Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-03-03

ated considerable of a sensation at
the first night session held during
the inquest over the II dead vic
Tins from the Belmont mine last
night, when he stated that he had
gone to sleep in the dog house,
having left his cage after be-
ing instructed by superintendent
Fitzgerald to stay with it" AL
lens explanation of his, visit in
Sunderland was that he had at
tended masquerade ball the night
previous and had not had any sleep
While he was not positive just how
many trips his cage made while he
was still counting morpheus, before
he awoke and again assumed his
duties as eager of the mine, Allen
was sure that it had made at least
one; the cage descending when his
partner, Britt, made a trip to the
surface during the sleep period and
necessitating Aliens stopping at the
1000-foot level to release the cage
on his first trip down after awaken
ing. The witness testified to the
the fact that he was asleep at least
an hour, possibly more.
For the first time since the cor
oners jury commenced the investi-
gati0p ladies were present at the
session this (Friday) afternoon
They were Mrs. Atkinson and Mrs
DIR. Grigsby.
The first witness called this
morning was William Mcdonald g
miner He said he working in the
drifts in the 1166 on the day Of
Sne fire and went to work at tht
usual time on the 23d. He Wen
to the Desert Queen because ever!
one else went, but he received NJ
orders, he stated.
The witness then testified tina
Fitzgerald came to the 100O-foo
level and said: "Some of you fel
lows come down with me-" The
started through the No. 2 stope t
the 100 to the number of eight
but only five got through. The
after looking around, four of u
came back to the 1000-foot level o
the cage. We reported that Dor
dero and several others were miss
ing, but just then they turned up.
Then followed a graphic descril
tion of how the smoke and gas col
tinued to increase, and how he an
many others were compelled to wal
after entering the cage, before the
were raised to the surface +
stated that Dondero and Burke,
we'll as four to six others, we
getting ready to bulkhead on Il
1855 when he took the canvas dow
and that he did not see the othe
again.
Mcdonald testified that around
o'clock on the fatal morning al
men left on the 1855 when
caught the cage for the top cou
not have withstood such conditio
very long. He did not believe,
that time, that any men were st
there. However, he testified; tn
it was simply a matter of getti
cages to that level
"The conditions when l left we
better on the 1166 than on
loo. don't think there "
much chance for them to get {
after l left" said Mcdonald.
Mark Matthews, miner and n
chine man, followed Mcdonald
the stand He went to the Des
Queen shaft, not in response to q
order. but he heard somebody {
that somebody had ordered the n
down the Desert Queen. He '
instructed on the 1000 to get
truck and remove the powder fir
that level, and also from the s
foot level, sending all the pow
ION top. Three cages of pow.
SIWeHI up lIom lHS AVVV-Aoo' ~
John McQuillan, top foreman
the Belmont, says he asked F
gerald: "Are the men going
work."
Fitzgerald said: mo men
down this shaft, those men Il
going over the trail) said they =
going down the other side"
McQuillan, being told by +
gerald that men still around
Belmont shaft could Ego to
other side" McQuillan so instr
ed the men. He asked Long
he stepped from the cage 81