The Anaconda standard., 1898-03-04
CAUGHT IN A CAvE-|A
Emanuel Redding Meets Death
in the King Solomon.
UNDER A MASS OF ROCKS
He Was Alone at the Time and His
Body Was Not Discovered Until
Morning-One Of Montana's
Oldest Pioneers.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena, March Slight years ago
Edward Redding fell down shaft in
the King Solomon mine near Clancy,
and was instantly killed. Last night
his father. Emanuel Redding. a pioneer
Montanan, was caught in eave-in, in
the same mine. and killed.
The King Solomon mine is situated on
Clancy creek, about two miles west of
the town of Clancy. 1t was discovered
by Emanuel Redding about dozen
years ago, and ever since he located it
It has been worked by him or members
of his family with more or less success.
At present it is being operated under
lease by mis- son, George, and his SON
in-law, A. II. Pugsley. They are work
ing five men and have been fairly sue
cessfu They all live near the mine, as
did the deceased. 1t has been the elder
Redding's habit To visit the mine al
most daily to see how the boys We're
getting along. Sometimes he would
take pick, and just to show that his
hand had not lost its skill, do a little
work here and there throughout the
property.
Last night after supper he told his
wife that he was going down in the
mine She thought nothing of his going
down at night; he had frequently done
so before, and then some of the men
We're at work. But when 10 o'clock
passed and her husband failed to return
she had some misgivings that all was
not right. She is an old woman. other
wise she would have braved the dark
ness and gone to the nearest house and
spread the alarm. When midnight did
not bring back her husband she was
badly scared. Mindful Of the fate that
had befallen their son, Edward, she
worried until the break of day, when
she went her II laws and
municated her fears.
He and others hastened to the mine
and began searching for the missing
man. In a stope, not many feet from
the surface, they found his dead body
partly covered by a mass of rocks and
dirt which had fallen upon him from the
ceiling. 1t was evident that he had been
examining ore with pick when the
cave-in occurred. His back had been
broken, an arm was fractured, while
there appeared to have been internal in
iuries. He was taken to his home and
the coroner of Jefferson county notified.
An inquest will be held tomorrow.
Whether he was instantly killed or
lay there, perhaps for hours, awaiting
human aid can only be conjectured
John Rugner. one of the miners who was
working on the l00-foot level. said the
dead man spent couple of hours in
the vicinity in which he was working
and shortly after O'Clock started for
the ladder leading to the surface, re-
marking:
We'll, John, be good to yourself; |
guess III be going home"
This was the last seen of him alive.
The dead man belonged TO the Pio-
neers of Montana, having come to the
territory in 1864. He is said to have
built the first house in Helena. He al
ternately mined and ran sawmil in
this locality, until along in the SOS,
when he moved to Clancy and COM
meneed developing the King Solomon.
He was in his 65th year. As one of his
lifetime friends remarked: Death re-
moved him just at the time he was
mencing to enjoy the fruits of his la
bors"
The funeral will be held here Sun
day. He leaves, besides a wife. two
sons George and Albert, and two
daughters. one the wife of A. H. Pugs-
ley. and the other the wife of George
Harvey of San Diego, Cal.