The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-27
JAMES B. L0CUE IS
 JAS VICTIM
OLD TIME kOYUkUKER OVER COME IN HOLE ON JENNIE
 CREEK, HAMMOND RIVER.

James E. Logue, an old-time kOyu- kuker, well known along the Yukon river. came 10 his death by breath inG aSphEtic gases in the bottom of shaft on Jennie creek. a small tributary of Hammond river, on the morning of January 13. The re mains were brought down to Wise man. where a coroner's inquest was held before Commissioner Frank F.. Howard. acting as eX-OffiCio coroner. he jury rendering verdict of death bv asphyXiation, or being over come by poisonous gases.
 Logue and his partner James Trail were engaged in sinking a shaft on Jennie creek. and had reached a depth of 133 feet. On the morning of the 18th. when Jim my Traill was lowering his partner down to proceed with the usual rou- tine work. LOgue suddenly shouted 70 Traill 10 hoist him up. Traill re vcrsed the windlass. when the rope suddenly grew slack, Logue having lest his hold and dropped from it when about 12 feet from the bot tom. Traill immediately lowered the rope iltdI lO lllt DOl tOlli anu SlIohl- ed down to his partner, but the only answer he got was faint grooming sound. Seeing that he could do nothing alone, Traill went 10 Hammond river for assistance, a distance of two miles, and re turned with Vernon Watts and John HOlmborg. When Logue was hoisted out of the shaft, after some delay waiting for the gas to escape he was dead. The back of his head showing some bruises, received prob ably when he dropped from the rope.
 The body was buried in the Wise man cemetery on January 15, Com missioner Frank E. Howard per forming the funeral services in the house and at the grave, assisted by the choir. A large number of mourn CTS were present, friends and ac- GuaintanreS who came in from the creeks to be in attendance at the last rites; for James Logue was held in high esteem by his brother miners throughout the Koyukuk.
 A few days later Harry Owens and Joe Gilchrist went to Jennie creek to assist Traill in sinking the shaft to bedrock. but could not go down into the shaft, as gases still remained in evidence at the bottom, They secured a long canvas hose which was let down nearly to the bottom. which in the course of time produced a suction, the gas coming up the hose with a strong nauseous stencil They let the hose hang in the shaft 24 hours, at the end of which time the gas was still rising as strong as when it first began. and they abandoned the shaft.
 The abandonment of this shaft on Jennie creek is cause of much regret to prOspectors in the upper Koyukuk. as it promised much to- ward opening up a new section here tofore unprospected. Good rim pros poets have been found along the creek. and it only required the sink ing of a hole to bedrock to prove whether or not a new creek, with adjoining creeks equally as prom ising, would be discovered. Now people are afraid to do further prospecting there, believing that the thawed stratum of sand and muck II feet in thickness and still going down. in the bottom of the Traill- Logue shaft. and probably close to bedrock, is continuous up and down stream and carries a continuous flow of poisonous gases.-Yukon Valley News