Sacramento Daily Union, 11/10/1880:
Shocking Affair at Bodie – Hoisting Works Burned and Four Men Suffocated-Miner Seriously Injured. [Second Dispatch]
Bodie, November 9th. – The names of the men who were suffocated in the Goodshaw mine this morning were Duncan McRae, Arthur Jackson, Hugh Smith and John Blake. Their bodies were removed at once to the Miners’ Union Hall, and a Coroner’s inquest has been held in session this afternoon. The countenances of the dead men were much suffused, and blood had burst out from their mouth and nostrils. All were married and had families except McRae. The family of Blake consisting of a wife and four children, who are said to be on their way here from Connecticut. The engineer, Lowell Parker, has not been heard from since the fire broke out. All four of the men were in the 600-foot level, three of them in the east cross-cut and one in the north drift, lying on their faces.
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The Daily Free Press, 11/11/1880: (abstract) Hugh Smith was buried by the Masons.
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Esmeralda Herald (Aurora), 11/13/1880:
The Goodshaw Disaster.
Following is the report of the Coroner’s Jury in the Goodshaw disaster case – the burning of the hoisting works at Bodie and the suffocation of the four men whose names appear in the report: Thursday afternoon the Coroner’s Jury completed its investigation into the cause of the death of Jackson, Smith, Blake and McRea, found dead in the Goodshaw mine after the fire, and rendered a verdict charging the engineer, Lowell Parker, with criminal negligence….
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1880 Mono County Great Register of Voters:
Hugh Smith, 34 yrs, b. Ireland, Miner, Residence-Bodie, Naturalized-9/10/1870, Lander Co., Nev., 6 Jud. Ct., Registered-10/2/1880
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Homer Mining Index, 10/1/1881: Mrs. Nellie Smith of Bodie, whose husband was killed in the Goodshaw mine at the time of the burning of the hoisting works, has obtained a verdict for $15,000.
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Bridgeport Chronicle-Union, 6/16/1906:
Early Day Happenings of Interest of Old Mono.
For those of our readers who sometime care to think of the past, we have clipped the following items from early day papers. They are reprinted word for word and should take you back to the days when old Mono was only an infant and your silvered beard, down upon a boyish face. ---
Our sister town of Bodie has witnessed another terrible disaster – the burning of the Goodshaw hoisting works at about 1 1/2 o’clock on Tuesday morning, and the death by suffocation of four miners working in the 600 level – Hugh Smith, Anthony Jackson, John Blake and Duncan McRae, and the probable death of Lowel Parker, the engineer on duty. The fire was first noticed by Superintendent Buckley, who lives near the mine, and had just retired to bed. He ran over to the shaft and alarmed the men below, and then ordered the engineer to lower the bucket, but getting no response he started for the engine and was driven back by the flames, the fire having broke out in that part of the building. The fire spread with great rapidity, and within half an hour the entire works were ?ically destroyed. The shaft timbers burned some distance down, but Foreman Ward of the Babcock engine company, by hard work succeeded in getting that machine to the works, and Mr. Ward and his company did good work in extinguishing the fire, enabling the erection of temporary works over the shaft in order to rescue the men in the mine, if alive. The men were found in the 600 level lying face down, dead. The bodies were raised to the surface and taken to Miners’ Union Hall, where an inquest was held by Coroner Deal, the jury returning a verdict charging the engineer with criminal negligence. It is thought by many that Parker, the engineer, was under the influence of liquor and asleep when the fire caught in the wood near the boiler, and upon awakening and seeing the results of his carelessness, fled from the town; but his friends believe that he was burned to death, or, in trying to alarm the men below, fell down the shaft and that his remains will yet be found in the sump of the shaft.
Of the victims of the terrible disaster, Jackson was a native of Ireland, aged 34, and left a wife and two children in Bodie; he was a member of the Masonic Order and left a $5,000 life insurance policy in the Masonic Northwestern Aid Association. Blake is said to have left a family in Connecticut. McRea (sic) was a young man, single, an (sic) native of Canada, where his mother resides, and leaves a brother in Bodie. Smith was buried under the auspices of the Masons of Bodie and Jackson and Blake by the Miners’ Union on Wednesday afternoon, the funeral being largely attended by a sympathizing people. McRea’s remains were embalmed and will be forwarded to Canada.
Shocking Affair at Bodie – Hoisting Works Burned and Four Men Suffocated-Miner Seriously Injured. [Second Dispatch]
Bodie, November 9th. – The names of the men who were suffocated in the Goodshaw mine this morning were Duncan McRae, Arthur Jackson, Hugh Smith and John Blake. Their bodies were removed at once to the Miners’ Union Hall, and a Coroner’s inquest has been held in session this afternoon. The countenances of the dead men were much suffused, and blood had burst out from their mouth and nostrils. All were married and had families except McRae. The family of Blake consisting of a wife and four children, who are said to be on their way here from Connecticut. The engineer, Lowell Parker, has not been heard from since the fire broke out. All four of the men were in the 600-foot level, three of them in the east cross-cut and one in the north drift, lying on their faces.
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The Daily Free Press, 11/11/1880: (abstract) Hugh Smith was buried by the Masons.
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Esmeralda Herald (Aurora), 11/13/1880:
The Goodshaw Disaster.
Following is the report of the Coroner’s Jury in the Goodshaw disaster case – the burning of the hoisting works at Bodie and the suffocation of the four men whose names appear in the report: Thursday afternoon the Coroner’s Jury completed its investigation into the cause of the death of Jackson, Smith, Blake and McRea, found dead in the Goodshaw mine after the fire, and rendered a verdict charging the engineer, Lowell Parker, with criminal negligence….
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1880 Mono County Great Register of Voters:
Hugh Smith, 34 yrs, b. Ireland, Miner, Residence-Bodie, Naturalized-9/10/1870, Lander Co., Nev., 6 Jud. Ct., Registered-10/2/1880
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Homer Mining Index, 10/1/1881: Mrs. Nellie Smith of Bodie, whose husband was killed in the Goodshaw mine at the time of the burning of the hoisting works, has obtained a verdict for $15,000.
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Bridgeport Chronicle-Union, 6/16/1906:
Early Day Happenings of Interest of Old Mono.
For those of our readers who sometime care to think of the past, we have clipped the following items from early day papers. They are reprinted word for word and should take you back to the days when old Mono was only an infant and your silvered beard, down upon a boyish face. ---
Our sister town of Bodie has witnessed another terrible disaster – the burning of the Goodshaw hoisting works at about 1 1/2 o’clock on Tuesday morning, and the death by suffocation of four miners working in the 600 level – Hugh Smith, Anthony Jackson, John Blake and Duncan McRae, and the probable death of Lowel Parker, the engineer on duty. The fire was first noticed by Superintendent Buckley, who lives near the mine, and had just retired to bed. He ran over to the shaft and alarmed the men below, and then ordered the engineer to lower the bucket, but getting no response he started for the engine and was driven back by the flames, the fire having broke out in that part of the building. The fire spread with great rapidity, and within half an hour the entire works were ?ically destroyed. The shaft timbers burned some distance down, but Foreman Ward of the Babcock engine company, by hard work succeeded in getting that machine to the works, and Mr. Ward and his company did good work in extinguishing the fire, enabling the erection of temporary works over the shaft in order to rescue the men in the mine, if alive. The men were found in the 600 level lying face down, dead. The bodies were raised to the surface and taken to Miners’ Union Hall, where an inquest was held by Coroner Deal, the jury returning a verdict charging the engineer with criminal negligence. It is thought by many that Parker, the engineer, was under the influence of liquor and asleep when the fire caught in the wood near the boiler, and upon awakening and seeing the results of his carelessness, fled from the town; but his friends believe that he was burned to death, or, in trying to alarm the men below, fell down the shaft and that his remains will yet be found in the sump of the shaft.
Of the victims of the terrible disaster, Jackson was a native of Ireland, aged 34, and left a wife and two children in Bodie; he was a member of the Masonic Order and left a $5,000 life insurance policy in the Masonic Northwestern Aid Association. Blake is said to have left a family in Connecticut. McRea (sic) was a young man, single, an (sic) native of Canada, where his mother resides, and leaves a brother in Bodie. Smith was buried under the auspices of the Masons of Bodie and Jackson and Blake by the Miners’ Union on Wednesday afternoon, the funeral being largely attended by a sympathizing people. McRea’s remains were embalmed and will be forwarded to Canada.
Sacramento Daily Union, 11/10/1880:
Shocking Affair at Bodie – Hoisting Works Burned and Four Men Suffocated-Miner Seriously Injured. [Second Dispatch]
Bodie, November 9th. – The names of the men who were suffocated in the Goodshaw mine this morning were Duncan McRae, Arthur Jackson, Hugh Smith and John Blake. Their bodies were removed at once to the Miners’ Union Hall, and a Coroner’s inquest has been held in session this afternoon. The countenances of the dead men were much suffused, and blood had burst out from their mouth and nostrils. All were married and had families except McRae. The family of Blake consisting of a wife and four children, who are said to be on their way here from Connecticut. The engineer, Lowell Parker, has not been heard from since the fire broke out. All four of the men were in the 600-foot level, three of them in the east cross-cut and one in the north drift, lying on their faces.
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The Daily Free Press, 11/11/1880: (abstract) Hugh Smith was buried by the Masons.
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Esmeralda Herald (Aurora), 11/13/1880:
The Goodshaw Disaster.
Following is the report of the Coroner’s Jury in the Goodshaw disaster case – the burning of the hoisting works at Bodie and the suffocation of the four men whose names appear in the report: Thursday afternoon the Coroner’s Jury completed its investigation into the cause of the death of Jackson, Smith, Blake and McRea, found dead in the Goodshaw mine after the fire, and rendered a verdict charging the engineer, Lowell Parker, with criminal negligence….
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1880 Mono County Great Register of Voters:
Hugh Smith, 34 yrs, b. Ireland, Miner, Residence-Bodie, Naturalized-9/10/1870, Lander Co., Nev., 6 Jud. Ct., Registered-10/2/1880
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Homer Mining Index, 10/1/1881: Mrs. Nellie Smith of Bodie, whose husband was killed in the Goodshaw mine at the time of the burning of the hoisting works, has obtained a verdict for $15,000.
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Bridgeport Chronicle-Union, 6/16/1906:
Early Day Happenings of Interest of Old Mono.
For those of our readers who sometime care to think of the past, we have clipped the following items from early day papers. They are reprinted word for word and should take you back to the days when old Mono was only an infant and your silvered beard, down upon a boyish face. ---
Our sister town of Bodie has witnessed another terrible disaster – the burning of the Goodshaw hoisting works at about 1 1/2 o’clock on Tuesday morning, and the death by suffocation of four miners working in the 600 level – Hugh Smith, Anthony Jackson, John Blake and Duncan McRae, and the probable death of Lowel Parker, the engineer on duty. The fire was first noticed by Superintendent Buckley, who lives near the mine, and had just retired to bed. He ran over to the shaft and alarmed the men below, and then ordered the engineer to lower the bucket, but getting no response he started for the engine and was driven back by the flames, the fire having broke out in that part of the building. The fire spread with great rapidity, and within half an hour the entire works were ?ically destroyed. The shaft timbers burned some distance down, but Foreman Ward of the Babcock engine company, by hard work succeeded in getting that machine to the works, and Mr. Ward and his company did good work in extinguishing the fire, enabling the erection of temporary works over the shaft in order to rescue the men in the mine, if alive. The men were found in the 600 level lying face down, dead. The bodies were raised to the surface and taken to Miners’ Union Hall, where an inquest was held by Coroner Deal, the jury returning a verdict charging the engineer with criminal negligence. It is thought by many that Parker, the engineer, was under the influence of liquor and asleep when the fire caught in the wood near the boiler, and upon awakening and seeing the results of his carelessness, fled from the town; but his friends believe that he was burned to death, or, in trying to alarm the men below, fell down the shaft and that his remains will yet be found in the sump of the shaft.
Of the victims of the terrible disaster, Jackson was a native of Ireland, aged 34, and left a wife and two children in Bodie; he was a member of the Masonic Order and left a $5,000 life insurance policy in the Masonic Northwestern Aid Association. Blake is said to have left a family in Connecticut. McRea (sic) was a young man, single, an (sic) native of Canada, where his mother resides, and leaves a brother in Bodie. Smith was buried under the auspices of the Masons of Bodie and Jackson and Blake by the Miners’ Union on Wednesday afternoon, the funeral being largely attended by a sympathizing people. McRea’s remains were embalmed and will be forwarded to Canada.
Shocking Affair at Bodie – Hoisting Works Burned and Four Men Suffocated-Miner Seriously Injured. [Second Dispatch]
Bodie, November 9th. – The names of the men who were suffocated in the Goodshaw mine this morning were Duncan McRae, Arthur Jackson, Hugh Smith and John Blake. Their bodies were removed at once to the Miners’ Union Hall, and a Coroner’s inquest has been held in session this afternoon. The countenances of the dead men were much suffused, and blood had burst out from their mouth and nostrils. All were married and had families except McRae. The family of Blake consisting of a wife and four children, who are said to be on their way here from Connecticut. The engineer, Lowell Parker, has not been heard from since the fire broke out. All four of the men were in the 600-foot level, three of them in the east cross-cut and one in the north drift, lying on their faces.
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The Daily Free Press, 11/11/1880: (abstract) Hugh Smith was buried by the Masons.
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Esmeralda Herald (Aurora), 11/13/1880:
The Goodshaw Disaster.
Following is the report of the Coroner’s Jury in the Goodshaw disaster case – the burning of the hoisting works at Bodie and the suffocation of the four men whose names appear in the report: Thursday afternoon the Coroner’s Jury completed its investigation into the cause of the death of Jackson, Smith, Blake and McRea, found dead in the Goodshaw mine after the fire, and rendered a verdict charging the engineer, Lowell Parker, with criminal negligence….
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1880 Mono County Great Register of Voters:
Hugh Smith, 34 yrs, b. Ireland, Miner, Residence-Bodie, Naturalized-9/10/1870, Lander Co., Nev., 6 Jud. Ct., Registered-10/2/1880
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Homer Mining Index, 10/1/1881: Mrs. Nellie Smith of Bodie, whose husband was killed in the Goodshaw mine at the time of the burning of the hoisting works, has obtained a verdict for $15,000.
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Bridgeport Chronicle-Union, 6/16/1906:
Early Day Happenings of Interest of Old Mono.
For those of our readers who sometime care to think of the past, we have clipped the following items from early day papers. They are reprinted word for word and should take you back to the days when old Mono was only an infant and your silvered beard, down upon a boyish face. ---
Our sister town of Bodie has witnessed another terrible disaster – the burning of the Goodshaw hoisting works at about 1 1/2 o’clock on Tuesday morning, and the death by suffocation of four miners working in the 600 level – Hugh Smith, Anthony Jackson, John Blake and Duncan McRae, and the probable death of Lowel Parker, the engineer on duty. The fire was first noticed by Superintendent Buckley, who lives near the mine, and had just retired to bed. He ran over to the shaft and alarmed the men below, and then ordered the engineer to lower the bucket, but getting no response he started for the engine and was driven back by the flames, the fire having broke out in that part of the building. The fire spread with great rapidity, and within half an hour the entire works were ?ically destroyed. The shaft timbers burned some distance down, but Foreman Ward of the Babcock engine company, by hard work succeeded in getting that machine to the works, and Mr. Ward and his company did good work in extinguishing the fire, enabling the erection of temporary works over the shaft in order to rescue the men in the mine, if alive. The men were found in the 600 level lying face down, dead. The bodies were raised to the surface and taken to Miners’ Union Hall, where an inquest was held by Coroner Deal, the jury returning a verdict charging the engineer with criminal negligence. It is thought by many that Parker, the engineer, was under the influence of liquor and asleep when the fire caught in the wood near the boiler, and upon awakening and seeing the results of his carelessness, fled from the town; but his friends believe that he was burned to death, or, in trying to alarm the men below, fell down the shaft and that his remains will yet be found in the sump of the shaft.
Of the victims of the terrible disaster, Jackson was a native of Ireland, aged 34, and left a wife and two children in Bodie; he was a member of the Masonic Order and left a $5,000 life insurance policy in the Masonic Northwestern Aid Association. Blake is said to have left a family in Connecticut. McRea (sic) was a young man, single, an (sic) native of Canada, where his mother resides, and leaves a brother in Bodie. Smith was buried under the auspices of the Masons of Bodie and Jackson and Blake by the Miners’ Union on Wednesday afternoon, the funeral being largely attended by a sympathizing people. McRea’s remains were embalmed and will be forwarded to Canada.
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