Show it m i i j we wo dijk ther thee ra J 70 nem Ms 1 erqin ram it 0 0 T y I 1 E enterprise offa lk ja uit pit tester yester lay J hsterling HS perling 1 for dor for f maix mail of a gaag of men at i work on the tha virginia ana and truckee railroad mado made a most miraculous ris rif culous escape from frogatt fro mant matt att art instant and horrible deaths death he with his gang 0 men was ah aa work on a cut of consid considerable era lo 10 depth near mill amerlan american fiat flat they hail had put in three charges of about a keg and a half of powder which they fired simultaneously sim ua two of these charges exploded and mr sperling supposing they had all alt gone off together went to the spot to note what execution had haa lad had been teen done and had reached a point just over the tho third charge when it exploded blowing him z ss Q themen say fully 20 r Q feet nto into the air ail he fell ingo into the ther open cut 10 feet below making his whole fall about SO 0 feet feel the dirt and rock fell upon and covered him hint id tot such a depth that it was necessary to dig him out no man present expected to nind find him aliv yet strange cosay to say they not no only found him hun alive but could not even find a brok broken en bone but the doctor after his return from freiti his visit to the tho injured man says that hs s only I 1 injuries n une are one broken rib broke broken on the left left side of the back near the spine and some bad cuts on one side of the face A shouldering ing fire still continues burning in in the east ledge of the kentuck nedr to the yellow jacket line but it t app appears to tove tobe be merely among the charred remains of the tho timbers buried under the waste dirt which covers them this is shown to be the c cae ae by the fact that no smoke escapes from elther of the shafts but in instead stead such a gas as would naturally be be produced by the burning burin of charcoal energetic measures aio alo are aro smi still in use for the extinguishment of the fl nire fire e and every effort is now made to rea reach qi th those e points where it seems hottest 4 w the crown point and kentuck people a are te working together fighting the fire ad and ana d the waste rock and other caved matter removed in order to get at it is taken out through h the kentuck shaft nothing is or can lue luo 99 done at present in the yellow jacket mine owing to the strong gases prevailing there the plan is where work is being done fo 0 o drift through the heaps a of f waste rock p putting t up temporary timbers and throwing throwing water forward to cool the rock as the tte work progresses this is 1 now ow thought to ito be the only practicable plan for reaching and extinguishing the nire tire progress s by these means is slow as whenever tho the water strikes the heated tock rock there at ance once onee issues from it and from the pyrites sulphur and bind lime it contains a gas or gases so suffocating t that the workmen ae forced to beat bead a hasty retreat last list thursday night nive five men masked closely attempted to store storo at truck ee wells fargo fc COs express office at an hour when people were co constantly passing on the sidewalk sid side walk ewal th three 9 men eli ell went wont into 1 t the fy front 0 antt door and two at t the e back cashler ac presenting res ret ting pistols to the clerk erk cashier cashler an and another in t er man but bilt the ci clerk 1 seized a chair an and struck truc true mr obber robber a blo hio blow biow across the head A shot followed followed going tarou through to h the bottom of the chairs chair then aw another atthe attebe clerk narrowly missing him and then appa another and another and ther at which the tle despe desperadoes ran from the store without any booty and without loing abing any damage to any of the persons shot at A short time after inner a person went into winnie wrights saloon and said the robbers shot phot him exhibiting ils ilg lis itis jeg shot quite severely below the knee it is 11 opposed up posed posea by many that this thia person wa was vas ono one 0 of the gang making the attempt which por for boldness and arid laek lack of skill surpasses all 0 credence speaking of tho the driving of the I 1 last silke of the pacific railroad the enterprise sats says at the point where the ends of the ralls rails will connect the telegraph will be brought close from this wire connection will he made with salt sali lake omaha chicago st paul st louis louls new orleans cincinnati memphis washington new york boston and ana all ail th the large elarge cities ast sandwith and with V virginia jr sacramento and san francisco about twenty minutes before the time timo arrives for driving the last spike spi kethe the operator will commence a time signal andall over the tho continent will be heard the tick tick tick tick of othe the battery which will as Superintendent 1 charles charies crocker crocken drives to its place the last spike echo beho the word done done dene done the pacific railroad the most gigantic epter enterprise prise of the jhb nineteenth century cen 1 completed the iron band that tiit binds hinds new ngew york and sant san sani francisco in closer embrace and which 1 ph brings england and the 0 orient rs near tag etheri etherl i A 1 zit sit ili ill 1 all the neato nero timit two sHave been bt the united states army |