Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....O'Conner, John 1901
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Arizona Republican-February 28, 1901
ASH PEAK CALAMITY

Details of the terrible explosion at the Commerce Mine 
were received today as follows:  At noon on Saturday 
fifteen hundred pounds of giant powder exploded in the 
mine of the Commerce Gold and Silver Mining company at 
Ash Peak.  Seven men are dead as a result of the fearful 
blast.  All were single men except J.T. Cald who leaves a 
wife and two children.

Two men who were working on the fifty foot level were
rescued alive.  Two of the bodies of those killed were 
discovered yesterday at the bottom of the two hundred 
foot shaft.  Every bone in both of their bodies was 
broken by the awful force of the concussion in the 
confined space at the bottom of the mine.  The man at 
the whim at the surface was blown fifty feet into the 
air and instantly killed.  The other four are supposed 
to have been at or near the magazine going for powder or 
returning with material for blasts.  What caused the 
explosion will never be known.  There were not enough 
of the bodies of these four unfortunate men picked up 
to make one whole man.  

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