| Show fell feet an accident occurred at the chollar mine virginia city nev donjune on june ad whereby one e man was killed and threw three seriously infused the engineer at the sharon shaft had hoisted the miners mikers on the 11 shift to the tunnel level through the north compartment the cage in the north compartment had stuck the end guides and he was taking up the slack of cable at that instant the cage ha the south com part nent went began descending rapidly the engineer immediately applied ithe full force of the brake but the headway of the descending cage could not be entirely checked before it struck the bottom of the shaft with great force men immediately descended the north compartment and found Rio R hard liard pascoe M P mcdonald luke quinlan and john mccabe me cabe piled in a promiscuous heap in the bottom of the south compartment they avci e bi ought to the surface and it was at firx thought that none of them wire were lawally lu ally injured although pascoe vomited blood indicating that he be bad been ingui ed internally he was removed to his bis lodgings where he died a few hours after arfaras As far as ascertained none of them thein had their bones broken quinlan was less severely injured tuan his companions escaping with only a bruised ankle mccabe mccage was thought to be only slight lv br alsed but the ruen men were all severely shaken up and it may yet be developed that they were more or less hart bart internally the depth from the tunnel level to the bottom of the sharon shaft is feet the cage was only a few seconds in dropping that depth the miners working in the sharon shaft reach the station 2950 feet below the surface sui face through a tunnel running in from the level of the hoisting works over the chollar shaft the men had come in through the tunnel to the foot stati station oi in the sharon shaft and seeing the cage at the station stepped on its deck to descend to the foot level at the moment when the engineer started to take up the slack of the cable attached to the cage in the other compartments the brake was only lightly set as it lacked baked fifteen minutes of the time to lower the morning shift the weight on the cage set it dropping with lightning speed richard ichard lk pascoe was a native of cornwall bog and about 35 years of age he was noted as an athlete and dad bad won several wrestling matches he had no wife or relatives residing here san ara francisco Fian cisco chronicle |
