The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-03-08

: Bullion tunnel level that was 80 fee
had been blasted, returned To the col
lar of the shaft, in company with
mine foreman. The foreman founC
the smoke conditions too thick for i'm,
mediate work and told the man I,
wait until it cleared and went or
about his other duties. An hour latel
Magcler was found dead at the bot.
tom of the shaft. He had evidently
disobeyed the shift boss orders in go.
ing down into the smoke too soon, hat
been overcome by the after gases OF
the blast and in attempting to climt
the ladder had fallen back to the bot
tom and was dead when found
4 on July &c, at the Morning mill, al
Mullan, Charles M. Glider, a married
man, employed as a carpenter, was
killed While in the act of mailing a
platform hanger about II feet above
the main floor of the mill over g.
inch moving line shaft, when his loose
clothing was caught, which pulled him
around the shaft. 1t was found that
suspender of his overalls was the
first article to wrap around the shaft
and had probably come loose in the
course of his work.
On August IL, at the Consolidated
Interstate Callahan mine. at Sunset,
Mike Stellin. single man, employed
las a shoveler while mucking in a
new shaft station being cut that was
! heavily timbered except one set for
which space was being made, was
caught by boulder of ground which
! fell from the back and pinned him to
the floor causing his instant death
On October %, at the Morning mine
lat Mullan, John Cabin, single man,
employed as shaft eager, while as
oending the shaft with another man
from the 10th to the 14th level with a
small load of dull steel and a light
STOPPER machine, was caught between
the shaft timbers and the cage and
instantly killed. This accident was
probably due to the victims holding
the machine upright In his hand when
the jar of the cage threw him off his
balance and might have been avoided
by placing the machine upright in the
tool box which was on the cage at
the time and provided for that pur-
pose.
On November q, at the CONSOLIDATE
ed Interstate Callahan mine. at Sun
set, George Failey, single man. en-
ployed as a shoveler. on which work
he had been employed for year at
this mine. was working on a muck
pile and undermined large loose
boulder lying on top of the pile which
rolled down and caught him and
crushed the life out of him. This ac-
eident should have been avoided nv
the fall of the boulder by
pushing it off the top of the pile with
a bar or blasting it.
On December 4, at the Gold Hunter
mine. at Mullan, Joseph Carson. a
married man, employed as mine sup
erintendent and one of the most ex-
perlenced men in that capacity in the
Occur dAlene district. had his skull
fractured by fragment of rock from
small blast which resulted in his
death four days later. Mr.. Carson in
going his rounds right after the NOR |
nlng shift went on was returning from
the AZ floor of the east Bremen stone
by the east raise and stepped onto the
~ floor where small tight stone had !
been blasted on the previous shift and
Where one man was at work muck !
ing This man had found a boulder on
the top Of the muck pile which needed
Dull doing. had placed a single stick
of powder on it. went to the east raise (,
ana followed fire-accOrding to his
[estimony-then spit his fuse and went
10 the main raise a few feet further
west to guard against approach. IT |
appeared that Carson had not heard |,
MS warning and stepped on the 80
floor looking for this workman and
was within few feet of the blast !,
when it went off. I.
On December 81, at the Morning
nine, at Mnllan, Arthur Fields. +;
single man and employed as q motor X
mans helper, was electrocuted on the !
400 east drift while riding on the re-
'istance box at the rear end of the
motor. 1t was thought that he acct {
ientally came in contact with the IL
roley wire, which, however, was we'll h
guarded by an inverted trough shane h,
,ox and the motorman sitting in front r
If him with his back to the victim. f,
lid not see the immediate occurrence !.
tut discovered 1t within few feet
md stopped the train.
Honor List.
1t viii be seen from the foregoing y
hat the personal element entered h
'ery largely into these unfortunate ia /,
alities, together with the inevita BILE +,
hazards of the business, as there was j,
hardly an instance, especially in the |,
lccidents resulting from small falls of h
where the timbering condi-
ions We're not as closely and substan-
tally maintained as is competent
With the economic operations of the ,
IRE bodies involved.
The honor list of Immunity from, 70 !,