The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1916-08-05
HOO DOC DAY ON
WITH A VENGEANCE


last Tuesday was somewhat of a
"hoodoo" day. At any rate it was a
day of accidents and near-accidents
which might have brought much
sorrow to this peaceful community.
During the noon hour, William
Culverwell, driving the Culverwell
Brothers auto bus and having as
passengers a son of Mrs. Jennie Will
cox and Lew Gillispie, backed the
the court house, when it rolled
down the hill, making three COM
plete revolutions before coming to a
halt. AS far as the auto was con-
cerned, no damage was done except
to the top which was completely de-
molished, The Wilcox boy was sit
ting in the seat with the driver;
they both jumped when IL was seen
that the machine was beyond con-
troll, and got out with only a serious
fright. Mr.. Gillispie did not fare
so we'll. He was on the inside of
the bus with no possible chance of
escape and was obliged to stay with
the machine as it tumbled down the
embankment. However, he consid-
ers himself very fortunate that he
got out with nothing worse than a
broken collarbone and few bad
bruises.
Later in the day, Harry L. Parker,
superintendent of the Pioche-Brstol
mine. was coming to town having as
a coppauinns B. L,sGhristensen who
had been employed at the property.
Coming down to point near the
flew out from the wheels hitting Mr.
Parker, who was at the wheel, back
of the ear. The rock came with
such force that Mr.. Parker was mo-
mentarily stunned and let go his
grip on the steering wheel. This
resulted in the car turning turtle
with Mr. Parker and Mr. Christen.
sen landing underneath. Parker
gaining his senses, crawled "out
from under" and assisted Christen
sen in gaining terra firma. At first
it was believed that the latter wa.
, seriously hurt and Parker made
haste to Jack Rabbit and telephonet
) for a physician. When brought tt
town it was found that Christensen
! had suffered no broken bones ant
: other than being slightly bruise,
( was all right.
But what might have been tn
7 worst disaster of all was a runawa
! team belonging to the Atlanta-Hon
Mining company. j. ". Pratt IL,
r teamster, was loading a lot of Src
: ceries onto the wagon in front os t.
e Hodges-Cook Mercantile collpah.
e when an iron hoop. manned by
e small boy, frightened the horses an
: they took nd0Wn Mar, street. Turr
e ing north on Lacour street the 'as
:. on, team anu all tled into a he,
y in front of the Commercial clu
Meanwhile, box of matches too
fire, which was communicated to
can of gasoline. The fact that in til
1 wreck was 500 pounds of giant pov
der caused a fright which will not |
IS soon forgotten. Men, women ar
y children ran frantically to places
u safety, fearing that an explosic
} might follow any moment whit
y would blow the central part of tow
q to atoms. But in the crowd we
II cooler heads, men who are accustor
ed to handling of powder in t
10 mines and no doubt their presen
ie is all that saved an awful catastr
= phe. They went about picking
the sticks of giant strewn here al
III there until all were accounted fl
+ While this was going on, line
~ fire hose was stretched and wat
turned on to extinguish the f
" which would soon have caused
- explosion of gasoline.
he
). During the day miner work.
in the Prince Consolidated mine h
his foot mashed. In the evening,
furious thunder storm prevailed
ar the vicinity of the Delmue ranch a
he bolt of lightning killed valua
ci- cow So all in all, it was a day
ce one disaster following another
nut fortunately it was no worse. Sur
it was bad enough.