Carlos Pillarey
November 5, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper

A distressing accident occurred at the mine of the Sentate 
Gold Company in Yavapai County on Monday night.  A Mexican 
named Carlos Pillarey was killed by a premature explosion 
in the bottom of the 400 foot shaft.  Charles H. Akers who 
was in charge of the affairs of the company yesterday 
received a report of the accident.  The Mexican and 
another miner had put in two shots and the other man 
started away.  He did not notice what his companion 
was doing but the explosion followed so quickly that 
there is a suspicion that the fuse was defective.  
The shaft has only a slight incline so that fifty feet 
away from the shot which would have gone upward, one 
would have been in safety.

The man who was killed had been with the company since 
the beginning of operations and was one of the best men 
employed at the mine.  The company paid his funeral 
expenses and gave his widow $500.