The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-14
AS is related in the Democrats tele.

graphic columns this morning the town
of Huntington, our neighboring little
city to the east of US, the end of the o.
r, & n. division in Oregon, was visit
ed at an early hour Yesterday morning
by the fire fiend and a large part of
the business portion of the town laid
In ashes. The loss will reach about
$4,000 and only a small insurance.
Fortunately only frame buildings were
destroyed. The people of Baker City
extend their sympathy to their Hunt
ington friends and deeply deplore the
loss they have sustained. But the loss
will be only temporary. The people Of
Huntington are built of the right sort
of metal and in a very short time
Phoenix like" there will arise from
the ashes finer buildings than ever and
the fire of yesterday will prove of
benefit instead of a detriment.-Baker
| City Democrat.
J. H. Laird, William Mcleod, A. j.
Cameron, a. McGregor, Wynne New
ton, George Robinson, James TEACHER
William Campbell, R. B. Tackle and
Sam Finlayson left last evening over
the Great Northern for johannesburg.
South Africa. NJ. J. Bradley, H. J.
Bradley and Dan Mcdonald, will leave
over the same road tomorrow evening
and will join the others in New York a
week from tomorrow and will reach
their destination in about a month.
This is the largest party that has ever
left Butte for the South Africa gold
fields, although parties of two to five
people have been quite frequent over
the Great Northern. The men are all
carpenters and millwrights and all of
them with the exception Of Mcdonald
are under contract with H. A. McMil-
| Ian, a former Butte architect, who
went to South Africa last year and is
rapidly acquiring fortune there.
The men will be paid S. a day, and it
is said that their living expenses will
not exceed $1.5o day.-Anaconda
Standard.
Charles McGann was instantly killed
in the Poulin shaft about o'clock
last evening through his own careless
ness and failure to obey orders. Fore
man Tom Bulger Mike Dwyer and Nc
Gam were engaged in plumbing in the
east shaft between the 600 and 700
foot level when the accident occurred.
Bulger and Dwyer went down to the
700 and McGann remained at the 600
foot station. No hosting was being
done in the east shaft and Mccain
was told by the foreman to put a
plank across the shaft and adjust the
lines and he was expressly instructed
to remain there until the work was
completed, as it was feared that if he
moved he might knock either the plank
or some loose dirt down on the men at
work below. II was the foreman's in
tention to plumb the center compart-
ment, which is at present used only by
the sinking crew. after plumbing the
east compartment.
Instead II remaining in the east
compartment, however, as he had been
instructed Mccain, after adjusting
his lines, took up the plank and laid it
across the shaft and sat down upon it,
presumably to rest. In the meantime
the candles of the men at the 700 gave
out and Dwyer was sent up to the 600
for a fresh supply. Supposing that
Mccain was in the compartment, he
rang the cage in the center up to the
900. The bonnet of the cage knocked
McGann from the plank on which he
was sitting and he was thrown over
against the center piece between the
two compartments. His head struck
the center piece and he was killed in
stantly. The cage was running very
slowly at the time, as the engineer
had instructions to run slow while
work was going on in the shaft. Nc
Gam was sitting within a foot of the
rope and 1t is regarded as very strange
that he did not see it moving and get
into the station.-Anaoonda Standard.
The men working on the 200 level of
the Illinois mine had a. startling ex-
perience on Sunday. The mine ad-
joins the Snow Drift and is owned by
Charles Bielenberg. The men were
running a drift at the 200 when one Of
them struck a seam in the rock and
water began to pour out in great
quantity. The foreman took a light
and went to examine the place from
which the water was coming, thinking
perhaps the men had accidentally
tapped an underground stream.
AS he approached the spot, in the
language of the men "the water took
fire." The men and the foreman got
away as rapidly as possible and it was