Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-01
TWAS A BAD DAY
Two Fatalities in the Mines
Yesterday.
BUCKET CAUGHT PASCOE
Neil TObin Fell 500 Feet in the St.
Lawrence--Was Crushed
Into Jelly.
CAUGHT PASCOE

The record of yesterday in the mines is
a sad one, a~ggregating two awful deaths,
that of William Pascoe, a young man
who was caught between the bucket and
the wall plates of the Stevens mine about
5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and Neil
Tobin, a pipeman employed at the ST.
Lawrence, who fell in some manner i'm
possible to explain, from the 700-foot level
to the stump, a distance Of about 500 feet
and was mangled in q manner most hor-
rible. The Tobin fatality occurred a little
later than the accident at the Stevens
mine. John Tobin, also of the st. Law
renee, was sent to st. James hospital
with a broken thigh.
Coroner Julien is holding an inquest on
the remains of William Pascoe at Rich
ards undertaking rooms this afternoon.
Pascoe was but a boy, being about IS
years of age. The accident occurred in
the east shaft of the mine, on Jackson
street. William BENEFITS, an uncle of
the dead boy, and Frederick Thomas
have a lease on the Stevens mine and
young Pascoe had been working for them
for some time. The ore is brought to the
surface by means of a bucket and horse
whim, and occasionally young Pascoe
would go up in the bucket, although re-
peatedly warned by the men of the Ian
ger attending such an exploit. About five
o'clock yesterday afternoon, young Pas
coe, who was with, Benefits, left his uncle
in the crosscut and started to go to the
surface. Thomas was on top manipulate
ing the whim. Young Pascoc, after put
ting his tools in the bucket, stepped into
the bucket and gave the hosting signal.
On receipt of the signal Thomas started
the Whim, and the bucket, bearing the
young man to his unfortunate end, began
to ascend. When the bucket reached the
70-foot level Thomas says he saw the rope
tighten and felt a jar. A moment later
q cry in the shaft informed him that
something serious had happened. He i'm
mediately stopped the whim and start
ed down the shaft. The boys uncle had
also heard the cutlery, and, much alarm
ed, started up the shaft, arriving at the
70-foot level about the same time as did
his partner. There they found young Pas
coe wedged in tightly between the wall
plates and the bucket, badly hurt, alive
but unconscious. They found also that
they could not loosen the body and sum-
moning assistance, cut away the tim
bers. The body was firmly Wedged in
ana the WOik was necessarily SLOW, anu
before the release was accomplished the
!; young man had succumbed.
Deputy State Mine Inspector Frank
Hunter investigated the accident shortly
after it's occurrence. PascOe was in the
habit, the lessees of the mine told him,
Of standing on the rim of the bucket,
steadying himself with the ropc A por-
ton of the way the shaft is an incline and
at a point where the accident occurred
q timber is set across the shaft, and it
would have been necessary for PascOc to
crouch down to avoid it. The inspector
is of the opinion that he did not stOOp low
enough, encountered the projecting tim
Der and was knocked from the bucket,
The space between the bucket and the
wall plates is but five inches, and young
Pascoe was literally crushed to death.
he dead boy was the son of William
G.. Pascoe, who was formerly a resident
of Butte, and who had more than a local
reputation as a Cornish style wrestler,
The family parents, a brother and two
sisters now live in DodGeVille, Wisconsin
and the only Butte relative of the boy
! is Benefits, his uncle. Pascoe arrived
5 in Butte last spring and was for a time
' employed by Contractor Ryan in the
! work of putting in the Jackson street
' sewer. Later he worked in the Melrost
. stone quarries.
! A telegram was received this morning
) bv Richards from the dead boys father
} asking that the body be embalmed anc
. shipped to the family home, DartsVlile
y Wisconsin. The remains will be sent cas-
, tomorrow hight.