Our land = La Nostra terra. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 191?-1913, 1913-02-22

Through the kindness of Mrs, Charles
Galdabini the following item taken
from a Port Arthur newspaper was
handed to US for publication. The John
Mosselle referred to in this article is a
brother of Mrs. Galdabini.
Two men are dead and three others
are now lying in the st. Joseph's Hos
pital, Port Arthur, in critical eondi-
tion, as the result of horrible acci-
dent due to the explosion of a charge
of dynamite which happened yesterday
afternoon, about half past two, at Red
Rock, sixty miles east of Port Arthur.
The dead are Bajo Jakish, Montene-
grin; Steve Salopia. Austrian.
The injured: Alphonso Raggerio, TIA
lian; Antony Luzzie, Italian; An Aus
trian, name unknown.
The injured men were rushed to the
city Immediately after the accident oc-
Cured, on a special train and the last
report from the hospital early this
morning stated that all three were do
ing nicely, and would likely recover.
Mr. j. Mcmillan, Superintendent for
the Corbett Company, who was at the
scene of the fatality says that the men
were working as pit men with a steam
shovel that was removing rock from a
cut through which the main line of the
C.N.R. will pass. About three weeks
ago the rock, the shovel was loading on
to cars was blasted. but it would seem
that one of the charges missed fire and
was exploded when the teeth of the dip
per which lifts the rock struck it. Six
men are employed in the pit three on
each side of the shovel.
The unfortunate men who lost their
lives, together with the three that
were injured, were standing about fif-
teen or twenty feet away from the dip.
per when it came in contact with the
charge of dynamite The charge ex-
ploded with a terrific crash sending
hundreds Of pieces Of rock skyward
and completely smashing the great
steel dIpper. That only two of those in
the pit, the operator. seated on the
boom Of the shovel, and the engineer,
who runs the crane, were killed is a
miracle.
1t happened that DR.. Hanna Of Nipi-
gon had taken a walk out as far as Red
Rock and was at the scene Of the acci-
dent ten minutes after it had occurrd.
When the station agent at Nipigon was
informed of the sad affair. be sent
Conductor Kenny McCauig with the To-
cal freight train straight through to
Port Arthur with the injured men. En-
gineer Wheatly made a record run and
had his train at the ssation just about
six O'Clock,
( Steve Salopia Ii'ved about twenty
minutes after the explosion. His body
was riddled with rock and death came
as a relief. Jack ash did not live very
( long. He died on the train that was
bringing him to the hospital. His face
( and legs and arms were badly cut by
the flying rock. Alphonso Riggio. who
was foreman Of the gang. is in a pre-
carious eonziition at the hospital One
Of the PIECES of rock struck him in the
forehead and it was thought last night
that his skull was fractured The other
men are not so badly injured.
Nothing is konwn about the Austri-
an who was killed. A cousin Of Jack
.ish Viewed the remains IN Morris un'
dertaking parlors last night and recog-
nized the dead man as a relative. Jack
ish was born at Savink in Montenegro,
where his wife and family reside.
F. Hickey and John Mosselle, the
/ two men in charge Of the engine and
/ the crane, got off witbouto0scratch.