Cochise review., 1901-02-23

jury, but the substance of the verdict was that no person was held to be re- sponsible for the accident and the ver- dict was unanimous, as 1t was returned in very short time.
 The following men who were killed were unmarried: Pillipps, Wilson, God frey, O'Neil and Alimo; the others were married. Caid leaves wife and three or four young children in desti- tute circumstances, and OConnell has family in Massachusetts.
 The remains of the Stafford boys were brought home and inferred at Stafford, and O'Neil's remains were taken to his home at Thomas. The re- mains of the other parties were buried at the mine.
 Prof. Towmey, superintendent of the mine, was at Tucson when the acci- dent occurred and Mir. w. A. Bowles, who was in charge immediately dis patched messenger to Duncan, who informed all who could be reacded by wire of the situation.
 Mir. Towmey immediately sent a tele- gram, authorizing MT. Bowles to spare no expense in caring for the dead or for relief of the wounded, and he ar. rived Sunday evening at 10 o'clock.
 Statements of different parties differ widely in regard to the amount of giant powder which exploded, some claiming that there was over 3,O0O pounds stored on the 50 foot level in the magazine, while others ray there were only about 700 pounds. The com panies books, however, will show prob- ably the exact amount. There was al- so some powder and some blasts that were not exploded on the 100 foot level. The true cause of the explosion will never be known, but there are several theories which seem reasonable. One is that the boys were getting powder from the magazine and had dropped a cap or set the cap off with the end of fuse or that they dropped candle or cap on the floor. The two men, Phillips and Bratton, who were alive in the little in regard to it as they were quite distance from the magazine. l be- lieve one of them said that Joe Phillips and Alimo were at the magazine.
 The mine had two openings about 100 feet apart, and the blast came out of both holes, completely destroying every thing in the shafts and around the openings
 NOTES.
 None of the frame buildings were seriously injured, being protected by a granite wall over the entrance to the mine, which threw the explosive force in the opposite direction. Had the wall not been there the buildings and all in them would no doubt have been instantly destroyed.
 The whole surface of the valley west of the mine is literally covered with broken tools, lumber, steel drills, pieces of everything movable that was on the dump, and noticed pieces of heavy timbers, F inches square, at a distance of 300 or 400 yards from the shaft.
 A small frame building used as a blacksmith shop stood not over twenty feet from the main entrance and was not injured to any extent, neither was Mr. Godfrey, who was working in the shaft.
 A steel cable, three quarter inch, was blown out of the mine and part of it was unraveled like rope.
 A dray horse was blown from the dump quit the flat" until Sunday afternoon, when he came in to get wa ter. The hair on his left side is badly singed and he had several slight scratches, but was ready for his supper at feeding time.
 1 Too much praise cannot be given to the brave miners who worked unceas- ingly till Sunday night to clear the mine and rescue the unfortunate men who were inside. They were worn out and almost dead from the experience, but no complaint was heard. One of them remarked that in twenty.seven years of miners experience he never went through such terrible disaster 4 I have seen sad sights and bad acci- dents before, but never anything tc correspond with this, and for that req son will not try to describe the anguish of the suffering relatives.
 Charles O'Neil, the young man iron Thomas, is a son of J. H. O Neil anC has resided in Graham county almost all his life time of about P years. He was sober, industrious, had no bad hab it's, was favOrite where he was knowr and had been working for the company for several months. It vas at his owr request that he had been transferred to the day shift the day before he wa' killed.
 Wilson and Clay Godfrey were botf highly esteemed by large circle O acquaintances and relatives,
 It is not only the duty, but it should be pleasure, for every man in Ora ham county, who can afford to, to gC down into his pocket and give to Mrs Caid and her little children something to live on and to help them in this sac hour in substantial way, and there may be others who need help, and i they do should also be assisted.
 Many of the good people of Duncan came out to render all the assistance