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Team Accident- Yesterday afternoon, as one
of Leet and Blanchard's eight mule teams was leaving the
dump of the Imperial mine, and when just on the pitch of
the street below, the "brake-strap's broke, pushing the
heavily loaded wagon down on the team, and as it reached
the tunnel road, several hundred yards below, all the
animals fell to the ground, and the wagon stopped.
Fortunately, none of the animals were injured, beyond
being bruised. Gold Hill
Daily News July 13, 1868
Kicked by a Horse-Yesterday afternoon, a
little son, aged about ten years, of Mrs. McQuade,
living on the Divide, was severely kicked in the face by
a horse, the circumstances of which were as follows: He
was running about some of the hay yards, with some other
boys, and with a rope tried to lasso a horse, and in
coming too near the animal received the kick in the
face. Some men observed the accident, and picking the
little fellow up, brought him down to Gold Hill, to Dr.
Hall's office, where he was cared for by Drs. Hall and
Webber. The injuries' sustained were not dangerous, but
very severe, and the boy bled very copiously from his
wound, which consisted of a deep incision, made
apparently by the cork of the horse-shoe, on the left
side of the nose below the eye, breaking in one side of
the nasal bone, which was removed, and cutting in two
the upper lip just below the nose, and knocking out
several upper teeth. The patient was put under the
influence of chloroform, and the wound stitched up and
dressed. It
is a wonder the kick did not kill the little fellow.
Gold Hill Daily News July 13,
1868
Skull
Broken-Daniel Donelly, a miner in the Chollar Potosi
mine, last Saturday evening had his skull badly
fractured by a stone falling upon him from about 300
feet above in the shaft. Gold Hill
Daily News July 13,
1868
Horrible
Mining Accident -----About half-past eight o'clock this
morning, three men were killed in the south shaft of the
Yellow Jacket mine. It seems a cage
had passed down loaded with timbers, one of which had
caught in the shaft and was left behind by the cage. It
ended over across the shaft, so that five minutes later,
when Mr.
Campbell and two young men by the names of
Griffin and Curran, were coming up on the same cage, it
came in contact with the timber and the cable parted,
letting them drop with fearful velocity about 260 feet
to the bottom of the shaft, of course killing them
instantly. The three people killed were as follows John
Campbell was about 40 years of age and was killed in the
Yellow Jacket Mine accident. He came around Cape Horn
from Boston in 1849, in the ship Areatus, he had no
family and was a cabinet maker by trade, but always
worked at mining in this country. He was born in New
Hampshire he has no relatives on this coast. James
Griffin was 19 years of age and was born in the county
of Cork, Ireland. He was killed in the Yellow Jacket
Mine accident. Also Barnet Curran. Gold
Hill Daily News July 13,
1868
Barnet
Curran was born in Elmira, Chemung county New York the
son of John Curran, he was about 17 years of age
according to his father -The sudden and melancholy death
of young Curran, who was killed this morning in the
Yellow Jacket mine, has cast a most melancholy and
heartfelt gloom over his family and friends, to whom he
was held most affectionately dear; and as we write, his
friends are almost inconsolable. Today was his birthday,
and in honor of it his mother was preparing a sumptuous
repast for the poor lad and those whom he had invited to
partake of it this afternoon, when his labor had ended
for the day. But now end, indeed, is the scene. The poor
boy, who was full of hope when this morning's sun rose,
and wished to honor his natal day with the dear mother
and father, his brother and his friends, is now cold in
the embraces of death; And the viands of the festive
board are prepared for the funeral pile. Truly, "in the
midst of life we are in death." The ways of this world
are indeed a deep mystery. Gold Hill Daily
News July 13,
1868
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