FRANK BOWMAN
ALEX DUDER
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Cochise Co.
December 18, 1901

Shortly after 6 o'clock Friday night a fatal accident in 
which Frank Bowman and Alex Duder lost their lives. The  
Bisbee West Mine Company had been hoisting water all day, 
from their lower levels, says the Review, and the rope and 
guide had become wet and the cold weather froze the cross-
head and when Bowman and Duder had descended in the bucket 
about 500 feet the frozen cross-head broke and gave way, 
dropping the bucket and its two occupants over 600 feet 
below.  The engineer quickly gave the alarm and 
Superintendent Dwight went down and brought up the two 
mangled forms of Bowman and Duder.  A messenger was 
dispatched to Bisbee and notified Judge M.J. Brown, who 
summoned a coroner's jury and left for the scene of the 
accident.

In speaking of the accident last night, Superintendent S.W. 
Clawson of the Copper queen Company said, "It was a terrible 
accident but such accidents are not uncommon where a bucket 
hoist is used, and it was but a short time ago that just 
such a thing occurred up in Colorado and six miners lost 
their lives."

Frank Bowman is a young man about 16 years of age and has 
two brothers in Bisbee.  Alex Duder is well known in the 
Copper Queen Mine where he was employed for nearly a year 
prior to going over to the Bisbee West.