Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-06-30
DETAILS OF
THE DEATH OF
Ed. D. NORTH
WAS SURVEYING NINE WHEN
HE FELL DOWN A HUNDRED
FOOT WINE.

The following clippings were re-
ceived yesterday by S. R. Moore
from Mexico City and refer to the
accident that resulted in the death
of Edmund d. North, the mining
man, who died in a hospital in that
city on June %. The following is
from the columns of the Mexican
Herald of Wednesday, June %:
With his skull fractured, his back
broken in three places, and suf-
fering from internal injuries re-
ceived in fall of thirty meters
down a winze of the Angangueo
mine in the state of Michoacan
Monday morning, Edmund d. North
a well known mining man of this
republic, reached here yesterday
morning over the Mexican Central,
twenty-three hours after the acct
dent, and was taken to the Ameri-
can hospital for treatment.
He was attended by three physi-
clans. His condition late last night
was extremely critical Physicians
had abandoned all hopes of saving
| his life At O'Clock this morning
his condition was considered hope
less.
His wife, who was with him at
the mines, accompanied him to this
city. His daughter, the only child
was left at Angangueo. A sister
Mrs. E. A. Strout, and Mr.. Strout
superintendent of the Santa Ger.
trudis mine at PachucN, received a
wire Monday night about the acct
dent. They took the first trair
out of Pachuca, and arrived here
yesterday morning.
North's father and mother, whC
reside in Los Angeles. California
have been cabled to. They ma.
come to this city at once.
North slipped into the winze a
10 o'clock Monday morning. TIL
only outgoing train from the mine
had left Angangueo at Z O'Clock
The superintendent of the mine or
dered a special train and rushe,
the patient up to Maravatio, Their
! catching the regular train from
, Mexico City and at Celaya mad
connections with the Mexican Cen
trail, arriving here at Z O'Clock yes
terday morning, twenty-three hour
. after the accident. He was accom-
: panied by his wife and DR.. Gillard
> physician at the mines.
:, Dr. A. R. Goodman of this city
and Dr. E. S. English, of Guiana
h juato, who happened to be in til
city, met the train and hurried tn
a patient to the American hospital.
a North's condition was critics
. when he left the mines, and ths
9 he survived the long journey wa
a considered remarkable. Physician
y and nurses were constantly at tn
patients bedside all yesterday an
last night.
Companions Of North are unabl
to explain how he fell into tn
winze. With some of the workme
he was making a survey of tn
mine North was leading the wa
and was followed, it is said, by tie
= or fifteen feet, by the workmen.
He was seen to plunge into tt
winze, and when he was picked u
few minutes later, was uncol
!. scious. He was hurried to II
surface and mines physician Gale
in. He advised that the injur5
man be rushed to this city fl
treatment
e North came to Mexico last App
If as travelling engineer Ter the min
,r department of the American Smel
le ing and Refining company, Whit
20 company has long lease on Il
lie Angangueo. The survey of the mil
ct was the first work assigned to tt
10 engineer. He was, prior to comir
1t to Mexico, connected with the Mo
Is tana Tonopah company, of Tonopa
r the degree of mining engineer fro
A. the Leland Stanford university.
~ was well known as a musician al
lg amateur artist.