QUEER MINE ACCIDENTS
In the Mining und Scientific Press of •
October 23, lost n peculiar blasting accl-|
pent was recorded In the Deadwood |
ncws-leter. Three men In the Oro Hon
d-. shaft had lit the fuses of a round
•a holes, and climbed into the bucket. <
Owing to a delay In starting the hoist
ing engine which was on dead-center one
man became excited, Jumped from tho
bucket, his light , went out, and the
bucket was hoisted. His companions
missed him, and grubbed the bell-cord, 1
giving the Blgnul to stop; but the man
lu the shaft, not knowing that, started
to climb the bell-cord, thus giving an
other signal which carried the bucket
and two incu to safety on the lMIO-fool
level. Of course the bell-cord broke,
leaving the man in the midst of 15 holes,
loaded heavily and about to explode.
Getting In a corner ho barricaded him
self with plunks and heard eight of the
holes fired; he says he heard no more
until his companions dug hlrn out In
tending to take his remains to the
undertaker. Aside from a few slight
bruises, and a nervous shock, he was
not harmed and in a few days was as
before. The fault, in this case, was
irelessncss In not having kept the lnd
■;r extended to the bottom of the shaft.
A somewhat Bimilar case occurcrd In a
fid mine at Grass Valley. The hoist
•fused to work, leaving several miners
i a shaft among a round of holes wltn
t fuses. All but one of the men tried
> climb the timbered sides of the shaft.
; hat one, with a praiseworthy coolness,
at all the fuses with-his knife, and sur
ueded In beating the round.
In another Instance in the Lake Su
perior iron region, during the sinking
• >f u vertical shaft, the bucket hud been
• .moved to enable the eabel to lower
timber, etc., held with a chain. On
•lie occasion when the empty cable was
nlng hoisted, a miner caught hold of it.
'oollshly thinking to ride up the shaft
by hanging from the end of the chain.
• »f course the cable swayed so much
hat he was dashed against the timbers,
filing him.
At the Tiogu mine, Bodle, Mono coun
ty, California, In 1879, n mnn escaped
death In a remarkable manner. The
story as told by a prominent mining
• ugineer of New York, and verified by
lie man who was his foreman at the
one of the accident, Is as "ollows: Nino
nen of the night shift were being low
red In the cage down a vertical shaft;
• ontrary to orders the liolstmtln In the
nglne room did not throw In the eluteli
of the hoist In advance, but began to
lower the cage holding It merely by
he brakes, probably Intending to throw
In the clutch later. The cage fell rap
idly, so that the holstman could not
stop It; the amount of friction he was
able to give It only served to keep the
cable taut so that the safety catches did
not work. In fact. It would have been
better had the cable broken, ns In that
case the safety catches would have
caught and stopped the cage. The cage
and men fell 520 feet, went through a
bulkhead of eight inches square tim
ber. and dropped 20 feet into a dry, sump.
Six of the men were killed, two were
mangled and crippled, so (hat they sub
sequently died of the injuries, but the
ninth man in some miraculous way re
cclvefl only a few Insignificant abrasions.
When rescued he was speechless but not.
unconscious.
The same authorities vouch for the
truth of the following equally marvel
ous escape. In early days on the Corn
stock lode, a miner named Tom OUvr r
fell 170 feet in the Yellow Jacket shaft,
went through a two Inch wooden plat
form into a sump of water, an was
uninjured.
At a mine In Colorado, another en
gineer was being lowered In a bucket
down ^ rough exploration shaft In
clined nt 75 per cent. Ice Imd formed
i tlfe Bhaft, particularly on the peeled
poles along which the bucket slid. "io
such a degree as to constrict the open
ing. The bucket caught and stopped,
the cable piling up there. No one was
wfthln sight or hearing, and quick ac
tion was necessary. The engineer jump
ed out, clung to the timbers, kicked the
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bucket lusc, slid down the rope into the
bucket and rode on with nothing worst
than torn hands. In a recent blast of
11 tons of powder ut a gravel mine in
Sierra county, California the fume
spread about so widely that four men
were asphyxiated, and the srnell of the
fume was noticeable several miles
away. Ten tons of the charge was black /
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Similarly a great many queer acci- I
dents take place around a mine, aeel- I
dents In the hoisting to engineers cur- i
rylng transits underground, from elec
tric trolley wires, during roof-scaling,
on ladders, In sumps, around steam, air
and water lines, at loading chutes, etc.
Some are seemingly unavoidable, but
others if better understood would not 1
happen again.
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