The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-08-01
ATTORNEY FOR UP.
To SPEAK FRIDAY
Meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce, Open to Public, to Be
Addressed by F. G. Athern
of San Francisco

Fred G.. Athearn counsel for the
Union Pacific company at San Fran
cisco, has agreed to speak before
the local Chamber of Commerce at
the next meeting of that organiza-
tion, which will be held on Friday
evening, August a. Mr.. Athearn is
said to be a gifted speaker and
possessed of a most pleasing per-
sonality.
In view of the fact that Mr.
Athearn has been secured as a spe-
cial attraction on that evening, the
regular meeting of the chamber will
be open to all residents of the com.
munity, whether Of the membership
or not, according to an announce
ment made today by Secretary
Theodore Grady.
1t is believed by Mr.. Grady that
the message which Mr.. Athearn will
present on the occasion of his visit
is of such vital interest to the com.
munity that great number of Win.
nemucca's citizens will respond tc
the call which is now being sent out
by the officials of the local com
mercial body.
The meeting is scheduled to con.
vene at the regular hour, 8 o'clock
and it is promised that this portion
of the evenings program viii be
entirely dispensed with before the
dance, given under auspices of the
local Shopcraft, will commence.
still considered highly valuable ane
has produced on a smaller scale
during the intervening years since
discovery. Several sets of leaser.
are now working there.
Concerning the fire, The Silver
Staee's special correspondents at Nc
Dermitt reports:
tsrEcIAL CoRaRsPoNDENcKl
NC DERMITT, New, July 81
McDermitt was the scene of con
siderable excitement on Sunda,
evening, when a hurry-up call fol
help was received from National
as tunnel No. 2 Of the Nationa
Mines was reported to be on fire
with two men in the tunnel.
Smoke had been noted in tn,
vicinity of National, late in tn,
afternoon, but not much attention
was paid to it. About 6 p. m.
Harold Zwingle, foreman at the
Utah Construction ranch, reached
town with word of the fire and thai
National had been trying for a long
time to get McDermitt by phone
but finally got a call through to tn,
Utah Construction ranch, nine mile.
from town.
The call was responded to at once
by two carloads of men, driven b,
Joe Lyon and Leonard Simpson
who hurried to National. In about
an hour Ben Hudelson of Nationa
reached McDermitt to take another
load of men and to phone Winnie
mucca. He stated that there wa.
very little hopes or saving the men
In the meantime the phone con
nections were established with Ma
tional, and in response to call fol
more men and two fire-engines, an.
other carload of men and Juar
Jaca's truck loaded with the fire
engines and all the men it would
hold left for National about two
hours after the first cars left.
Then the call came for lanterns
candles, and buckets. Just as a cai
was preparing to take up these sup
plies, the word was received thai
the men had been rescued. The
men, Joe Bolam and Peter Z. Mad
sen, had been finally enabled tc
come out of the burning tunnel
whose flames had been considerably
quenched by the fire extinguisher.
brought from McDermitt, and by
the water carried from Sheattown
full quarter mile away.
A call had been sent to Winnie
mucca for more fire extinguishers
gas masks and men, but they were
turned back after reaching Cane
Springs, half the distance from
Winnemucca.
The rescued men, though quit,
exhausted, were otherwise unin
jured except for singed hair anl
shoes about burned off their feet
After the rescue, the lunch anc
coffee served by Mrs. Felix Landi,
and Mrs. Ben Hudelson were mucf
appreciated by the fire fighters
numbering about twenty-five from
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