The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-18
FELL TO HIS DEATH
August Marshall SMASHED to a Pulp
in the Wake-Up-Jim.
THERE WERE NO WITNESSES
He Had Evidently Pushed His Car
to the Shaft, and I'm Arranging IL
for the Cage. to Be Lowered,
Lost His Ealanoe.

There was another fatal mining ac-
cident in Butte yesterday, the victim
this time being August Marshall and
the scene the Wake L p-Jim mine. This
mine is at present under lease to w.
II. Pickering. Jim Chamberlain and j..
II. Hendricks, ex-superintendent Of
schools. The mine is about LOCO feet in
depth, but the leasers are only operat-
ing to the 300.
on the 300 level two carmen were at
work yesterday afternoon at O'Clock
running two cars with ore from the
northeast chute TO the station. L. G.
Mclaughlin, the foreman, went down
to the 300 at O'Clock and was at the
station for a moment. August Mar
shall, one of the two carmen, was
there and had a chat with Mclaughlin.
The latt got into the cage and lowered
the crossbar which serves as a protec
ton TO keep people from walking into
the shaft. Marshall was smoking
pipe and asked Mclaughlin II he would
not smoke a little. Mclaughlin said
he believed he would and took Mar
shall's pipe, gave the signal and went
to the level above.
Mclaughlin had been at the 200-foot
level not more than eight minutes
when he heard a crash down below.
He and the two timbermen with whom
he was talking got on the cage and
went at once to the 800 There was the
other carman. They asked where Mar
shall was and he did not know. as he
had not seen him since he came from
the chute On his last visit. They no
ticed that the crossbar across the
mouth of the level was up. This indi-
Gated that Marshall with his car had
probably fallen into the shaft. The
cage was lowered to the 400 and there
the body of the unfortunate carman
was found lying on the wall plate.
The car had gone down further. Mar
shall's body was smashed almost to a
pulp. the legs and arms were broken
and almost all the bones of the body.
The body was taken to the surface and
the coroner notified.
Mclaughlin Is certain that the cross
bar was lowered when he left the 800.
IL must have been raised therefore by
Marshall himself who probably want
ed to get everything ready to put the
car right on the cage AS he raised
the bar and swung the car around IL
probably got too strong for him and
carried him with II down into the
shaft. Coming from the chute to the
station there Is a decline within so feet
of the station and the car has to be
held in coming to the shaft. Marshall
had a second chance for his life. Be
sides the bar across the mouth of the
shaft to hold the cage, it being seldom
sent below the 300. Marshall might
have caught these bars. but if he tried
II he failed. The true story of the ac-
cident can never be known, for there
were no witnesses to IL.
Marshall was an Italian by birth. He
had been for many years in this coun-
try, and had worked about u years as
a carman I'm this vicinity. He had
worked at the Wake-Up-Jim since
April 25. and previous to that had
worked at the Ground Squirrel for a
long time. He leaves a wife and child
of years. living in Meaderville. His
wife also has by former husband two
grown daughters and a son of II years.
Marshall was a memIr OF the Miners
union and of the A. %. u. w. Deputy
Mine Inspector Miles will inspect the
scene of the accident this morning.
The inquest will be held at o'clock
this afternoon.