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Besieged By Fire

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
March
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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DKSV'KB, March 1 1 - A spooial to the Kocky Mountiiin News from White Onk, j N. M.. says: At 3 o 'vlo-k a. in. lire brokc I out in ih.j '-ïaisge rciura of the hoist house of i.ho Uld Abe mine and in a feW minutes the ptructure, a lame nul well built oue, was a niass if ftames 1c was eonipletely destroyed, locether with tli ? wooit and -niirh shops. Tha mili, sixty toet away, scaped without daiuage, Tlia woodwork ol tno kluift was buraed out nijd the hoisting machine destroyed. The damnge runs htgh up Into tfhO thóusands hui" the moit distrdssinií'feacure i-, thát ome iDin are imprisoned ín t!i dark depchs whose fateis uuknoyen. Thcre is iirtlo fri-mii) 1 Mot"' tlKii tlicy have escpetl sufifocation i : w::' nol bo possibia to enter thu mine to search loi-tiioiu unti! mino tiniü touay líocuiiag parties have boon unable i-i yot t i aet Jown farther tlrm t tif third level by the ie shaft. Nailies ni tli Iimi I itiprtsoaed. The Ninl gases from the oharred wood of the !nif t sluii have penëtrated the pper l-'Tf'is and it is impoaslble to pass them Th; ii Dom bed men are: Charles Sherrick, F. J. Williams. Frank Wilson, John Davis, G Baxter, White, Jerry Conover and W. B. Mltchell. Wilson, Uavis and Baxter aro inarricd. White U a new man and was on nis flrst shift. Williams and riherriok are old in mlnlng experiencL's and liave faced like dangers before. They are copl-headed, and if any place of safety was to le found they hare fonnd it. limikable f-'ail of % Miner. The (ire broke out while C. K. Wilkinson was goinsr down In the bucket to work. He had reached the ninth level when the hoist was abandonad and was shot down 2(XI feet to the thirteenth level, where the boeket struck, tipped and threw hini intothedrift. He was stunned, but recovered and climbed back to the second level and escaped by the air shaft. Coke Keitii, Mike Gallaghor and Anten Sowgate escaped throu?li the airshaft. This ís the only serious uiining accident since the burning oL the South HoniRstake shaft severa! years ago, when two men werc ajnothered.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News