be-
fore going of the shift. After lighting
the fuse they went out ana gave ,he
usual signals and set guards at the
two used entrances to the floor. After
both explosions had gone of the men
went back to clean up. ana FOUND bar
ry lying near one OF the blasts. he
was still alive. but died in very few
moments. His face was powder burned
| and he had several small bruises on MS
head and body, but no bones were
broken. 1t is believed. however, that
| his neck was broken. 1t was evident
that he had come down an e old ana UNI III
/ used raise. leading TO the 700. ana al
most directly over the blasts. ana II is
| presumed that he reached the moor
ljust az the explosion OF one occurred.
what reason he had for coming In that
way is not known. The coroner anu i
deputy mine inspector were at once no
tilted and the body was removed 10
the surface and afterwards to his nome
In Dublin gulch.
Coroner Richards impaneled jury
tconposed of G. L. Harris, y. r.. Low
Gilbert Engel, Philip Weinstock, Stepn-
en- Thomas and w. II. Paxson. and an
Inquest was held this afternoon.
| What IL known as to the cause or
the accident was told to the jury py
the men who were first on the scene
after the explosion. Patrick Deveny
said that the last time he saw Barry
| alive was about o'clock last night.
He was one of the men who had put
in the blast. He said that they did not
lexpect Barry. but that ne was IN une
habit OF showing. up unexpectedly.
| After they had loaded two holes the
i men went to a safe distance and walt
| ed until both explosions went on, ana
| then returned and found Barry lying
there. There were two passages
| through which the men always went.
and Barry did not go through ether
as both were guarded. He must, there
fore. have come down the unused raise
He had never been known to use IL pc
fore. The usual time Tor ms co NH, :,
down was 4 o'clock. Barry was lying
about four feet from the blast. he
was knocked around the set. Deveny
| could not say how long Barry hVeu, "
he ran for help as soon as ne touho
him. A. e.s,
, man IN after the blast and heard some
, one breathing hard, as IL MS tsroa'
. | was filled with blood. Finnie was al
. most against the body before he saw
| II, and then ran for help anu re'urheu
: | soon. but he was dead.
= Ftnnie said there were but two useo
| entrances to the place where they nae
| been blasting. One was from the ~
II and the other from the 800. and botf
I l were guarded. No one had ever Deer
| 80. 10
, "when / found Barrys body, sale
r Finnie. II did not see any candlestlct
or candle and i was surprised. 1 saiu
I llsMy God, boys. we have blasted tn'
Q boss I never knew him 10 come IL
o Arthur butcher said Barry was liza
{ ble TO come upon the men at any time
Il but he was never known TO come oowi
: | In the dark. AS soon as butcher saw
: Barry he tried to raise him. out ne wa
I'll dead.
Z 1 William Snyder. Denis Clune ant
. i John Callahan gave about the sam
Il account of the accident as the previ
' Gus witnesses.
3 Anaconda, said he had known Barr,
e seven or eight years. Night befor
last he had given him orders to cleal
up the raise and get II ready Tor
manway and timber chute. No on
r could tell whether Barry went dow
n the raise, but II was the only way h
N could get down without passing tn
q men on guard. MIR. O'Heil never kne,
E Barry or any other man to go abou
ID ! the mine In the dark. and the compan
IT after the men. 1t was Mr.. O'Neil
r opinion that Barry went down tn
e. | raise and got the blast just as h
IL reached the floor. '~sSN
10 John Miles. deputy1mine inspector
lie said that he went to the mine as 500
"a as he heard of the accident and wer
A. down to where the body was and mad
N an examination of the place. He foun
W blood on a post where Barry had bee
or knocked back. Mr.. Miles said he wa
either of the reeular. roads. IL he ha
come down the raise he could not ha,
Is. | heard the signal half way up the rails
- as Il was filled with old timber. whic
would have killed 1.-THE sound. 1T ma
have been.r said Mr.. Miles, that Ba
-. nv went to the raise 10 give more o
e ders TO the men he had Instructed
A. 20 10 work there" but he could not a
count for him going in without ligh
The jury found that John Barr
a, came to his death on the seventh fio'
az OF the s00-foot level east of the An
conda mine, and that 1.-The eviden,
shows that a blast had been prepare
c. for firing. the proper signals given. ar
40 that the miners had retired a safe al
be lance and guarded all known entranc
TN after the explosions" Upon Il
return of the miners the body of Jof
IT Barry yeas found lying very close
where the blast had taken place. al
near the mouth of the cross-cut whi'
led TO an unused raise to the ZOO Bar
having been directed by the superb
III tendent and foreman to prepare IN
20 newly opened raise for practical Us
et, A Is supposed he had come down tn
an way with a view OF inspecting Z
place and laying out his work. and n
having heard the signal given befo
ay the blasting. came prematurely on Z
I'm scene of the explosion. The jury foui
~ that John Barry came TO his death
| accident and that no blame was I
ily tached to either the owners or the el
ne ployes OF the mine.
le- | harry leaves a wife and two childrs
- ne was "a years OF age. born in ",
..r,a 40 Tlt.ffa about nj