The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-06-12
.SUPT. F. A. LUCY FALLS
TO DEATH IN FLORENCE

Frank A. Lucy, mine superintendent of the ronrm mine met fSamnemsdm death at p o'clock Monday
by ptngug down the I'D Reilly shaft of tho Florence nine mg 100 feet The body was terribly nhi
and almost urcghabe It's probable that Mr. Lucy was dead before he truck the potion the shaft
his body vas Subjected from timber to tmbu in the downward plunge NIL Lucy was attempting to ross the 4
n at the @fa level on defective rhk when broke udr his eight, preunaune him to his .
dh .
just how the eimt occurred is at present unknown but is reported that he wa. Alternating To =
ross the sn at the 6ft kb presumably on plank which is said to AVE either broker or Imd .
'peipMnmg hin to his dh Whether this the exact cause of the sehmt can not at this time bpma .
lively Sad q
Te other men were in the shaft at the time the acddut occurred but they were below Mr. Lucy .
and did not know of the accident until his body plunged down the smh william Anderson foreman of the .
repair gang was the shaft with she Others and was the first to raN what had happened Making ur .
way to the boom, the men found the uhad remains and life vas aut .
A telephone message was sent TO the om@ at Hem mine and men were sent over the Reilly shaft to .
aa in rhng the body to the surface which was lone by mMB of ropes as there was no power con .
ned up with the plant where the accident occurred .
The body was soon rmnvi to Duns mdeakngp ans and Dr Dmam undertook the dHae task .
of notifying Mrs Lucy of the accident that bdb fhn her husband Mr. Lucy is survived by his widow .
and little boy bout I uohs of age Mr. Lucy was married. in Michigan to Miss Frances Fdm9 in >
1906 b unhsodh that Mr. Luyr carried considerable life and accident insurance. but the mount ba =
known ,
Mr. Lucy wa but semtya pdntd~ paiundtf he Florence mine and assumed his d@ Jel :
HI was one of the most able young aiming engineers in the camps and rda brilliant career just opening for =
him. He wsa graduate of the Colorado State school of Mines sat Colder from which he rhmtd in 1901 :
He was reared in Denver, and was about 30 years of age at thu. time of his Death He paied his pro- .
fn as mimi mger in Colorado previous to coming to GOhdd about four years ago. and has =
followed that line with great success in this camp making reputation for himself which baokmd =
Splendid mr in mining activities His appointment superintendent of tn Florence mine was the =
sequel of the splendid mdmeingw work had carried out in that property, where he hsd done practically =
all of the compmys surveying for several years. Some of the most difficult work he has recently had in =
that line has been connecting old lease workings with the main workings of the Florence nine to fi =
tate generations and the extraction ore un plans adopted by the company since uel EASING system was .
brought to an end He also directed the ao@ut from the 500 level heod Engineers lease workings to =
the mnt where the aek snow bng put up to nnmt with the bottom of the main working shaft of =
the Florence NINE ,
The dpmhha accident has been Instinct shock to hep people of GdnhI where Mr. Lucy was held in .
the ht personal md Professional esteem =