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No. 233. TWELFTH YEAR. SKAWWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1911) PRICE, 10 CENTS
DEADLY POWDER EXPLOSION IN TREADWELL MINE
Forty-Three Mine Workers Killed By Premature Blast In
Lower Levels Of Mexican Mine ? Careless ''Powder Mon
key" Sets Off Charges While Men Are Still In Tunnel.
JUNEAU. MAR. 3? FORTY-THREE MINERS LOST THEIR LIVES IN AN EXPLOSION OF POWDER ON THE 1,100 FOOT LEVEL OF THE
MEXICAN MINE SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT.
THE MINERS WERE GATHERED AT THE STATION TO BE HOISTcD FOR THEIR MIDNIGHT MEAL WHEN THE BLASTING CHARGES
IN THE WORKINGS PREMATURELY EXPLODED THROUGH THE CARELESSNESS OF THE MINER WHO WAS GETTING THE SUPPLIES TO
FIRE THE HOLES.
THE SHAFT WAS CHOKED WITH DEBRIS AND THE RESCUE WORK HAD TO BE CARRIED ON THROUGH THE OTHER MINE
WORKINGS.
ONLY FOUR OF THE MEN KILLED LEAVE FAMILIES. THE OTHERS WERE MOSTLY FOREIGNERS.
THE MEXICAN MINE IS OWNED BY THE TREADWELL COMPANY AND IS ONE OF THE RICHEST QUARTZ PROPERTIES ON DOUG
LAS ISLAND. THE MAIN SHAFT EXTENDS ALMOST VERTICALLY DOWNWARD FOR ABOUT 1,400 FEET WITH LEVELS EVERY 100
FEET. THE MINE IS WORKED BY TWO SHIFTS AND IT IS THE CUSTOM TO HOIST THE MINE WORKERS TO THE SURFACE AT
? 1:30 EACH NIGHT FOR THEIR M I NIGHT HOUR MEAL. THE BLASTS ARE TAMPED IN BEFORE THE MINERS LEAVE AND ARE FIR
ED SHORTLY AFTER THEY REACH THE SURFACE SO THAT THE GASEOUS FUMES WILL CLEAR AWAY BEFORE THEY RETURN.
EVIDENTLY ONE OF THE BLASTS EXPLODED PREMATURELY.
THE DISASTER IS THE WORST IN THE HISTORY OF THE ALASKAN MINING INDUSTRY.
DBIH LIS I GROWS LIB
(By Alaska Nows 8ureau)
EVERETT. Mar. 3? Today an of
ficial list of the dead in the Welling
ton disaster was made public by the
local Great Northern officials. Eighty
four passengers were killed and 1?
persons were taken out of the bur
ltd coaches alive.
Eleven coaches vrefe buried by the
slide. The coaches are covi rod by
fifty feet of snow.
All attempts to move the dead bod
have been abandoned until thi
weather moderates.
SHERIDAN IS
BACK AGAIN
(By Alaska Nswi 8ur?n.)
NEW YORK. Mar. 3? Special Agent
Sheridan of the Interior Department
returned *oday from Rome, Italy.
where he went to lake depositions
' from several witness' s in the Cun
ningham coal hearing.
COTTAGE TOMORROW MORNING
The Cottage City arrived in Junear
at 9 o'clock this morning. She has
a large quantity of freight for Jun
eau, Douglas and Treadwell and will
i hardly sail north before lat this af
trnoon. She is expected in Skagway
at 3 o'clock tomorrow morning.
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TRAINS COLLI HEAR SUMMIT
A rear end collision between train
Xo. 1 and the caboose behind the
rotary engines took place five miles
rorth of the suramitt at 1:33 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The rear plat
form of the caboose was badly smash
ed and the pilot of the engine suf
ficed some damage. The air brakes
0:1 the rotary engines w?re also put
out of commission. Otherwise no dam
age was done.
Tad Hlllery and Jerry Quinlan were
on the caboose when the trains came
together. Neither of them were hurt.
Hillery was standing on the rear plat
form of the caboose when he saw
the engine loom up through the snow
a few feet distant. With a yell of
warning he jumped from the caboose
Into the snow beside the track. Mr.
Quinlan was inside the caboose and
cscap. il without injury.
; Tho accident occurred during a
blinding snow storm. The snow in
the vicinity of t lie summit was deeply
drifted and the rotary was some dis
tance ahead of the passenger train.
I'nable to see through the thick snow,
the passenger train engineer overtook
and ran 'nto the rear end of the ro
tary caboose.
As the air brakes on the rotary
wore damaged it was not deemed ad
vi3able to continue bucking through
the drifts, bo the necessary repairs
were made as quickly as possible,
although considerable time was con
jsumed, as the accident ook place in
a steep cut where it was difficult to
get at the wreckage, and the trains
rame back to 'own about 10:30 o'
clock last night.
The train from Whitehorse was
! turned back from Bennett.
RESCUERS DDE CAUGHT IN SHOE
(By Alaska News Bureau)
EVERETT. Mar. .'{?A report was
received from Wellington lato this
afternoon stating that another snow
Harry Nelson .resident manager of
the Brie and Nelson buffet at Haines.
iatne up yesterday on the Hegg and
will return to Haines on the Rustler.
Mr. Nelson says the prospects for
the summr at Haines look very good.
A dog fight between "Gyp," the
canine belonging "to the Monogram,
and "Teddy." Charlie Runner's spitz.1
slide had overwhelmed and buried ;
several members of one of the res- j
cue parties. The report cannot be j
verified. j
made things lively on Broadway
shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon.
The battle was a draw.
William Benson, soil of Jack Ben
son. will return from Shakan on the
Cottage City. Mr. Benson, who is
n native preacher, has been doing
mission work there for some time.
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H I WRECKED
(By Alask? Hvmu Bureau)
SPOKANE. Mar. 3 ? Crashing Into a
boulder slide near Milan, Wash., late
yesterday afternoon, Jhe Great North
ern east bound Oriental Limited was
derailed and ditched. ?
The wreckage caught fire and the
entire train was burned.
Two of the train crew were killed,
but the hundred passengers on board
had a miraculous escape and none of
them were killed, although many were
slightly injured.
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(By Alaska News Bureau.)
PHILADELPHIA. Mar. 3? A goner- j
al sympathetic strik of all th labor j
unions of Philadelphia will commence:
!'t midnight FYiday unless the Trac
tion company agrees to arbitrate Us
trouble with its striking employees.
About 12.r.,000 laborers will be affected
by the strike order.
FEARS FELT FOR SAFETY
OF 11 ALASKAN IBS
VALDEZ ? That Joe Garrlty, a well
known Tanana miner, and a compan
ion named Clar'.: have met with fonl
play In the Chandlar country. Is- the
belief of Capt. Haynes of the Yukon
steamer White Seal, who has Just re
turned from Chandlar.
The two miners started for the
East fork of tho Chandlar In January.
1909, to prospect a stream upon whictf
Garrlty found Bold fifteen years ago.
The section is unfrequented by white
men or Indians. Although they took
only seven months' provisions the
men have now been gone a year, and
C h a ndlar miners are preparing to
send an expedition to find the men
or their remains.
An Indian, who was known to have
a strong hatred for Garrlty, is the
only person who visited the East
fork country last summer, and al
though he disclaims any knowledge
of the whereabouts of the miners, it
is believed he made the trip to kill
Garrlty.
Haynes says there are about twenty
seven prospectors in the Chandlar dis
trict this winter. Most of them are
searching for quartz. He estimates
the placer output of the camp during
1 POD at $18,000.
ELKS ELECT TONIGHT
Skagway Lodge, No. 431, B. P. O.
!?., will hold its annual election of '
officers tonight. All members are re- !
quested to be present. ^
The Georgia did not leave Juneau
for Skagway yesterday morning, as
was reported. The Georgia left Ju
neau for the Yucatan wreck and the
mistake was made by the Juneau
cable office. The Rustler left Juneau
at 8 o'clock this morning for Skagway
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