Show young miner loses life in victoria gold shaft ww john J efy blaskett of lost f his life in the shaft of the victoria consolidate wai Consoli dat acif ed mine Aw if of north off on wednes 7 day of this affaT week Tva and hozack wv who nas v working ff with him mf at ff the time had a a narrow wasi ww escape si jeaa from ry death haskett was asphyxiated by a flow WW of gas WS which iv seems ay to have ai been tM ami opened i by the all lupy Is of the day before hozack was fw faff when taken w vw from ahw the mine wa but r rw dd sa As near as can ayau be learned t 1 foco tails y of the jaff accident are as ws blaskett and 5 avent lato the shaft which way has a inay feet w at the ff usual hour for work in ff the morning they ww ware ww edgag s byis ed in Sy sinking iS the 37 1 they failed to y send up any jaff waste PW the ji men working ay iy on top thought aj fw bwy perhaps they had a lot of preliminary effis rf fis work atuf at about ten 0 0 clock one of the men 37 1 signalled signal afy led ff for 06 the skip ra to be hoisted y ff yr and it 9 came up empty showing that a r something fyan was wrong arch wf don aadson 1 and george sti hw carter aft the lat ter the engineer aare corking 07 0 n the surface i and o 0 volun leered 7 to go 0 into the shaft wat As he if reached iw the aff bottom yay he found both miners unconscious from the gas and in his opinion haskett was dead at 07 that time V vhf hozack was near the bof skip and was sent to the surface f haskett ff was perhaps twenty feet below asi WS the i point theire the skip stopped and 7 donald 1 son found it impossible to got him ia out without help which was mii secured from a neighboring property jW Wiy the a gnal to hoist had been given w by who reached for V the aff bell 1 w cord reff when aff he realized that he was af losing consciousness 8 john kafy J haskett came to eureka only a week previous to the acel dent being accompanied y by mrs blaskett w w aho abent out into north gintic tintic ifft alth her husband intending V fw to open ff a boarding W kiy house at the vic torla they came here from nevada but had prep lived bif at salt lake the deceased wy was vW but ifA thirty years of age arsh and has a brother ava joseph haskett 77 who has been employed iw i w 1 d at gintic tintic miles diw for several y wy months the re ve were ww shipped to salt I 1 ake for I 1 burial kaii mav Ks ii who is in charge of the north 77 esy mining operations Opera tiona kisir 0 vi ii 9 sir brother r gawf Ka I 1 Wf J ofaf which inch le the aft north beck and lectoria lic toria cold w proper tim 13 at lois to account for the pre enee ff of gas in the www shaft V the men did not even suspect the fwu dinger it Is thought tw wr that the stormy juif weather 7 held the gas I 1 n the fw of the 1 shaft instead of al low pg it to ome to the surface |