The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-07-09
IN NO
5 SHAFT.
TRANCE DEPEDRINI FALLS
26O FEET AND Is IN
STANTLY KILLED.

On the morning of the Ord of
July word was brought down
town that Mr.. Depedrini had fall
len down the No. 5 shaft. and a
little later, word came that he
was found dead in the bottom of
the shaft.
1t seems that it was one Of
those unfortunate occurrences
that once and awhile befall men
in the occupation which he was
employed, a slip and a mans
life ends. From Mr.. Dayton and
Mr.. Jasperson who were
working with him at the time of
the fatal accident, we get the
following particulars:
Mr.. Dayton said that he
went on shift July 3rd at z
A. M. with Mr.. Jasperson and
Depredini. We have been doing
timbering in the shaft and were
working at about 240 feet down
from the surface and were NOV
ing the sets of timbers to the
west to bring them in line, as we
were lining up the shaft When
we first went down we looked
around and eased up the set by
taking the block out of the west
end so that it would move easy.
Depredini took a block out from
the hanging wall over the top of
the tagging at the bottom of the
set in the west end of the shaft,
! took the block from him and
laid it on the platform, then |
| said / will go over to the other
end and start to lacking, ! did
not notice any more of him I'M
til he came over beneath me in
the set below and he said wait
a minute. | was working on
the jackscrew, jacking the set
over to the west. the jackscrew
is an ordinary one about twenty
inches long. and using a bar
made outof drill steel to turn the
jack screw. When Depredini
said to me wait a minute" /
stopped work and looked down
at him, he picked up his bar and
put it in the jack that we were
both using, of course had to
wait until he turned it a little
as we both could not work on it
at once with che two jackbars,
so / leaned back against the end
post stood there watching him;
he put his bar in and pulled on
it with both hands, pulling back
wards, and he turned it some,
and it turned so hard that he
kind of give it a jerk throwing
his weight on the bar and it slip
ped out of the jack and he fell
down the shaft backwards.
While pulling on the bar he was
standing with his right foot on
the end plate and his left foot on
a tagging that rested on the end
plate and a center post; the lag
ging rested against the footwall
post. He never said anything or
made no sound. He dropped t {
bar when it slipped and must
have tried to save himself. The
bar fell right straight down from
the jack between the ground and
the end plates ard lodged ten
feet below on the set. called
t, Mr.. Jasperson. and told him
that 'Dippy had fallen. We
had not been at work over 20 or
25 minutes when the accident
happened. Jasperson said to
me that / had better 60 up and
that he would go down. Jasper
son had been working on the
west side of the shaft. | then
went to the surface and toll Mr..
Getchel and Mr., Succetti that
Depredini had fallen down the
shaft. The size of the shaft is
about IL feet in the clear Fl om
end to end and is three compart-
ment and the size of the COM
partment we were working in
was about 8 feet by 4 # 8 incl es
in the clear. This is the nan
way and laddered all the way
down.
From Mr.. Jasperson who was
also working in the shaft We
learn the following.
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