Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-02-22
WESTERN LIBERAL
LoRDsBURe. FEBRUARY % IeOl.

AR. and Mrs. R. NJ, Kedzle, and Miss
Mary are expected to arrive today and
make Lordsburg their future home.
j. A. Farmer came on from Ken.
lucky the drst Of the week TO take
charge OF the drygoods business OF the
Eagle drug mercantile company.
Today is Washlngton's Birthday
Do you remember George9 II you do
not ask Bramble 0wnby about him.
lie can tell you all about George.
Some OF the young people 10 towu
have organized a social club, the OBJ
ject Of which is to have weekly meet
ings, at which the people who attend
are TO have a good time. A most COM
mendable object. The club deserves
to succeed.
Judge NJ. W. McGrath and Con.
stable II ~ MeGrath have been quite
sick the past week, and confined to
5 the house. The town seems To have
been as quiet and peaceable as though
they had been on hand TO attend to
police business.
Captain S. Fl. STANDARD, who has
been here With his nephew, f. S.
Lusk, left on Wednesday. He will
visit his brother at STANDARD, Texas,
take a little trip around the south-
west, aud return to his home in Den
yer sometime next month.
P. NJ. Chase was in from the Ami
mas the frst OF the week. lie says
there was such high water 10 the Ami
mas during the storm OF a couple OF
weeks ago that the steamers had
trouble in anding their regular landing
places, many Of them being under
water.
A. W. Clifford was up from Ell Paso
this week to take a look at the Dundee
mine. He was accompanied by Frank
Sparks, Of Bancroft, Iowa. Mr..
Sparks is mayor OF Bancroft and is
spending the winter ia Ell Paso, to
avoid the unpleasant features of an
Iowa winter.
Mrs. f. S. Lusk and Mrs. @. e.
Hutchinson returned the irst OF the
week from a trip to Clifton. While
there they took alouk at the tortuouS
path of the Morenci Southern, and
both ladies concluded that II they
were going to Morencl they preferred
to be drives over the stage route to
making the trip over the railroad.
There was a terrible accident in the
Commerce nine at Ash Peak, near
Duncan last Saturday, caused by the
unexpected explosion Of about half a
ton of dynamite. The powder was
kept in a drift on the 1fty foot level.
A miner named Sam Phillips went
after powder and took the last in the
box. AS he came out of the level he
met two more miners, Joe Phillips
and Joe Alamo, going 10 after more
powder. sam Phillips had got back
to the.Ssdrift where he was working
with Ed Bratton, and was liking for a
blast when the explosion came. What
caused II will never be known. TIE
explosion of this powder had a terrible
effect. or the bodies Of Alamo and
Phillips, who were in 10 the magazine
no piece larger than q couple Of inches
could be found, and some pieces were
blown out OF the mine and found Oh
the mesa. What could be gathered
UP Of these two bodies did not oil a
cigar box. Besides these two Charles
O'Neill, aged 90, of Fort Thomas, Clay
Godfrey, aged Is, MILFORD Wilson,
aged %, aud Thomas Caid, aged Al,
were 10 the mine and instantly killed,
all we're frightfaily mangled. John
O'Connell OF D&nversi Massachusetts,,
who had charge OF the hoist. was near
the mouth of the shaft, aud was blown
some lfty feet 10 the air. He lived a
few moments after reaching the
ground, but never recovered cOncious'
ness. The escape of Sam Phillips and
Ed Bratton Is considered miraculous,
They were close to the face OF the
drift. and we're jammed Up against II
and rendered unconclous for a time.
1t is thought that II they had heer
ten feet from the face of the drift
they would have been killed. Joe
Alamo was to have been married thi;
week. All the men were single ex
eept Caid, who had a wife and severa
children. The body Of O'Connell wal
embalmed and taken 70 his old hom'
by his brother Michael, who also wa
working, but luckily was not 10 o
neat the mine at the time Of the ex
plosion. The O'Connel brothers wer'
stockholders IN the company, ant
were cousins OF NJ. Fl. Twomey, tn,
superintendent Of the company. Th'
timberlng IN the shaft and the cola
OF the shaft we're all blown away
The holstlng cable, a heavy wire cable
was hanging down the shaft some tw
hundred feet and was blown up 10 tn
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