The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1907-10-31
VIM. H. KENDRICK
KILLED IN A MINE.
Rock From Blast Crushed HIS Skull.

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in the Reward mine at Nevad,
City on Monday of last week. Jus
how he met his death will never bs
known, but it is known that {
piece of rock from blast strucl
him on the head and killed hin
instantly, the skull being badl,
fractured. Kendrick was one of 6
party of miners who had been
working the Reward for nearly
year and half on a lease.
Mr.. Kendrick was a partner with
David Whildin, Frank Bishop,
Ed. Harry and VIM. Baltz in a
lease on tile Reward mine. They
started work there nearly a year
and a half ago and for six months
did a lot of dead work. Their
work was above the 400 level,
which is tapped by the drain tun-
mel. OF late the miners had been
doing fairly well and we're being
repaid for the long period of dead
work. The men were working in
different places. The dead miner
was engaged in raise from the
300-foot level, while David Whild-
in was working in an intermediate
drift to connect with the raise.
Ed. Harry was working in stope
on the other side of the raise.
At about $3.50 o'clock Kendrick
came into the stope where Mr..
Harry was getting ready to shoot
and said that he was not feeling
we'll, suffering from bad head
ache. They talked for quite a
while and finally Hurry told Ken
drick that he was ready to blast
aud he thought Whildin was also
about ready.
Kendrick left the stope and
presumably started back in the
raise. In the meantime Whildin
had been sounding and trying to
make Kendrick hear him, brt got
no response, the dead miner hay-
ing gone where Harry was at
work. Previous to that Whildin
and Kendrick had been talking to
each other, the wall between them
only about two feet. They dis
cussed the matter of which hole
would break through first and both
thought that it would be tho bot
tom one.
The puzzle is what became OF
Kendrick after he left the stope
with Harry. There is n theory
that when he heard Harry shoot
he might have thought that it was
Whildin's blast, and then started
up the raise, reaching there just
as Whilden's hole fred. 1t is
also possible that after he went
back into the raise he was over.
come the air there not being of the
best, and if he had been it would
have been impossible for him to
answer to the calls.
When the hole fired by Whildiu
went off hole about six inches
wide was broken through into the
raise from the drift and a sral
piece Of rock struck Kendrick with
terrific force over the left eye
fracturing the skull and killing
him Instantly.
After Whildin failed to heal
Kendrlck he concluded that h,
had gone out and when he came tt
the station after lighting his fus,
he inquired of the miners wher,
he was. When informed that he
had not been seen it was conclud
ed that there was somethin.
wrong. Mr.. Whildin fastened NJ
the raise and to his surprise fount
Kendrick lying dead in the raise
some ten feet from where the hol
broke through.
Deceased was born in Nevad
City and was aged about Al years
leaves q wife and three smal
children, an aged mother, fou
brothers and two sisters to mour
his untimely death.
He was man of kindly disro
sition, a splendid miner and ma