Suggested edit: Article from the "Boulder Daily Camera," August 30, 1895
TERRIBLE CASUALTY .
Fourteen Lives Lost in Gilpin County Mines Yesterday . Central City, Colo., Aug. 29—Fourteen men were drowned by the flooding of the mines on the Fisk vein at 3 o'clock this afternoon Two men were lost in the Americus and twelve in the Sleepy Hollow . Every effort has been made to reach the men in the latter mine but so far without success and there seems to be no doubt but that they are lost . The men are : In the Americus : O . Paternos. A. Aranzini. In the Sleepy Hollow : Obert Prouse. Nicholas Vegas. N . Recona. N . Narriota. B . Brockendank. John Perko. Thomas Williams. Thomas Carbis. James Harris. William Prisk. S . Vallerio. A . Brower. It w as just a few moments of 3 o'clock when the water in the lower workings of the Fisk mine, east of the main shaft, broke through in a flood, and continuing in an easterly course passed through the old workings of the G. W. Maybee property, which portion of this vein has not been worked for years. From this point it continued into the Americus mine and drowned the two Italians. There were eleven men working in this mine. Those lost were in the lower portion of the shaft .
The water then broke into the Sleepy Hollow working, which is the eastern portion of the Fisk vein and in which twelve men were engaged. Escape was impossible for the flood came without warning and the men working below were engulfed, unless by some lucky chance they managed to reach a point of safety in one of the slopes far down in the shaft which the rescuers have been unable to reach. It is not thought, however, that they are alive. At a late hour this afternoon no bodies have yet been recovered. There are no pumps at work and progress is made very slowly. Deputy Inspector A. C. Morrison has been on the ground since last night. Only a few weeks ago he made a favorable report on this property.
Contributor: Phonelady
TERRIBLE CASUALTY .
Fourteen Lives Lost in Gilpin County Mines Yesterday . Central City, Colo., Aug. 29—Fourteen men were drowned by the flooding of the mines on the Fisk vein at 3 o'clock this afternoon Two men were lost in the Americus and twelve in the Sleepy Hollow . Every effort has been made to reach the men in the latter mine but so far without success and there seems to be no doubt but that they are lost . The men are : In the Americus : O . Paternos. A. Aranzini. In the Sleepy Hollow : Obert Prouse. Nicholas Vegas. N . Recona. N . Narriota. B . Brockendank. John Perko. Thomas Williams. Thomas Carbis. James Harris. William Prisk. S . Vallerio. A . Brower. It w as just a few moments of 3 o'clock when the water in the lower workings of the Fisk mine, east of the main shaft, broke through in a flood, and continuing in an easterly course passed through the old workings of the G. W. Maybee property, which portion of this vein has not been worked for years. From this point it continued into the Americus mine and drowned the two Italians. There were eleven men working in this mine. Those lost were in the lower portion of the shaft .
The water then broke into the Sleepy Hollow working, which is the eastern portion of the Fisk vein and in which twelve men were engaged. Escape was impossible for the flood came without warning and the men working below were engulfed, unless by some lucky chance they managed to reach a point of safety in one of the slopes far down in the shaft which the rescuers have been unable to reach. It is not thought, however, that they are alive. At a late hour this afternoon no bodies have yet been recovered. There are no pumps at work and progress is made very slowly. Deputy Inspector A. C. Morrison has been on the ground since last night. Only a few weeks ago he made a favorable report on this property.
Contributor: Phonelady
Suggested edit: Article from the "Boulder Daily Camera," August 30, 1895
TERRIBLE CASUALTY .
Fourteen Lives Lost in Gilpin County Mines Yesterday . Central City, Colo., Aug. 29—Fourteen men were drowned by the flooding of the mines on the Fisk vein at 3 o'clock this afternoon Two men were lost in the Americus and twelve in the Sleepy Hollow . Every effort has been made to reach the men in the latter mine but so far without success and there seems to be no doubt but that they are lost . The men are : In the Americus : O . Paternos. A. Aranzini. In the Sleepy Hollow : Obert Prouse. Nicholas Vegas. N . Recona. N . Narriota. B . Brockendank. John Perko. Thomas Williams. Thomas Carbis. James Harris. William Prisk. S . Vallerio. A . Brower. It w as just a few moments of 3 o'clock when the water in the lower workings of the Fisk mine, east of the main shaft, broke through in a flood, and continuing in an easterly course passed through the old workings of the G. W. Maybee property, which portion of this vein has not been worked for years. From this point it continued into the Americus mine and drowned the two Italians. There were eleven men working in this mine. Those lost were in the lower portion of the shaft .
The water then broke into the Sleepy Hollow working, which is the eastern portion of the Fisk vein and in which twelve men were engaged. Escape was impossible for the flood came without warning and the men working below were engulfed, unless by some lucky chance they managed to reach a point of safety in one of the slopes far down in the shaft which the rescuers have been unable to reach. It is not thought, however, that they are alive. At a late hour this afternoon no bodies have yet been recovered. There are no pumps at work and progress is made very slowly. Deputy Inspector A. C. Morrison has been on the ground since last night. Only a few weeks ago he made a favorable report on this property.
Contributor: Phonelady
TERRIBLE CASUALTY .
Fourteen Lives Lost in Gilpin County Mines Yesterday . Central City, Colo., Aug. 29—Fourteen men were drowned by the flooding of the mines on the Fisk vein at 3 o'clock this afternoon Two men were lost in the Americus and twelve in the Sleepy Hollow . Every effort has been made to reach the men in the latter mine but so far without success and there seems to be no doubt but that they are lost . The men are : In the Americus : O . Paternos. A. Aranzini. In the Sleepy Hollow : Obert Prouse. Nicholas Vegas. N . Recona. N . Narriota. B . Brockendank. John Perko. Thomas Williams. Thomas Carbis. James Harris. William Prisk. S . Vallerio. A . Brower. It w as just a few moments of 3 o'clock when the water in the lower workings of the Fisk mine, east of the main shaft, broke through in a flood, and continuing in an easterly course passed through the old workings of the G. W. Maybee property, which portion of this vein has not been worked for years. From this point it continued into the Americus mine and drowned the two Italians. There were eleven men working in this mine. Those lost were in the lower portion of the shaft .
The water then broke into the Sleepy Hollow working, which is the eastern portion of the Fisk vein and in which twelve men were engaged. Escape was impossible for the flood came without warning and the men working below were engulfed, unless by some lucky chance they managed to reach a point of safety in one of the slopes far down in the shaft which the rescuers have been unable to reach. It is not thought, however, that they are alive. At a late hour this afternoon no bodies have yet been recovered. There are no pumps at work and progress is made very slowly. Deputy Inspector A. C. Morrison has been on the ground since last night. Only a few weeks ago he made a favorable report on this property.
Contributor: Phonelady
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