The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-03-25


} consisting Of broken timber boulders
and fine muck with the exception OF
{ the line of big caps along the solid
rib Of the raise, which were unbrok-
en- and presented most difficult and
dangerous undertaking to raise
through and reopen Volunteers from
the mine crew, however were abund-
lantly available to tackle this hazard
Gus undertaking with the human
stake of two Of their companions lives
at issue, and the crew was immedi-
lately organized and divided into six
hour shifts to drive through this 200
feet Of fallen ground.
by reason OF light tappings and
dcwntast circulation Of air carrying
litue wood smoke it was known that
The men were alive and the general
manager Of the company. Charles
Herriek. spared neither personal pains
/ or expense in their recovery and
through "a definite survey knowledge
of the Slope shape. its relation to the
cave back of the adjoining Ryan stope
and the forty-sixth floor old sub-level
drift below No adit, a diamond drill
rig on the ground was Immediately
installed with experienced operators
.at that level and a hole bored through
solid ground 60 feet deep to the open
stope space below and near the foot
wall AS soon as the two men heard
the water break through that was be-
ing used with the drill, they scram-
I,. ,f1
refuge i'm the crosscut held one of
their dinner buckets under It and re.
licved their thirst for water. which
had distressed them more than the
lack of food, both of which they had
been entirely out of for three days, /
since piecing out their lunch buckets /
They were also in total darkness |
Subsequently a half-inch galvanized |
pipe was let down through the drill |
hole and extended long enough so |
that they could carry it to their cross
cut refuge through which they could |
talk to their rescuers above and re-
ceive liquid food and nourishment and
subsequently solid food in cartridge
shaped packages was let down, also
abundant candles for light and heat.
which relieved their pressing necessi-
ties and cheered their distress with
definite prospect of being rescued
alive
Denmark and Collins Caught in Cave.
While this drilling was in progress
a volunteer crew of miners were rails
ing through the mass of broker tim
oers, boulders and fine muck "a the
raise at the west end of the
stope which had progressed up to the
twenty second floor when a complex
IF large bOulders was encountered and
while in the act of preparing to blast
his out, two men on shift at the time
Jack Denmark and James Collins, were
trapped in by the boulder
'hoke giving way, breaking the
iprags supporting the open hole that
lad been made in their haste to get
rhis movement Of the caved ground
vas followed by "A big run Of finer
Material that filled the whole raise
ull of debris again to the 18th floor
md shut i'm these two additional men. {
whom it was thought must unques- {
ionably be dead by the crew at the {
evel below. The only thing to do 7
vas to draw the muck and endeavor l
o recover them dead or alive in that {
manner. Through a miracle the men 7
aw the ground giving and took ref 7
ge, one on the 18th and the other on t
ne 18th floor cap timbers next to the a
Old end of the raise which had re- a
.,.ined unbroken. They stood. expect O
ng every minute to be buried AID in C
act the muck only stopped running o
fter it had piled mp to the waist of a
'olins p
The crew below pulled $50 one and o
ne-half ton cars of muck from this d
un in feverish haste. expecting to C
raw ont the dead bodies of the men e
very moment and were delighted to b
nd that the run had been from s
mall break through their temporary n
mbering and they could hear the men W
liking and quickly relieved them e,
'om their dangerous position. 1t was az
ecided as foolhardy TO attempt to get w
trough TO the originally entombed al
len by this route and the crew was d
loved to a crosscut connection from hi
small southwest stope and a steep b'
'-degree raise decided upon through h'
feet Of solid rock aimed to tap iust
GLOW the assumed position Of the ST
'ved stope muck pile This piece of vi
round was driven through in six bI
VS. making "a stuffed raise 7x1O feet al
size and as soon as the solid ground c,
as broken through into the old stope 70
anyway it was found the muck pile IN
Id receded sufficiently so that there az
as very little additional trouble and co
@ men above were rescued from W
cir ionl, confinement of two weeks hg
ia seven hours and found to be un- as
jured except from little nervous tn
ISIS and rheumatic trouble they com m
aimed or which was natural re- tin
NJ Of their long confinement in the Ike
mp ground. Otherwise they were wi
ysically unnjured. They were he
Indfolded before being taken to the ca