The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-20
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: MONDAY. JANUARY 20 lsos

could do for ourselves, 50 we went
back into the south drift and sat down
and discussed our situation and argued
whether the cave had broken the six
inch pipe or not somewhere above in
the shaft.
Welcome Voice From the Surface.
we knew in case tie six-inch line
was broken it was all # with us, but
finally we could hear some ore ham
mering on the pipe lire, and thai was
very encouraging, and about 1 or 2
O'clock. as l was standing a the open
end of the pipe, some one from the sur
face hollered down the pipe and called,
Oh. Bailey, and you can take my
word for it that it was the most well
come sound that ever greeted orr ears.
A few minutes after they called down
they turned compressed air down the
steam pipe, and we called up and told
them to shut off the air, as the steam
line is broken in the shaft somewhere
opposite our station, and the dust
being raised would have suffocated US.
Then they shut off he air from the
steam line and made connection with
the six-inch water pipe AMI sent us
some compressed air, and it was GER
tainly welcome, as L should judge the
temperature in the station WAS 100 de-
grees before the cave, and the dirt that
came down the shaft was SO tine and
raised so much dust it was thick
enough to cut with a knife.
Water Sent Down Pipe.
After sending down enough air TO
last for a time they found an old can
somewhere on top, filled it with water
and lowered some down to us through
tie six-inch water pipe, but as the can
was not sealed tight on the upper end,
when il got to the elbow at the bottom
about all the water leaked out before
we could get it, As the can was a
dangerous thing to send down, as there
was danger of it's sticking in the ell at
the bottom of the pipe we kept the can
down here and sent message up to in
form the men at the surface what the
conditions were, and then the master
mechanic, NJ. Dueikin, got together
some two-inch nipples made of gas pipe
about six inches long, with pipe caps
screwed on the ends of the nipples, so
that the next time water was sent down
the elbow was all right. Then they
made up a train of two nipples instead
of one and dashed them to one another
with wire, but a short time after the
wire broke while they were hosting
them and one of them fell back down
the pipe and came out into the station
like cannon ball.
But, before l proceed further, l must
state that i'm the second or third trip of
the nipples note was sent by the cleo
trician, J. Brown, from the surface,
telling us to connect our phone to the
large transmission cables that were i'm
service for our electric pump, so we
connected our phone as instructed, and
we have been able to talk with the sur
face ever since.
Improved Food Train.
After the little mishap TO our sup
ply train, they improved the train by
screwing an eyebolt in the caps and
added two more vessels to the train, so
that now everything is coming down all
right, and our improved train, with eye
bolt and flexible connection from one
nipple to the next, makes a capital
train and also a train we can get
around the elbow. For short time We
were puzzled and did not know how
to get the small vessels around the ell
bow and out of the end of the pipe
within reach, but we found an old
three-quarter-inch pipe round hanging
bolt and arranged hook on the end
of same. so now we have very little
trouble fishing our train from the elbow
and out to the end of the pipe.
Nearly Knocked OFF Ladder.
How my companions ever managed
to climb out of the shaft with such a
shower of dirt going down l do not
know, but when they got to this level
they certainly were a sight to look at,
as their clothes were just covered with
dirt and dust and the pockets on the
side of their jumpers were as full of
dirt as you could pack them. McDon-
aid was the first man to get to the
station, but on the way up the shaft
he was struck on the head with a rock
and very nearly lost his hold on the
ladder, but, thank the Lord, he held on
to the ladder. because if he had fallen
Brown, being below him, would have
been also knocked off. and it would
have been all off with them.
Filled Up Fast.
Brown says that while he was COM
ing up the shaft he stepped on dirt, 50
you can see that the shaft was filling
up as fast as the boys were climbing.
Brown and Mcdonald had this much in
their favOr-the rock that fell was very
fine, and they were working on the east
end of the shaft, and as the shaft is a
tWO-cOmpartment dffd1r TO the l,OOO-foOt
level, and three-cOmpartment from
there down. they were not under the
worst part of the cave, and you could
not find d rock among the dirt here as
large as a turkey egg. After the shaft
was filled up above this level everything
on the station was covered from five
eighths of an inch to one and half
inches with dust, and for several hours
we were splitting mud, and it seemed
to take from three to four days for the
dust to settle. Whenever I touched my
teeth together 7 could feel the grit be-
tween them. We took oil and waste and
soaked the dust SO that at the present
time we are not troubled with dust, and
it is quite pleasant here. We did not
sleep any for the first three nights we
were down here.
Made Three 5unks.
The only place we had to lay down
on the station floor and the floor