Teller County CO Archives News.....Death Notices Aug - Dec 1897 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ronald J. Reid rreid21@cox.ent June 25, 2008, 9:56 pm Cripple Creek Morning Times 1897 DEATHS IN THE MORNING TIMES (Cripple Creek, Teller County, CO.) The following death notices appeared in the Morning Times, Cripple Creek, Teller Co., Colorado during the months of August to December in the year 1897. Some the deaths did not occur in Teller County. The date of publication is shown prior to the item(s). There is no implication that this is all that may have been published in these editions. Aug 11, 1897: Central City, Aug. 10. – Whilst Henry Kember, Dick Harney and Conrad Hackenburg were descending the shaft of the Duel mine, located in Clear Creek county, Kember was struck on the head with a rock and fell to the bottom, a depth of 675 feet. Hackenburg was also struck on the head, but Harney held him until consciousness returned and saved his life. Kember was crushed by the fall. Victor: Lucille, the 5-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Coslett, died on Monday. The funeral took place yesterday from the family residence. Aug 12, 1897: Another Tragedy at the Bloody “Hole in the Rock.” Late last evening word was received in this city that H.C. Weeks, a miner employed on the Hole in the Rock lode, in the Marigold district, had been killed by an explosion of dynamite. No details could be obtained. It will be remembered that it was on this same claim, belonging to the Norman group, that Will Carr and Frank Curtis were literally blown to pieces about ten weeks ago. Weeks has no relatives here, but has a family at Horton, Kansas. Geo. Phillips, a miner employed on the Lindsay lease on the Arequa town-site, fell down the shaft last evening and was fatally injured. He was ascending on the bucket from the bottom of the shaft to the second, or hundred-foot level. The bucket stopped and Phillips stepped off, but in some manner, instead of stepping onto the level he fell back into the shaft. His companion made an effort to save him and did catch him for a moment, but the heavy man slid from his embrace and fell with terrible force on the rocks sixty- five feet below. He was hoisted to the surface and the ambulance summoned from this city. His injuries were found to be fatal, the spine being seriously injured, and both ankles shattered, besides terrible bruises and internal injuries. His brother, Joseph Phillips, superintendent of the Dead Pine mine at Victor, was at once summoned, and came at once to the scene. The ambulance arrived, and after a slow, painful and tedious journey, the injured man was landed at the Sisters’ hospital, where the surgeons were still working with Fred Myers, the man who was shot. Phillips is a married man, his wife and children residing at Victor. Messrs. Lindsay and Parker, owners of the lease on which the tragedy occurred, were notified, and at once went to the scene, doing everything in their power to alleviate the man’s sufferings. They sent a carriage to Victor and brought Mrs. Phillips to her husband’s bedside. At a late hour last night a thorough examination had not yet been made, but it was not thought that he could survive his injuries. Aug 13, 1897: George Phillips, the miner who fell down the Lindsay shaft on Wednesday night, is lying at the sisters’ hospital in a critical state. It is thought his spine is broken, and there is but little hope for his recovery. Died. – August 12, Alvina, infant daughter of C.J. and Emma Peterson. Funeral from Fairley & Lampman’s Sunday at 1 o’clock. Aug 14, 1897: An Explosion Occurs on the Little Annie at Summitville. – Del Norte, Aug. 13. – In an accident today at the Little Annie mine at Summitville, three men lost their lives. The foreman, Robert Jones, is the only name of the dead that has been ascertained. The bodies are now on their way here. The accident was the result of a powder explosion, which caused a cave-ion, and the men suffocated before they could be reached. Aug 17, 1897: Died. – The four weeks old son of Mr. T.R. Woodbridge, manager of the Taylor and Brunton sampler, died Sunday, of cholera infantum. The funeral will take place from the family residence, 412 Main street, at 10 o’clock this morning. Fred Myers, the man wounded by Special Officer Cremar on Wednesday last, died at the Pike’s Peak hospital Sunday morning at six o’clock. From the first there had been scarcely a hope of saving the man’s life as the bullet had pierced the intestines in four places. Everything was done that medical skill could suggest, but in vain. The most that could be accomplished was to prolong life a few days. The shooting last Wednesday evening at Myers’ little grocery store on South third street. Myers had quarreled with a woman named Selix over the possession of a chicken. Meeting Cremer, who was a special policeman, the woman complained that Myers had stolen her chickens and wanted him arrested. Cremar went to Myers’ place of business, and attempted to place him under arrest. Myers at first laughed at the man, and told him to go about his business, as he had no right to arrest him without a warrant. Cremar insisted on making the arrest and grew angry when Myers refused to be taken. Myers kept saying “you can’t arrst me without a warrant, unless you see me doing something wrong. Go away and let me alone. You’ve no right to arrest me, get out of here.” Finally Cremar drew his gun, when Myers said, “you can’t take me unless you kill me,” whereupon Cremar placed the muzzle of the gun against the man’s abdomen and fired. The ball struck just below the breast bone and passed entirely through the body and was afterward found in the clothing………….At the hospital Dr. Whiting, assisted by Drs. Liggett and Cunningham performed the operation, and found that the bullet had pierced the large intestine in four places. The cuts were stitched up, but the surgeons said at the time that there was not more than one chance in a thousand to save his life. Myers has constantly grown weaker and on Saturday peritonitis set in, and the case was known to be helpless. Sunday morning at 6 o’clock he died…………….Myers’ body was removed to the Fairley-Lampman morgue, and will be buried at Mt. Pisgah cemetery today. An inquest was held by the coroner last night and the jury rendered a verdict that “Myers came to his death at the hands of Cremar, who fired the shot with felonious intent.” (Article contains more information on page 1 of this edition. Additional article published on page of the Aug 12 edition.) Victor: Maggie Brumgoole, aged 60 years, died in Victor Sunday night from kidney trouble. The date of the funeral will be announced later. Victor: A carpenter named J.W. Taylor, employed on the new sampler at Goldfield, died at an early hour Sunday morning of peritonitis. The remains were taken to Hunt’s undertaking parlors, where the body was embalmed and shipped to his family at Chicago last night. Victor: The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Benus, of goldfield, died Saturday night. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon. The remains were laid at rest in the Victor cemetery. Aug 18, 1897: Funeral of A.B., Wright. – West Adams, Mass., Aug. 17. – The funeral of Ashley B. Wright was held at the family residence this afternoon. G.W. Walch Dies. – Leadville, Aug. 17. – G.W. Walch, who was injured in a runaway yesterday and was brought to the hospital here, died this morning. An autopsy was held and it was found that his skull was split entirely open. Aug 19, 1897: George Phillips is dying of injuries received last Wednesday, when he fell down the Lindsay shaft. As was stated at the time, his ankles were both shattered, and his spine dislocated. It is mortification resulting from the latter injury that is causing his death. At a late hour last night he was slowly sinking, and was not expected to live more than twenty-four hours. James Fenlon died yesterday at the Sisters’ hospital. His death is the result of an accident which happened two weeks ago, in which he sustained a compound fracture of his right leg just above the ankle. Mr. Fenlon was driving out with Mr. Powers and some friends to look at a mining property, when the team became frightened and started to run. The rig tipped over, and Mr. Fenlon leaped to the ground, alighting on a sandy spot, thrusting the bones of his leg through the flesh into the sand. He was taken to the sisters’ hospital, where an effort was made to save the leg, but on account of the sand and dirt that had been so thoroughly ground into the wound, this was found impossible. A few days ago the foot was amputated, but blood poisoning set in, and death came yesterday. James Fenlon was of a very prominent family of Leavenworth, Kan., and was known in every mining camp of this state. He was a brother of Tom Fenlon, an attorney of Leavenworth. For a time Mr. Fenlon was in Leadville, where he handled mining property for James G. Blaine, Korns and other prominent men. He had steadfastly refused to allow the story of his injury to be given the press, as he seemed very anxious to keep the tidings of his mishap from his Leavenworth friends. For the same reason, perhaps, he told the sisters very little of his people. He has no relatives here, but his family at Leavenworth has been telegraphed, and the body will be held for instructions from them. At 11 o’clock yesterday morning a miner named Martin Dolan found the dead body of a man near the Portland mine, above the city reservoir, in an old abandoned shaft house. The body was in a sitting posture, as though the man was asleep. Undertaker Kinch was at once telephoned for and removed the body to his establishment. In the man’s pocket was found a poll tax receipt and also a receipt for a ??? of coat, dated at Park City, Utah, both made out to A.J. Galling. A letter was also found in the pocket which would indicate that the unfortunate man had been looking for work. A silver watch and a small amount of money were found in the pants pockets, expelling the theory that the man had been robbed and murdered. He was a tan, fine-looking man, well dressed in a dark suit of clothes. Undertaker Kinch wired to the officials of Park City, the following reply was received: “Have Charles Frey of the Roxbury saloon identify James Galling and have body sent here. (Signed. “Mrs. A.J. Galling.” Coroner Marlowe will arrive here tomorrow and view the remains. Charles Frey identified the remains as A.J. Galling and stated that he had him in his employ at one time at Rico. Galling was a miner by trade, bore a splendid reputation for sobriety and honesty. He arrived in Victor a few days ago from Utah and has been looking for work. He leaves a wife and two children in Park City. Aug 20, 1897: Walter S. Collins, the nine-months son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Collins, died yesterday morning at three o’clock of whooping cough. The funeral will take place from the family residence, Third street and Eaton avenue, at 4 o’clock this afternoon. Fenlon’s Funeral. – The remains of James Fenlon, whose death at the Sisters’ hospital was announced yesterday, were interred at Mt. Pisgah cemetery yesterday afternoon. The infant child of O.M. Maskadel, residing at First and Womac, was buried yesterday at Mt. Pisgah cemetery. Autopsy Reveals the Real Cause of the Death of A.J. Galling. – Coroner Marlowe arrived in this city yesterday morning to inquire into the death of A.J. Galling and decided to hold an inquest. Dr. Latimer performed autopsy and it was found that Galling came to his death from heart trouble. A telegram was received from Park City, Utah, yesterday, stating that Mrs. Galling was nearly prostrated by the news of the death of her husband. The remains will be buried today from the undertaker’s establishment. The deceased was a member of the English Temperance society and also a member of the English Benefit society, in which company he had some insurance. Aug 22, 1897: George Phillips died at the Sisters’ hospital yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. He is the man who, on the evening of August 11, fell down the Lindsay shaft. He was ascending on the bucket from the bottom of the shaft to the second, or hundred-foot level. The bucket stopped and Phillips stepped off, but in some manner, instead of stepping onto the level he fell back into the shaft. His companion made an effort to save him and did catch him for a moment, but the heavy man slid from his embrace and fell with terrible force on the rocks sixty- five feet below. He was hoisted to the surface and the ambulance summoned from the city. His injuries were found to be fatal, the spine being broken and both ankles shattered, besides terrible bruises and internal injuries. It was the dislocation of the spine that caused his death, mortification having set in some days ago. Phillips leaves a wife and children at Victor, and a brother, Joseph, who is superintendent of the Dead Pine mine on Battle mountain. Father’s Sad Mission. – Denver, Aug. 21. – John H. Kay, father of Herbert H. Kay, who was murdered on Pike’s Peak on Monday last, passed through Denver today from his home in Wisner, Neb., to bring home his son’s body. The murdered man was a grandson of O.P. Wiggins, the aged policeman at the post office in this city. Aug 24, 1897: Noted Indian Dead. – Curley Chief Dies at the Age of 100 Years. – Perry, Okla., Aug. 23. – Curley Chief, one of the most noted of the Pawnee Indians, is dead. Chief was 100 years old. During all of the Indian wars he took a prominent part. In the war in Kansas fifty years ago, between the Osage and the Pawnees, he led his tribe in many a bloody battle. Man who Rescued James Stevens of Goldfield Dies From Exhaustion. – Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 23. – William Politho, formerly a Colorado miner, working until recently at the Paul and Sullivan Mammoth mine at Goldfield, and who was of the party that rescued James Stevens of Idaho Springs, when he was entombed in that property, died yesterday. Politho worked with the rescuing party until he was in an exhausted condition several times. He has been failing ever since. He had a hemorrhage yesterday and died in a few minutes. He was buried today. The remains were followed to the grave by nearly all the inhabitants of the place. John Powers’ body, which was found south of Gillett August 21, was shipped to Denver for burial Sunday. It had been the coroner’s intention to hold an inquest over the body, but he decided that it was a plain case of “killed by the cars” and no jury was summoned. George Phillips Interment. – He Was Buried Sunday Afternoon at Victor. – George Phillips, who died Saturday at the Sisters’ hospital, was buried Sunday afternoon in Victor cemetery. There was a large attendance at the funeral, nearly every member of the Victor Miners’ union being present. Aug 25, 1897: Death of John Soper. – Lincoln City, Kan., Aug. 24. – John Soper is dead, the result of blood poisoning caused by a bumble bee sting. He was a prominent Chicago horseman. The thirteen-year-old son of Mrs. C. Carpenter of Victor died yesterday of appendicitis. The body is at the undertaking parlors and the funeral with probably take place tomorrow. Aug 26, 1897: Mrs. R.A. Whipple. – Denver, Aug. 25. – Mrs. Rachel A. Whipple, mother of C.H.S. Whipple, secretary of state, died at an early hour this morning at her residence on West Fourteenth avenue, aged 69 years. Mrs. Whipple was a pioneer of Leadville. Her funeral will take place Friday afternoon at 1 o’clock. Killed In A Shaft. – San Duval, Aug. 25. – John Haver, an employee of the San Duval Coal company, was thrown from a cage and fell down a shaft 600 feet and was instantly killed. The accident was due to the inexperience of the engineer. Well Known Victor Miner Passed Away Yesterday. – John Welsh, a miner about 55 years old, died at 3 o’clock yesterday morning at the Scranton house, Victor, of pneumonia. The deceased was the father-in-law of Bob Lyons, one of the best known miners in the Cripple Creek district. He was a member of the A.O.U.W. and K. of P. lodges. His only living relatives are his daughter, Mrs. Lyons, and his brother, whose present place of residence is unknown. He will be buried from Hunt’s undertaking parlors by the K.P. lodge of Victor. A horrible accident occurred at the Dead Pine mine, on the south slope of Battle mountain, at 6:30 last night, in which J.F. Sloss, a miner, lost his life. Sloss was working in one of the slopes when in some manner that will never be explained, his pick struck a charge of dynamite that had failed to explode in the last round of shots. The powder exploded, hurling Sloss to the bottom of the 600 foot shaft. The upper portion of his head was completely blown from the body. The body was found at the bottom of the shaft horribly mangled and bruised. In his pocket was found a watch which had stopped at 6:37 Undertaker Hunt was summoned, and the body was taken to his establishment in Victor. Coroner Marlowe has been notified and will arrive this morning. Sloss leaves a wife and one child. He has lived in the district for three years, having returned but a few weeks ago from an extensive trip outside the state. He has been married about one year. This is the first serious accident that has ever occurred on the Dead Pine. No blame can be attached to the company. Aug 27, 1897: Colorado Springs. Aug. 26. – A horribly mangled body of a man, supposed to be C. Blackford, was discovered by the crew of the Gulf passenger train, which arrived here at 2:30 this morning. The body was lying on the track about one mile north of Manitou Junction. Undertaker Law went out this morning and brought in the remains. Both arms and legs were severed from the body. The head was so badly mangled that it was impossible of identification. In the vest pocket was a memorandum book with this note: “In case of accident notify Mrs. C.S. Corse of 812 Central avenue, Indianapolis. C. Blackford.” A telegram was sent to that address but so far no answer has been received. Victor: The remains of Dennis Walsh, who died of pneumonia Tuesday at the Scranton house, were shipped to Denver last night for interment. Coroner Marlowe arrived from Colorado Springs yesterday morning and after examining into the circumstances connected with the death of J.F. Sloss, who was blown up in the Dead Pine mine, he decided that an inquest was unnecessary. Sloss will be buried today from Hunt’s undertaking parlors. Aug 28, 1897: Died In Thirty Minutes. – Denver, Aug. 27. – Richard R. Purcell, a brick contractor, 40 years of age, fell eighteen feet from a wall on the Mt. St. Vincent home on Homer Boulevard, Highlands, at 9 o’clock this morning. He received injuries from which he died in thirty minutes. Funeral Of J.F. Sloss. – Yesterday afternoon the funeral of J.F. Sloss took place from the home of the deceased in Goldfield. The funeral procession was one of the largest ever seen in the district. The remains were interred in Victor cemetery. Mr. Sloss was a son-in-law of Alderman Vivian of Goldfield. He had been married about a year and leaves a young wife and child. Victor: The ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Rorick of 108 Portland avenue, died yesterday afternoon. Elks Take Official Notice of the Bereavement of Mr. Collins. – Last night the regular weekly meeting of the B.P.O. Elks was held at their hall. After the regular routine work was done, the lodge passed the following resolutions, respecting the death of the little child of Thomas Collins: Be It Resolved, By Cripple Creek lodge, B.P.O.E. No. 316, that whereas the Supreme Ruler of the universe has seen fit in His infinite wisdom to remove from our midst the infant child of Brother Thomas A. Collins, that we, his brothers, members of this lodge, do hereby extend to our brother and his bereaved companion our most sincere condolence in this their hour of bereavement, assuring them that their loss is shared and felt by each member of our lodge, who each hope that our esteemed brother and his bereaved companion will, regardless of their intense sorrow, be able to say “Thy will be done.” J. Maurice Finn, W.M. Jenkins, J.S. Neall, Committee. Aug 29, 1897: Died. – Vivian, the three-months’-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Frame died yesterday of cholera infantum. The interment will take place this morning at 8:30 from the family residence, 120 Midway avenue. Died. – Mary Ethel, the 10-months’-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Duffy, died yesterday of cholorea infantum. The interment will take place at 2 this afternoon from Hallett and Bakers. Sep 1, 1897: Curtis G. Hathaway, director of the Bimetallic bank of Cripple Creek, died last evening at Tucson, Arizona. The news was brought to this city by a telegram to Mr. E.P. Arthur, cashier of the bank, stating merely the fact that Mr. Hathaway had died last evening. Mr. Arthur stated that deceased had come to Cripple Creek early in the spring of 1892, and at the founding of the Bimetalic bank he was made cashier. He afterward served as vice president, and from September last until the time of his death was one of the directors. Mr. Hathaway resided in Cripple Creek until September of ’95, when failing health drove him to a dryer climate. Since that time he has been in Arizona and New Mexico, in the hope of regaining his health, or at least prolonging his life. His death was due to tuberculosis. Mr. Hathaway was unmarried, but leaves a mother and sister in La Porte, Ind. He was 52 years of age. He never owned much property in this city, but it is understood that he leaves some mining property in Park and Summit counties. It is not known what disposition will be made of the body, but it is likely that Mr. Moffat will give instructions this morning, as he was an old friend of deceased and was interested with him in mining enterprises. Sep 2, 1897: John Morris, the man who was sent to the county hospital last week suffering with heart disease, died at the hospital. He has no family in Cripple Creek, and his body will probably be buried at the expense of the county. St. Elmo, Colo., Sept. 1. – John E. Crawford, a resident of Buena Vista, committed suicide at Tin Cup today by shooting himself through the right temple. Sep 3, 1897: Denver, Sept. 2. – Little Denny Ennis, the seven-year-old son of a widow living at Manchester, was drowned late yesterday afternoon while bathing in the old reservoir back of the Overland mills. Search for the body proved unsuccessful. The coroner will ask for permission to fire a cannon over the lake in the hope that the concussion will cause the body to come to the surface. Denver, Colo., Sept. 2. – Peter Carr, a miner, of Gillett, Colo., was found dead this morning at 1520 Seventeenth street. The cause of death is believed to have been “walking” typhoid fever. This fever is considered more dangerous than typhoid, for the reason the patient does not got to bed to be treated. The condition of the dead man indicates that he died form this ailment. Carr arrived in this city last evening, and half an hour later applied at the rooming house for a room. He seemed very ill. He said he had been sick for the past three weeks. He was asked to register, but said that he was too ill. He stated that he was on his way to St. Joseph’s hospital, and was asked if he had not better try to get there last evening. The man replied that he would go the first thing in the morning. This morning, when the call boy went to call him, he received no response, and he looked over the transom. He saw the body, which was dressed only in underclothes, in a sitting posture against the door. He notified the coroner, who took charge of the remains. Letters and papers on his person disclosed his name and residence. He had a member ship card of Victor Miners’ union No. 3, and a letter from his brother, 228 E. Forty-third street, New York city. Deceased was 24 years of age. His relatives have been notified. Sep 4, 1897: Special Dispatch to the The Times. – Glenwood Springs, Sept. 3., - Eleven Italians and one American workman were instantly killed just before 6 o’clock tonight by an explosion in the Sunshine mine, sixteen miles southeast of this place. The dead are: Antoine Martanegro George Dannon Louis Dannon Louis Baki Joe Martin Joe Casagrandie John Fennenie Antoine Eppic Theodore Pooles John Andriean Emil Andriean Francis McCloud. The Sunshine is a property of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. About fifty men have been employed in it in taking out an oven coal for which there is a big demand. Workmen had put in a blast just before quitting time. It resulted in a blow-out which was instantly followed by an explosion. (Article continues at length in this edition.) Died. – The two-months-old infant of Mr. and Mrs. John Krebs died Thursday of cholera infantum and was buried yesterday afternoon from Lampman’s. Sep 7, 1897: Special Dispatch to the The Times. – Victor, Sept. 6., - At 8 o’clock tonight a murder and a suicide occurred here. Henry Tillotson, a miner, killed his sweetheart, Ella Taylor, and then took his own life. The affair took place near the corner of Fourth street on Diamond avenue, east of the Florence & Cripple Creek tracks. Scores of people were in the vicinity when Tillotson began shooting. One thousand people were collected at the scene of the crime ten minutes after the affair was over. The place where the shooting occurred was comparatively dark and the few witnesses of the shooting are unable to describe precisely how it happened. Miss Taylor was walking alongside of the track in company with a man named George Brown, who resides at Goldfield. The couple had gone past the water tank at the Little Montana mine. At the point, according to one of the eye witnesses, the shooting began. A boy of ten years named Frank O’Reilly was about twenty feet away. He says that the man who did the shooting was walking with Miss Taylor and that he shot her in her right side, and that as she fell the man fire two more shots at her. The he placed the gun at the back of his own head and pulled the trigger. Tillotson engaged Miss Taylor in conversation until the water tank was reached, when he asked her, according to two persons who passed, whether she would have him or not. Just what answer she returned is not known, as Tillotson almost immediately drew a weapon and ended her life, as well as his own. The bodies are at Hunt’s undertaking establishment. Miss Taylor was a member of the Rebekah lodge of this city. She leaves a sister and three brothers living at Goldfield. She formerly lived at Silver Plume, Colo., where she first became acquainted with Tillotson. She was about 21 years of age. Tillotson’s antecedents are not known, although he is well known at different mining camps in Colorado. He was 30 years old. Coroner Marlowe will hold an inquest over both bodies tomorrow. Colorado Springs Sept. 6. – Mrs. Augusta Trebold committed suicide today by taking two teaspoonfuls of arseute. She had been visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Fugai, at the Charter Oak ranch, sixteen miles southeast of the city, but has been despondent for some time and had been under medical treatment. Tom Michael, at the Shields-Morley Grocery company, of Colorado Springs, is her son- in-law. She took the poison at 11 o’clock this morning and died at 2 this afternoon. Coroner Marlowe went to the ranch this evening and returned about midnight with the body. Sep 8, 1897: victor, Colo., Sept. 7. – The mystery that attached to the death of Henry Tillotson was cleared up tonight by the coroner’s inquest. Five witnesses were sworn, but only one of them gave any testimony that threw light on the question whether Tillotson killed himself or not. This witness was George Brown, who was with Miss Taylor just before the shooting. Brown gave himself up to the sheriff today and admitted that he was the man who had shot Tillotson and said that he had fired at him while the latter was shooting Miss Taylor. They very promptly arrived at a verdict to the effect that Brown was guiltless of any blame and was justified in killing Tillotson. The remains of Miss Taylor were taken to Odd Fellows’ hall this evening and were viewed by many people. Tonight the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs followed the remains to the F.&C.C. depot, where they were shipped for interment to Silver Plume, Colo., Miss Taylor’s old home. Tillotson’s remains are at the undertaking parlors on Fourth street and will be buried here. (The article is much longer and contains more general information.) Died of her Injuries. – Denver, Sept. 7. – After twelve hours of unspeakable agony, Mrs. Buzych, who was burned by the explosion of a can of coal oil while lighting her fire, died at 2 o’clock this morning at St. Joseph’s hospital. As the cause of her death was purely accidental, the coroner was not notified. Sep 10, 1897: Tat Gilden died at Altman about 7:30 last evening as a result of a cut received in a drunken fight with Jerry O’Donnell Tuesday night. A full account of the cutting affray was given in The Times yesterday morning. It wll be remembered that both men went home after the fight, and neither was thought to be seriously hurt. Even the next morning Gilden dressed and was about town all the morning, apparently but slightly hurt. In the afternoon, however, terrible pains set in, and medical help was summoned. It was found that he was bleeding internally, and was in a very critical condition. All operation was performed by Drs. Liggett, Crane, Levenworth and Hayes, but there was little hope of saving his life. The patient gradually grew worse until, as stated, he died about 7:30 last evening. Hallett and Baker’s wagon was at once summoned, and Deputy Sheriff Boynton was notified of the turn affairs had taken. He telephoned immediately to Marshal Ed O’Brien at Altman, and O’Donnell, who was out on bonds, was arrested and put in jail on a charge of murder. He will be held until the coroner has rendered a verdict. Coroner Marlowe was called by Deputy Sheriff Boynton, and will arrive in camp at noon today to hold an inquest. There is little room for doubt as to what his finding will be. As soon as the inquest is over, Gilden’s body will be shipped to Coaldale, Pa., where he has a brother. Newcastle, Colo., Sept. 10. – At fifteen minutes after 12 o’clock this (Friday) morning, Rio Grande passenger train No. 1 which left Denver at 8:45 o’clock, collided with a Midland freight train. They met head on two miles west of this place. The wreck is a bad one, and is at the present time in flames. A number of the passengers were killed and injured, but it is impossible at this hour (4 a.m.) to give a complete list of names. The dead and injured are: A.A. Hartman, of Harsher, Ill., wife and two children burned to death. Charles Lepper, of Clarion, Pa., burned to death in day coach. (This article continues at length in this edition). Denver, Sept. 9. – Herbert Irvine, a watchman in the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad company, met a horrible death at 1 o’clock this afternoon near the Globe smelter. He was on top of a car being backed with other cars into the smelter, when the wheels of the car struck an obstruction on the track. He lost his balance and fell between two cars. In an instant he was under the wheels. The train was stopped as quickly as possible. HE was drawn out horribly mangled and only lived a few minutes. Sep 11, 1897: New Castle, Colo., Sept. 10. – The exact number of people killed in the collision horror a mile and a half west of this place is not known. Estimates run all the way from eight to thirty. Frank S. Rockwell, stock agent of the Burlington road, who was on the train, places the number cremated at fully thirty adults, who were in the coaches. The Dead: J.F. Keenan, mail agent, of Denver. Robert S. Holland, fireman, D.&R.G. railway, of Salida. Mrs. Alexander Hartman and two sons, Hercher, Ills. James Errick, Chicago. Charles Leeper, Clarinda, Pa. William Gordon, engineer passenger train. William Hines, fireman. (Article continues at length with list of injured.) Sep 12, 1897: Instantly Killed. – Denver, Sept. 11. – At 6:30 o’clock this morning Mrs. Daniel Shannon, of 2473 Argyle Place, Highlands, opened the kitchen door of her home and told her little son, aged 3 years, to go and play in the yard while she prepared his breakfast. A few minutes later the boy was run over by a Tramway car and instantly killed. Remains of Keenan. – Denver, Sept. 11. – The first train that arrived in Denver from New Castle came in this morning at 2:20, bringing the body of postal clerk, James Keenan. Keenan was a member of the local lodge of Elks, and that body met the remains at the train. The funeral will take place tomorrow and will be under the auspices of the Elk lodge. He was Insane. – Denver, Sept. 11. – Coroner Rollins held an inquest this morning on the body of Charles F. Weissmueller, the man who committed suicide yesterday at City park by shooting and drowning. The jury found from the testimony of the doctors that the deceased was insane from softening of the brain. Sep 14, 1897: Death of C.H. Leonard. – Charles H. Leonard, a miner, died of general debility Sunday morning at 8 o’clock at his rooms in old town, Hallett and Baker conduct the funeral this afternoon. Leonard was 67 years old. He leaves a sister in Chicago, and several children whose whereabouts are not known. Altman: Miss Lydia Holland departed Saturday evening for Salida, on a sad mission, that of attending the funeral of her brother, Bernard Holland, who was killed in the wreck at New Castle. Baby’s Funeral. – Katherine, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lohrstarfer, was buried from the family residence at 110 Irene avenue. Sep 15, 1897: Joseph L. Hastings, formerly of Cripple Creek, died in Denver last Saturday morning. He left a wife and two children. Buried Yesterday. – C.H. Leonard, who died Sunday, was buried at 11:30 yesterday morning from Hallett and Baker’s. Oakland, Cala., Sept. 14. – After quarreling with his wife this morning Morris James fired a bullet into her throat and one into his own stomach. He died in ten minutes. His wife may recover. The couple came her last year from Trinidad, Colo. Sep 17, 1897: August Plym Electrocuted. – Denver, Sept. 16. – August Plym, a saloonkeeper, 42 years of age, was instantly killed at noon today when he inadvertently seized a poorly insulated electric wire on the roof of the Windsor stable at Eighteenth and Blake street. He leaves a wife and three children, the oldest of whom is three years of age. Sep 22, 1897: C.D. Judd, a miner, died at Altman yesterday. The funeral will take place form Hallett & Baker’s this afternoon at 2 o’clock. Sep 23, 1897: Central City, Sept. 22. – About 4 o’clock this morning a large piece of iron ore fell upon and killed John Lloyd, who was drilling at the bottom of shaft on the Nugget mine. The ore fell a distance of fifty feet. Lloyd was in a stooping position and was struck in the back, breaking the spinal column and causing almost instant death. The cause was purely accidental and no blame is attached to anyone. Lloyd was a single man and had no relatives here. Victor: Victor, Sept. 25. – C.O. William, the miner who was killed in the shaft at the Canon City mine yesterday morning, was buried here today. His remains were followed to the grave by a number of friends and acquaintances. Sep 28, 1897: Leadville, Sept. 27. – A telegram from New York from Mell Denison, brother of the young man who suicided here last Saturday, ordered the remains sent to Gennessee, N.Y., for burial. Denver, Sept. 27. – Charles Wilson, a Swede, aged 35 years, committed suicide at 10 o’clock this morning in a room at 320 Steele street, Swansen, by shooting himself in the head with a 38-caliber revolver. He was insane from an incurable disease. Sep 29, 1897: Central City, Colo., Sept. 28. – Last night Charles Esberhard, driver of the stage between here and Perigo, was thrown from is seat near Perigo and his neck broken, causing instant death. The coroner decided that no inquest was necessary. Ernest Bevis, aged 19 years, died from typhoid fever yesterday at Whitehorn. The funeral will take place from Hallett & Baker’s at 2 p.m. today. Charles True, a miner, died last night at 10:30 at the Pikes’s Peak hospital. He was suffering from strangulated hernia, and the symptoms became so violent that he was removed in the ambulance in the Pike’s Peak hospital. The surgeons decided that an operation offered the only chance of saving his life, but before the operation could be performed, the patient died. Telegrams were sent his brother at Leadville asking instruction as to the disposal of the body. He is said to have another brother at Kansas City. Oct 5, 1897: Willow Springs, Mo., Oct. 4. – A prairie schooner containing seven persons was run down at Dead Man’s cut by a train on the Kansas, Fort Scott and Memphis road. Six persons were instantly killed and the other fatally injured. The killed are: Philip Hootton Phil Hooton, Jr. Amanda Hootton. Dora Hootton. Mrs. Frances Malby. Infant Childe, four months old. Phillip Hootton’s wife was so badly injured that she cannot live. Salida, Oct. 4. – Five cars of the Denver and Rio Grande narrow-gauge train that left Salida at 1:30 o’clock yesterday morning jumped the track a quarter of a mile west of Cotopaxi a few minutes later, and rolled part way down the embankment of the Arkansas river, causing the death of two passengers, the serious injury of one and the slight injury of 26 others. The Dead: Mrs. Frank B. McIntyre of Altman, instantly killed. Fred W. Seyler, 2008 Cormany avenue, Cincinnati, leg crushed, died on the train while being taken to Salida. Seriously Injured: Mrs. ---- Robinson of Delta, injuries about the head, probable fatal. Mrs. Frank B. McIntyre, who was instantly killed, was the wife of Frank B. McIntyre, a lawyer of Altman, Colo., who was in Cripple Creek at the time of the accident. Mrs. McIntyre had been living in Silverton and was on her way to join her husband at Cripple Creek. Her nephew, F.S. McIntyre of 2740 Marion street, Denver, met the train at the depot yesterday afternoon and took charge of the effects of the dead woman. The remains were taken to Salida until word can be received from relatives of the dead woman in New York. It is probable that the body will be shipped east for burial. Mr. McIntyre was notified by telegram early yesterday morning of the death of his wife and his brother, F.S. McIntyre of 511 Boston building, Denver, was informed of the sad news soon afterwards. The husband left Cripple creek for Denver yesterday. Oct 6, 1897: The 6-weeks-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.B. Morgan died yesterday morning of indigestion. The interment took place yesterday afternoon from the family residence, 325 North Eaton. Robert Sterling died yesterday morning at the Sisters’ hospital of pneumonia. He was 43 years old and single. It is not known where his relatives live and the body will be held until tomorrow in the hope of hearing from some of them. Oct 7, 1897: Plankington, S.D., Oct. 6. – One of the worst disasters in the history of the state occurred last night, when seven lives were lost in a big fire in a dormitory at the state industrial school. The burned structure was of wood three stories in height, and had been but recently completed. The origin of the fire is unknown. The dead are: Tillie Hooper, in charge of sewing department. Nellie Johnson, aged 13 of Gafton, N.D. Bell Hobart, aged 9, of Sioux Falls, S.D. Bessie Kirby, aged 13, of Hot Springs, S.D. Eva Warner, aged 16 of Watertown, S.D. Christina Bergman, aged 14, of Yankton, S.D. Millie West, aged 7, of Sioux Falls, S.D. (This article continues at length in this edition.) Oct 8, 1897: Gus Anderson, a miner, fell down the shaft of the Ironmaster last evening and was instantly killed. The man had just put in a day’s work and was preparing to go home. He was on top, and was taking up some tools from a fellow workman who had reached the top of the ladder, when in some manner he lost his balance and fell head foremost down the shaft to the rocks below, a distance of 65 feet. He was hoisted to the top, in the bucket, but his life was extinct, the skull having been crushed in over the left ear, besides other bruises and contusions. Fairley & Lampman were summoned, and the body brought to the morgue, where it now lies. Anderson was a man of about 30 years, and unmarried. He was an experienced miner, and formerly worked on the Doctor mine. He roomed in Anaconda, but it is not thought that he has any relatives in the district. It has not yet been decided what disposition will be made of the body. Henry L. Pettit, 10-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Pettit, died Wednesday of whooping cough. The interment took place yesterday morning from the family residence, 421 West Myers. The body of Robert Sterling, who died Monday at the Sisters’ hospital, is still at Hallett & Baker’s. All efforts to find Sterling’s relatives have been so far without success. Oct 9, 1897: Colorado Springs, Oct. 8. – Chief Gathwright, of the police department, is anxious for information of the whereabouts of F.M. Rice, who worked in a fruit store here about August. Rice’s father is very ill at Lone Jack, Mo., and wants to see his son before he dies, the chief is unable to locate the man. Attention I.O.O.F. – All members are requested to attend the funeral of our deceased brother, A.W. Anderson at 11 o’clock a.m., Sunday, October 10, 1897. J.B. Wilde, N.G. Attention Rebekahs. – All Rebekahs are requested to meet at I.O.O.F. hall Sunday, October 10, at 11 a.m. to attend the funeral of our deceased brother, A.W. Anderson, who was a member of Gold Hill Lodge No. 1. Jennie M. Pixley, Noble Grand. Oct 10, 1897: P.E. Studebaker Dead. – Alma, Mich., Oct. 9. – P.E. Studebaker, the well known wagon manufacturer of South Ben, Ind., died at a sanitarium here today of heart disease. Baker City, Ore., Oct. 9. – This evening at 4 o’clock as explosion of giant powder occurred in the 600-foot level of the Vulture mine, resulting in the death of J.P. Maddox and the injury of several others. The cause of the explosion was the dropping of a lighted candle in a powder magazine. The coroner and physicians have gone to the scene. Oct 12, 1897: Butte, Mont. Oct. 11. – Joe Wallace was instantly killed and David McElroy fatally injured tonight at the St. Lawrence mine. The men were miners and were coming up in the cage. The engineer failed to stop the engine and the cage was carried up into the sheives, throwing both men off. Wallaces’ neck was broken. Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union No. 24 has received a dispatch from Tombstone, Arizona, announcing the death of Samuel E. Gardner, a member of their union, and immediately dispatched $25 to defray expenses of his burial there. Mrs. Gardner is in Pueblo. The union passed resolutions of condolence. Oct 15, 1897: Triple Tragedy Near Muskogee, I.T., Yesterday Morning. – Muskogee, I.T., Oct. 14. – A bloody tragedy, in which three men lost their lives, occurred twelve miles southeast of here at 4 o’clock this morning. J.D. Jourdan was returning home after a night with a sick friend. He noticed two rough-looking strangers lying by the roadside. His suspicions were aroused and he went to his brother for assistance. The Jourdans returned and asked the men who they were. They replied with a shot and J.D. Jourdan fell back dead, shot through the heart. John Jourdan then opened fire and killed both the strangers. United States deputy marshals were notified of the tragedy and on their arrival at the scene identified one of the dead men as Moses Miller, a noted desperado, and the other as a Cherokee outlaw named Watson. Oct 16, 1897: Castle Rock, Oct. 15. – Dr. W.J. Maxwell, whose death occurred at Tucson, Ariz., will be buried at this place tomorrow. The remains arrived here this afternoon. The funeral will be in charge of the woodmen of the World and the A.O.U.W., he being a member of both orders. Dr. Maxwell was one of the most prominent and successful physicians in the state. Oct 17, 1897: At 4:30 this afternoon Mike Walsh and George W. Houck were blown up while in the shaft of Kohyn’s property in Brookville, a suburb of Victor. Houck was picking out what he thought was a missed shot, when the explosion occurred. Houck received the full force of the explosion in his face. Bits of rock were blown in his eyes and it is doubtful if he will ever recover his eyesight. Walsh was standing beside him at the time, and was badly hurt by being struck by rock in his chest and legs. Houck, it is thought, received internal injuries, as well as the damage to his eyes. It is not believed that either man will die, though Houck is a married man. Walsh is single. Oct 19 1897: Died from An Overdose. – Denver, Oct. 18. – Alden Levings, the well known Denver puglist, died tonight as a result of a dose of morphine, which he swallowed this morning. Levings had been despondent for several days over money which he had lost in a Colorado City saloon venture. He had three brothers, one of whom, Sandford Levings, lives at Altman. The wife of Captain Bray, the well known newspaper man of Anaconda, died last evening about 4 o’clock. She has been ill for a week of pneumonia, and yesterday she was attacked by heart failure, which speedily terminated the struggle. Mrs. Bray was well known, and leaves a host of friends in Anaconda, where the captain was formerly editor of the Anaconda Dispatch. Early yesterday morning Mark Cann, a miner, died at the rooming house of Mrs. J.J. McGill on North Fourth street. The primary cause of his death was an accidental glancing blow from a hammer that was swung by John Graham while the two men were at work at the Little May mine on Beacon hill, last Sunday. The hammer struck Cann in the left eye, but he paid little attention to it. Erysipelas set in and it was impossible to save his life. His home is in Bettysville, Ky. His funeral occurred today from Hunt’s parlors under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias. Oct 20, 1897: Both Asphyxiated. – Mitchell, S.D., Oct. 10. – J.B. Thunnison and wife were asphyxiated in their home by the fumes of gas from a hard coal stove. Thunnison was dead when found, and his wife died without regaining consciousness. Victor, Oct. 19. – Mrs. M.E. Eaton, formerly of Denver, died suddenly of heart disease at 4 o’clock this afternoon at the residence of J.H. Holmes on Third street. She had lived here only two months. She was about 40 years of age. Oct 21, 1897: Mrs. Bray’s Funeral. – The funeral of Mrs. Bray will take place from the family residence in Anaconda this afternoon at 2 o’clock. Oct 23, 1897: The members of Mt. Pisgah lodge no. 96 will assemble at 2 o’clock Sunday, 24th inst., to attend the funeral of Brother Everest Bertieux. All visiting members are cordially invited. S.C. Stover, W.M. Edwin A. Hadley died of typhoid yesterday morning at the Sisters’ hospital. He was a single man. The remains are at Lampman’s and relatives in Massachusetts have been telegraphed for instructions. F.L. Donahue, brother of P.J. Donahue, correspondent of the Rocky Mountain News in this city, died last evening at his home in North Denver. Mr. Donahue was a mail clerk running between Denver and Grand Junction, and was one of the most reliable officials in the service. He was injured in the wreck at Cabozza Junction, near Glenwood Springs, May 28, and was imprisoned in the debris of the car for an hour. It was not believed at the time that his injuries were serious, and he took only thirty days lay-off, intending to return at that time. In a month his health began to fail. He was treated for appendicitis, typhoid fever, pneumonia and pleurisy, and finally it was discovered that he had an abscess in the lungs. He went to the hospital, where an operation was performed, and it was thought that he would recover. But another abscess formed closer to the heart, where an operation could not be made without danger of immediate death, and so he lingered to the end. He leaves a wife, two brothers and three sisters, the latter living in Victor. The funeral will take place Sunday at Riverside. The deceased was only 33 years of age. G.J. O’Brien, a miner on the Elkhorn mine in the saddle of Bull hill, was almost blown to pieces by the premature explosion of a blast at 4 o’clock yesterday. The concussion came so unexpected that others near by could hardly tell just how it occurred. When picked up it was found that the sight of both eyes was destroyed, both hands were blown off, his leg was fractured, his head and body lacerated. One of the men on a horse was sent to Cripple Creek for surgical aid and Dr. Heller and Dr. Sims went to the scene. They amputated the arms above the wrists. He was taken to the Sisters’ hospital. Up to this time the injured man had stood the amputation well, but soon he began to sink and at 10 o’clock he died. Deceased is an unmarried man. He came to Colorado from New York, where his relatives reside. He has a sister living in this city. Oct 24, 1897: Late yesterday afternoon an explosion occurred in W.S. Stratton’s American Eagle property on Bull hill, which resulted in the death of P. Lamb, and various painful injuries to John Lind, both miners. It is not certainly known how the accident occurred. The two men were working in the bottom of a shaft with a machine drill when the explosion took place. It is thought that while drilling the men struck an old unexploded shot. The men were taken to the surface at once and Dr. Chambers was called. The injured miners were removed to the Pike’s Peak hospital, where their injuries were dressed. Lind’s right arm is broken above the wrist, both bones being fractured. Lamb’s condition was considered critical from the first. His right leg and his left arm from the shoulder down were terribly crushed and mangled. Every effort was made to relieve him but the best that could be done was to relieve his sufferings, and he died at 12:45 this morning. Lamb was a young man, unmarried, and a resident for several years of the Cripple Creek district. I.O.O.F. – Members of the Cripple Creek lodge No. 101, I.O.O.F., attention. You are hereby requested to assemble at the Masonic building, on Sunday, October 24, at 1:30 o’clock to attend the funeral exercises of our deceased brother, E. Bertieux. Oct 26, 1897: Lake City, Oct. 25. – William Sidell, one of Lake City’s prominent citizens and an old-timer, died this morning of paralysis, aged sixty years. He left a large family who are at present at Bozeman, Mont. Oct 27, 1897: His Neck Broken. – New York, Oct. 26. – Andrew Hasche died this morning at Astoria hospital of a broken neck. The injury was received in a game of football Sunday afternoon. He was 19 years old. Oct 28, 1897: Denver, Oct. 27. – Con Driscol, former alderman of Denver, and for years a prominent labor leader of this state, was found dead today near the railroad tracks tow miles from the town of Sullivan. He evidently had been struck by a train during the storm. Glasgow, Mont., Oct. 27. – Two Great Northern freight trains came into collision near her today with fatal results. The dead are: Harry Neal, engineer. John Garton, fireman. Three were seriously injured. Twenty cars were consumed by the fire which followed. Oct 30, 1897: Napa, Cala., Oct. 29. – Rev. B.F. Taylor, a native of Pennsylvania, aged 70 years, for forty-one of which he has been a minister of the gospel in Iowa, Colorado and California, died of typhoid fever here today. Oct 31, 1897: Died in his Chair. – Leadville, Oct. 30. – Henry Macke, an old prospector and miner, was found dead in his cabin near the Griffin mine last night. The body was brought to Leadville this morning. A man passing the cabin of the deceased this morning saw him sitting in a chair, reading a newspaper. A few hours later he passed again, and saw Macke still sitting in the chair, but he was dead. He was 74 years of age and had long been a prospector in the St. Kevin district. Harry Hunt, who was arrested here on a charge of insanity some two months ago, died Friday in the insane asylum at Pueblo. The body now lies at McMann and Collier’s parlors in that city. It is not thought that Hunt has relatives here, as none appeared when he was arrested. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Edsall sympathize with them on account of the death of Mr. Edsall’s father, which occurred at Colorado Springs last week. Nov 2, 1897: Butte, Mont., Nov. 1. – Three fatalities is the record for Butte in the past twenty-four hours. M.O. Garry, a well known saloonkeeper, walked out of his window on to the roof of a shed at 1 a.m. He fell from the shed, one arm catching between the wall and a drain pipe. He died of the shock a few minutes after being released. William Goss, employed at the Original mine, while working at cutting timbers, was almost cut in two by a circular saw slipping. He died instantly. Dennis Cronin, employed at the Diamond shaft of the Anaconda company, was caught between the cage and wall plates and was instantly killed. Nov 3, 1897: Robert Mann was shot and killed yesterday evening at Independence by Joe Deane. The trouble between the two men was a family quarrel, and had no connection whatever with matters political. Mann was a miner, aged 47, and leaves a wife and two children. Deane is a single man, aged 30, and has for some time been operating a lease on the Finley, on Bull hill. He has an uncle in the Calumet mine at Salida, and a cousin 14 years old who has been living with him at Goldfield. Mann’s body was brought to this city and placed in Fairley & Lampman’s morgue. Arrangements for the burial are not announced. (Article continues at length in this edition.) Victor: At 1:15 p.m. a terrible accident occurred at Victor by which four men were instantly killed and one fatally injured. The accident occurred in the cut on the electric line at the bend of Fifth Street. James Moore, foreman, aged 44 dead. Mike Welch, aged 55, dead. Unknown workman, dead. Mike O’Neill, had his legs broken, his head crushed and suffering internally. Man blown out of the cut, unrecognized, injured in the spine. Man blown out of the cut, taken to the morgue, internally injured. The cut is twenty feet deep and at the bottom of the cut these men were at work. They were preparing a blast, as were also some of the men in the rocks above. The sides were insecure. For some unexplained way a terrific explosion took palce, and the avalanched of rock fell upon thee men working below. They were caught in the bottom as in a hole and the whole mass tumbled upon them. Four of the workmen were killed instantly and on fatally injured. (Article continues) Nov 4, 1897: Coroner Marlowe yesterday held an inquest on the bodies of Bob Mann, who was shot Tuesday evening by Joe Deane, and of James Moore, Michael Welch and John Carr, who were killed in the explosion at Victor Tuesday noon. In the case of Mann, Joe Deane was held for the shooting, felonious intent being charged. The jury found that the others met their deaths as the result of an explosion caused by Peter Wilson, and recommended that the district attorney bring criminal proceedings against Wilson. Nov 5, 1897:L The remains of John Carr, James Moore and Michael Walsh, the workmen who were killed on Tuesday by the premature blast on the electric railway grade at the head of North Fifth street, were to have been buried today, but a telegram was received from Moore’s relatives in Chicago to hold his remains until further orders relative to their interment were sent. In consequence none of the three victims were interred, the intention having been to bury them side by side in separate graves. Nothing has been received from the relatives or friends of either Carr or Walsh. Samuel C. Courter, brakeman on the Midland Terminal railroad, was caught between the engine and a freight car and instantly killed at Gillett yesterday. The accident occurred about 8:35 yesterday morning at the siding of the Gillett Reduction Works. Engine No. 4, engaged in shifting at Gillett, left the station at 8:30 with Conductor Joans and Brakemen Courter and Clauson riding on the pilot, on the way to the Gillett Reduction Works to do some switching there. When about half way up the incline to the reduction works they were to couple on to some cars on the siding. Conductor Joans and Brakeman Clauson stepped off just before the coupling was to be made while Courter remained on the pilot to make it. Just how the accident occurred will never be known, but it seems that either Courter’s foot slipped or his long overcoat caught on a bolt or bar as he bent over to make the coupling. At any rate he failed to make it, and was caught between the pilot bar and the car. The unfortunate man was cut in twain across the hips as completely as if a guillotine had fallen on his body. Even his coat and other heavy clothing were cut in two. Fairley and Lampman were telegraphed at once, and the body was brought to their morgue in this city. Sam Courter was a single man about thirty-five years of age. He was formerly a railroad brakeman but since coming to Cripple Creek he was employed by Williams and Welty in their livery stable. He was also interested with Harry Cain in a lease in the Chicago-Cripple Creek tunnel. He leaves a brother in Colorado Springs and a mother and sister in Pueblo. J.A. Broughton, of Fairplay, is his uncle. The relatives have been notified, and until they are heard from no disposition will be made of the body. Special Dispatch to the Times. – Salem, Ore., Nov. 4. – Otto Krahn, serving an eight-year term in the penitentiary for assault, climbed over the wall of the prison yard this evening and attempted to escape, but before he had gone 100 feet the guard shot him dead. Nov 6, 1897: Their Bereavement. – Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Carter Hutchinson will learn with grief that little Paul, their infant son, died last evening at 9 o’clock. Arrangements have not yet been completed for the burial, the time of which will be announced tomorrow. Buried Today. – The remains of Michael Walsh, one of the explosion victims were buried today. The bodies of James Moore and John Carr will be interred today. The relatives of these poor unfortunates have not taken any decided action regarding their burial and except in the of Moore cannot be found. City Marshall Armstrong received a telegram yesterday from a Denver party asking for a description of John Carr, one of the men who was killed by the explosion on the electric line Tuesday, and who had not been identified any further than by the papers found on his person. A description was wired, but no answer has yet been received. The body will be buried tomorrow in potters’ field. Nov 7, 1897: Paul Hutchinson. – Little Paul, the nineteen-days-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carter Hutchinson, was buried at Mt. Pisgah cemetery yesterday afternoon. Nov 9, 1897: A horrible and somewhat peculiar accident occurred last night at 7 o’clock on the Anaconda and Victor road near the Santa Rita mine, in which Leon Dusess of Victor met a frightful death. Dusess, who lived east of Victor near the Independence extension, drove to Cripple Creek yesterday afternoon to make some purchases. He loaded his wagon with groceries and started home. at 7 o’clock A.J. Crosson of the Elkton mine started for Elkton on horseback. At the hill near the Santa Rita he met a team without a driver. He stopped the horses and was horrified to discover a man lying half across the doubletrees with his head under the horses heels. Mr. Crosson secured assistance and the body was extricated. There was no sign of life remaining and the corpse was place din the wagon and brought to Victor, where it was left at Hunt’s undertaking establishment. It was identified as the body of Leon Dusess by his brother. Death was caused by two deep cuts on the head. The deceased was 42 years of age and is survived by a wife who is heartbroken by the sudden calamity which has befallen her. Details of the accident can only be surmised, but it would appear that Dusess had fallen over the dashboard and was stunned by the fall. Mrs. Westcott, and elderly resident of Goldfield, died yesterday. The remains were embalmed at Hunt’s and will be shipped too her former home in Illinois. Mrs. Elizabeth Schuch, mother of Philip Schuch, Jr., died yesterday at Pike’s Peak hospital, of cancer. Her remains were shipped to Del Norte last evening for interment. Her son, Philip Schuch, Jr., and his two sisters accompanied the remains. Mrs. Schuch has been a resident of Colorado for more than twenty years. Nov 10, 1897: Merriest of Merry-Makers Meets Death on a Dancing Floor. – Helena, Mont., Nov. 9. – Henry Metcalf fell dead at Marysville this morning early while waltzing at a ball given by the local camp of the Woodmen of the World in honor of F.A. Falkenburg of Denver, the head consul of the order. He was one of the merriest of the merry-makers, and suddenly, without a word of warning, sank to the floor and died, before the strains of the music had ceased. HE had ruptured a blood vessel as a result of over-exertion. Mrs. M.J. Graham, one of the teachers of the city schools, who has been absent for some week attending the funeral of her daughter, Mary, at Pueblo has returned and resumed her duties in the school room. Goldfield, Nov. 9. 0 Morphine has taken another victim into the next world. The subject is Robert Darnell of Oklahoma City, O.T. He had resided here for some time and has been in ill health, suffering intense pain from his disease. This, with his poor financial condition, is thought to be the direct cause of the suicide. Darnell was about 36 years of age and was irregular in his habits, which was the cause of his not being found until several hours after life was extinct. After the discovery the body was taken to Hunt’s undertaking establishment at Victor. Coroner Marlowe, who was in Victor investigating the death of Leon Dusess, decided that no inquest would be necessary. The undertaker is awaiting instructions from Darnell’s parents at Oklahoma City as to the disposition of the body. Nov 11, 1897: Glendive, Mont., Nov. 10. – Thomas Wilson, residing on a ranch two miles north of this city, was shot and instantly killed this morning by Andrew Brown, a neighbor. The shooting resulted from a quarrel between the two men over the cutting of timber. Wilson leaves a widow and six children. Victor: The remains of Mrs. Westerman, who died Monday night, were shipped to her relatives at Pekin, Ill. Nov 12, 1897: Danny Doyle Dead. Dan Doyle of Aspen, a young man well known and highly respected there, died yesterday at Altman of typhoid-pneumonia. He had returned about two weeks ago from a trip through British Columbia, and was almost immediately stricken with disease. He was a man of most exemplary habits, and leaves a host of friends in Aspen and elsewhere. The body will be sent back to Aspen for burial. Died. – Mrs. Hattie Smith, living on Warren avenue, near A, died yesterday morning of Septicemia. Her remains will be sent to Canon City for interment. Nov 16, 1897: Kirk Davis, an ore hauler, was killed yesterday by being run over by his wagon. Davis was in the employ of Ben Franklin at Elkton and was driving one of Franklin’s teams. He had been to the Elkton mine and was hauling a load of ore from the Stewart lease. At a point about half way between the Moose and the Elkton mines the road is very rough and cut up by the wheels of ore wagons. In some manner Davis slipped from the seat and fell in front of the wheels. He alighted in a sitting posture directly in front of the right wheel, which caught him instantly. The wheel did not pass over his body but the axle was so near to the ground that his head was forced down against his stomach. The team stopped, and death resulted from suffocation. No bones were broken, so far as could be learned from a superficial examination, but the face and chest were black from the pressure which shut off respiration and circulation. The body was found by W.H. Dently and A. Selden perhaps twenty minutes after the accident. They at once telephoned for a Fairley and Lampman wagon and the body was brought to this city. Davis was about 22 years of age and unmarried. His father John Davis, residing at Howards, Colorado, has been notified and the body will be held awaiting instructions from him. Davis has been making his home with his employer at Elkton. South Bend, Ind., Nov. 15. – Charles A. Spencer, manager of the Postal Telegraph company’s office at Deadwood, S.D., purposely shot himself last night in the M.E. church at Westville, Ind., where until recently he was manager of the Postal company. The deed was committed while the congregation was singing, and much excitement followed. His parents reside in Bellmore, O. Despondency and alleged financial troubles are assigned as the cause. Clinton, Ia., Nov. 15. – Mrs. Henry Paysen burned to death here today in a vain effort to save her four-year-old daughter, Amelia, from the same fate. The child’s clothing ignited from a bonfire near which she was playing, and her mother, in an effort to extinguish the flames caught the little one in her arms and held her there until both were fatally burned. Nov 17, 1897: Leadville, Nov. 16. – Thos. S. Cassidy and William Gallagher were terribly injured by the explosion of a missed shot in the Big Six mine this morning. Cassidy had his right arm blown off, his left hand mutilated, and will lose one or both of his eyes. Gallagher was badly cut in the face and both eyes were seriously injured. Cassidy can hardly recover. The men were alone when the accident occurred and in spite of their injuries dragged themselves 500 feet to the shaft, when they signaled the engineer. Nov 18, 1897: He May Die. – Leadville, No. 17. – Cassidy and Gallagher, who were injured at the Big Six mine yesterday, by dynamite, are in good condition today, and Gallagher may recover. Cassidy will lose his sight and may yet die. Died. – P.M. Reynolds, a mining man who has been in the district for three years, died yesterday at 2 p.m. of typhoid-pneumonia. Mr. Reynolds was 38 years old. He leaves a wife. He was a member of the United Moderns, who will direct his funeral, which will take place at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Nov 20, 1897: Denver, Nov. 19. – Colorado pioneers and old residents of the state will learn with regret of the death last night of Judge William M. Slaughtter, of Loveland. His demise was occasioned by pneumonia. Many Denverites will recall Judge Slaughter, who settled early in the ‘60s in Gilpin county, and who, as a stalwart Democrat, assumed a prominent position in politics. As early as 1866 he was elected mayor of Central City, and was a member of the territorial legislature in 1867 and 1868. At one time he practiced law in Denver, but passed most of his life in the West, in Gilpin and Boulder counties. He had attained the advanced age of 72 years. Nov 21, 1897: N.O. Johnson, well known to the Cripple Creek district and to half the state as the head of the firm of N.O. Johnson and sons, died last evening at the Grand hotel in Pueblo, of heart failure. Mr. Johnson was born in Vermont sixty years ago. He started in business in Colorado Springs twelve years since, and today the firm has large and prosperous branches in both this city and Pueblo. The Cripple Creek store was opened in 1892, and is one of the very oldest in the district. The firm’s interests here will be looked after by the local manager, Mr. John P. Pitkin. The remains will be taken to Mr. Johnson’s home at Colorado Springs for interment. Nov 26, 1897: Victor, Nov. 25. – Frank Malone, working in the slope in the third level of the Gold Coin mine, was killed by a falling rock at 11:30 tonight. His skull was fractured and he died within fifteen minutes. Three physicians, Drs. Booth, McKenzie and George, were in attendance. Malone was 40 years old, and leaves a wife and two children. HE had worked in the mine for thirteen months. He was a member of the Miners’ union. The body was taken to the Victor undertaking parlors. Nov 27, 1897: Coroner Marlowe was in Victor yesterday and decided that no inquest would be necessary on the body of Frank Malone, who was killed in the Gold Coin mine Thursday. The remains will be sent to Oskaloosa, Ia., in charge of a brother, who is expected here today. Nov 30, 1897: W.H. Harter, aged 33, died at the residence of William Sexton at 7:15 last night of hart failure brought on by pneumonia. Mr. Harter had been to the district for the last four years, one year of which he spent in Cripple Creek. The rest of the time he has been tending bar at the Monarch saloon. He was born and raised in Salt Lake City, where his parents reside. They have been notified of the death. Victor: Frank Malone, the miner who was killed in the Gold Coin shaft Thanksgiving night, was buried in Victor cemetery yesterday. The Miners’ union attended the funeral. Dec 1, 1897: Rebecca Townsley, aged 82, died of old age yesterday at her residence in West Cripple Creek. She will be buried today by Undertaker Oscar Lampman. Silver Cliff, Colo., Nov. 30. – Colonel John Skevington, ex-county assessor, and formerly the commander of the E.,V. Sumner post, G.A.R., died at 12:30 this afternoon. He served four years in the Union army and was universally respected in the community. He died of pneumonia. Mrs. J.B. Gibbs, residing at 212 South Second street, died suddenly yesterday morning at about 7 o’clock. She had been slightly indisposed for several days, but there was nothing to indicate that her condition was serious. Dec 2, 1897: Leadville, Dec. 1. – Charles Cook, a restaurant waiter, is dying from the effects of a forty-grain dose of morphine. Domestic troubles drove Cook to the act. Victor: Mrs. J.D. Gibbs was buried yesterday from Hunt’s parlors. She leaves three small children. Her father is expected home from the Black Hills in a few days. Dec 4, 1897: Victor, Dec. 3. – A suicide was committed in Victor tonight. William Grimes was the victim. One shot fired from a revolver caused instant death. He had finished a contract yesterday on the Santa Rita mine, for which he received a check for $97. The check was cashed about the middle of the afternoon, after which Grimes had several drinks with friends. He then passed the evening with Frank Calley, a fellow workman and neighbor. Between the hours of 9 and 10 o’clock Grimes returned to his home near the Portland mine, on Battle mountain. His family, consisting of a wife and two children, were the only ones at home. He has frequently had trouble with them. The news of the act was first given by his little girl, who was heard screaming by the neighbors. Mr. Calley, one of the neighbors, rushed from his house and found the child, who was so frightened she could not tell what had happened. Calley went to the house, where he found the wife in hysterics. She could not explain anything, but pointed to the kitchen. He then entered the kitchen, and found his friend Grimes lying in a pool of blood on the floor, with the weapon beside him. Calley picked the revolver up, and at once notified the police. Officers Fitzpatrick and Clark went to the scene and asked for an explanation from the wife. She stated that Grimes had come home about half past nine, after she and the children had retired to bed, and began to quarrel with her. She tried to appease him, but he would not listen, and finally threatened to whip her. This he did not do, but left them and stepped into the kitchen saying: “Life with you is not worth living.” He placed the gun to the back of his head and fired the fatal shot. The police notified the Victor undertaking house, and his body was taken away to await a coroner’s inquest. On examination it was ascertained that the bullet had passed entirely through the head, coming out above the right ear. Grimes was 38 years of age, and in splendid health. His friends say he was a very intelligent man, and had good financial prospects. He came here from Leadville about three years ago, and has had steady employment since. At one time he was vice president of the local Miners’ union in which order he was highly esteemed. His friends claim that they never overheard him say a word of being tired of life, but was always fearless. Suspicion and doubt are held by his friends whether or not his life was taken by his own hand. The police are working on the case, and it is probable that sensational developments will follow. The dead man’s father resides at Loveland, and a brother in Denver. Both have been notified of the tragedy. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 3. – A wreck occurred on the Great Norther railway this morning near Druham, Mont. The east-bound passenger train was being pulled by two engines on account of drifting snow, when, entering a cut, the engines suddenly left the track and fell upon their sides. The accident is supposed to have been caused by a broken rail. Engineer William Clark of Kalispell, Mont., was instantly killed and Engineer Nelson of Havre, Mont., had both legs broken above the knee and was otherwise badly injured. The firemen were both hurt, but not seriously. Three cars left the track, but the passengers escaped with a shaking up. William Tehan was instantly killed yesterday at noon by falling down a shaft on the Mary McKinney property at Anaconda. The dead man was one of the owners of the Tehan and Dolan lease on the north end of the Mary McKinney, their block being situate on the north side of Squaw gulch, away up the slope of Gold hill. The lessees have worked the property for some time, and have sunk a shaft 100 feet in depth. Yesterday after the noon hour Tehan was being lowered to his work in the bucket. He was nearly half way down the shaft when, without warning, the handle of the windlass broke and he fell like a plummet to the bottom, fifty feet below, the great heavy windlass careening down the shaft after him. His comrades hastened down the ladder to render him what assistance they could, but he was past all human help, or need of it. He was dead. He might perhaps have survived the terrible fall, but the heavy windlass, falling from the collar of the shaft a hundred feet above, struck him fair over the heart, crushing in his ribs and causing instant death. Undertaker Lampman was telephoned for and went immediately, and brought the remains to this city. Dr. Whiting was summoned, and an examination made of the body. Tehan had suffered no material injury beyond the awful blow over the heart, which had carried a painless death with it. Tehan was a man of perhaps 40 years of age, and without a family. He roomed at the Dallas house in this city. He has a brother and sister in Denver, and they have been wired. The body will be held at Fairley & Lampman’s awaiting their instructions. Dec 5, 1897: Denver, Dec. 4. – L.D. Rondebush, the well known mine operator who was fortunate in several Leadville deals, is dying in this city of a complication of diseases. In 1892 and 1893 he went to Cripple Creek and was identified with ex-senator Dorsey and was with him in the bond and lease on the Gold Dollar on Beacon hill. He also had offices in Colorado Springs and was a member of the exchanges of that city. He operated with Mr. Moffat, principally in the manipulation of stock. He was born in Blooming Valley, Pa., and made a large fortune in the oil fields in that state. He leaves a son and a daughter, the former in Paris and the latter in London. Dec 8, 1897: Denver, Dec. 7. – Michael Spangler, a prominent mining man and capitalist of this city, was fatally hurt today in an accident in the Crown Point and Virginia mine, at Central City, of which he is receiver. He was ascending the shaft by means of the ore bucket, when the bucket swung to one side, crushing Spangler against the timbers of the shaft. He died soon after being taken from the bucket. Spangler came to Colorado twenty years ago and made a fortune in real estate investments and mining. Dec 9, 1897: Word was received in the city yesterday that Jack Lefoe, brother of Frank Lefoe, of this city had been murdered near Prescott, Ariz. There were no particulars as to the manner of his death, except that it took place at a point known as Chapparal gulch, near that city. Mr. Lefoe lived in this city about two years ago and resided for about a year in the city of Anaconda and Victor. His parents reside in Rouse, Colo. Gem, Idaho, Dec. 8. – An explosion in the Helena-Frisco mine this morning instantly killed Joseph McNamara and Joseph C. Bowes. the accident happened just before coming off shift and left no living witnesses. Both men were frightfully mangled, one being entirely unrecognizable and the other had only one side of his face left intact. Both were young men, 25 years or under. Wallace Vincent of Cripple Creek is Dead. – Denver, Dec. 8. – Wallace Vincent, who was interested in mining in Cripple Creek some three years ago, committed suicide in San Francisco Saturday last. Vincent went into several ventures in the district, but they failed to pay him, and he struck out for California. His career and the manner of his death are interesting. He was a son of the composer of the opera, “Maritana.” The father died in 1865, and two years afterwards his son began his wanderings, going to Australia, where he lived for ten years, South America, South Africa, Canada, and finally the United States. He came to Colorado during Cripple Creek’s early excitement, and was a resident there about a year. When the Merchants’ National bank started in Seattle, he became its cashier, but after the big fire he went to California and took up several mining claims in various parts of that state and Mexico, finally becoming connected with the Zantigraph Gold Mining company of Newcastle, as bookkeeper and assistant cashier. It had been his habit of late to visit San Francisco every year, and he had been there for five months when he died. Saturday last, according to the San Francisco papers, he went to the French hospital for an operation. The operation was successful and on the same night he swallowed a quantity of morphine. All efforts to save him were futile. After his death it transpired that two days before he had made all arrangements for his funeral, even to have his body cremated. Vincent was in poor circumstances. Dec 10, 1897: W.H. Nimmo received word last night that his mother, Mrs. Andrew Waddell, died suddenly in the city of Buffalo, N.Y., where she had lived since 1850, one of the most honored and respected ladies of the community in which she was so well known. She was the wife of a Colorado pioneer mining man, who operated in this state in the early days. News of the death of Mrs. Waddell was unexpected, and consequently a great shock to Mr. Nimmo, whose friends have extended to him their sincerest sympathy in his hour of grief. Dec 11, 1897: Ed Hanley was instantly killed yesterday while at work on the Bed Rock, by having a bucket of rock drop on his head. Hanley and his partner, J.G. Stacey, have a lease on the Bed Rock, located near the saddle of Globe hill about a quarter of a mile above the C.O.D. mine. The two were working the lease alone, and have sunk their shaft to a depth of 50 feet. IN lieu of a windlass they have fitted up a whip, and have been hoisting the rock with a rope and pulley. Yesterday afternoon they were working above, and Hanley filling the bucket at the bottom of the shaft. Shortly after 1 o’clock Hanley filled the bucket and gave the signal to hoist away. Stacey started the horse, and the bucket started on its way to the surface, loaded with hundreds of pounds of rock. When about half way up the shaft, suddenly and without warning, the ring on the singletree broke and the bucket with its heavy load of rock fell back down the shaft. Hanley, who had gone to work digging up rock and dirt for the next bucketful, was taken unawares. The bucket of rock came plunging down the shaft while he was stooping over his work, and struck him an awful blow on the right side of the back of the head, crushing in his skull and causing instant death. Stacey was, of course, horrified and greatly excited at the sudden and tragic death of his partner. He at once summoned help, and the dead man was hoisted to the surface. Fairley and Lampman’s wagon was called and the body removed to the morgue. Edward Hanley was a single man, 33 years of age, a native of South Carolina. He had no relatives here so fare as is known, but lived in a private rooming house. The body will be held awaiting the result of an effort to find his relatives. Kate Cassidy Murdered. – Two Women with Revolvers – Creed, Colo., Dec. 10. – A sensational tragedy was enacted here this morning, as a result of which one woman lies dead at the hands of another woman. The tragedy occurred in the house of a woman named Mrs. Joseph Barnett, alias Ardeen Hamilton, who conducts a notorious resort. Mrs. Barnett has recently had trouble with an inmate of the place named Kate Cassidy. The trouble came to a head this morning at an early hour, when the two women had a violent quarrel, the exact nature of which is not at this time known. As a result Mrs. Barnett secured possession of a 38-caliber revolver, and, it is said, renewing the quarrel, shot the other woman, who had in the meantime armed herself. The shooting aroused the neighborhood and officers were summoned. Kate Cassidy was found to be fatally shot, expiring a few moments after the shooting occurred. The Barnett woman gave herself up, admitting that she shot the other. She was placed in the custody of Constable Streames. When seen by a newspaper man, Mrs. Barnett admitted the shooting, saying; “It was in self-defense; my life was in danger.” further than this she refused to talk, saying she would await the haring. Coroner Simpson will hold an inquest. Dec 12, 1897: Denver, Dec. 11. – In a struggle against death extending over fifty-six hours, Samuel B. Morgan, one of the pioneers of the inter-mountain region, yielded up his life this morning just nine minutes before 5 o’clock. Sedalia, Colo., Dec. 11. – A.H. Stevens a prominent citizen of Douglas county died at noon today from the effects of an accident last Saturday. He and his brother had taken a contract to put in a bridge for the county, and in cutting down an embankment, a portion of it fell in and struck him in such a manner that he sustained internal injuries, resulting in his death today. Dec 14, 1897: Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 13. – Charles Birmbaum, aged 55 years, once a wealthy mine-owner, shot and killed himself at his home here today, being despondent over business reverses and ill health. Mrs. Birmbaum, who is blind, was the first to discover her husband after he had shot himself. She had entered the room, and, failing to receive any reply to a question, placed her hand on his head. One of her fingers touched the spot where the bullet had entered Birmbaum’s forehead. She screamed and fainted as she realized what had taken place. He died before medical aid could reach him. Birmbaum was a Hebrew who amassed a fortune at Sonora, Mexico, and Pueblo, Colorado, which had slipped away from him gradually. He recently came here from Pueblo to live. Birmbaum has a married daughter, Mrs. A.E. Jennings, of Atchison, Kan. Marigold, Colo., Dec. 13. – At an early hour this morning Martin Cannon died of pneumonia after a brief illness. He was 48 years of age and had lived in the district a long period of years. His remains have been taken to the Victor undertaking parlors. The funeral arrangements have not as yet been completed. Deceased has a son and other relatives living in the district. George W. Church died yesterday at the Pike’s Peak hospital from blood poisoning, caused by the extraction of one of his teeth some three weeks since. An operation was performed and large quantities of pus removed from his jaw, but to no purpose. Deceased was a native of Missouri, but has been in Colorado since 1860 his father being one of the pioneer settlers of Golden, where both are well known. He was about 45 years of age. Dec 17, 1897: Victor: The funeral of John Watson will be held from the hall of Victor lodge No. 26, I.O.O.F., at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning under the obsequies of the order. The Rev. G.W. Barr will conduct the services. Dec 18, 1897: Denver, Dec. 17. – A special to the News from Ouray, Colo., says an accident occurred at the Congress mine this morning in which William Jefferson, a well known miner, was instantly killed. The Congress is a copper property, owned by Connecticut capitalists. The accident this morning was due to a cave-in. Jefferson’s skull was crushed. A man named Cummins was slightly injured. At 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the body of John Watson was conveyed from Hunt’s undertaking establishment to the hall of Victor lodge No. 26, I.O.O.F., where the funeral services were held, conducted by the Rev. G.W. Brown. The line of march was then taken up to the cemetery, where the body was laid to rest, receiving the impressive rites of the order he loved so well in life. Dec 19, 1897: Yesterday morning Mr. J.T. Murray, who has been a resident of this city for the last few years, departed this life. Mr. Murray had been ailing only since Monday of this week, and the news of his death came as a sudden shock to his numerous acquaintances and friends throughout the district. He had been out in the hills on some business for the Midland sampler, with which he was connected, and had contracted a severe case of pneumonia, which was the cause of his demise. The funeral will take place today at 2 o’clock from Fairley & Lampman’s undertaking parlors. He died at the National hotel, where he has been located during his residence here. The remains of Samuel Harris, who died last Wednesday, were laid at rest in the Victor cemetery yesterday. Mr. Harris was one of the oldest residents of the district, having come here in the fall of 1891. Breckinridge, Dec. 18. – Colonel Sam Simpson died today in the county hospital, from neglect and starvation. He was too proud to ask for help. He had been refused a pension. He brought his regiment in from the battle after Colonel Mulligan was killed at Chickamauga, and always proved himself a real American patriot. He has lived in Kokomo a number of years and when his friends learned his condition it was too late to save his life. Dec 21, 1897: Funeral services were held yesterday over the remains of J.P. Murray, who died of pneumonia Saturday last. Rev. Father McCabe officiated, and the ceremonies were attended by a large concourse of friends, chiefly miners, mining and smelter men. After the discourse, which was brief and informal, the remains were sent to Denver, where regular services will be held. From there the body will be sent to Philadelphia where relatives will receive it and give it interment. St. Joseph, Mo., Dec. 20. – Jack McCune, a gambler, who killed William M. Albin, on the morning of August 6, committed suicide in the county jail this morning by taking morphine. McCune had frequently said that he would never stand trial for the crime. C.M. Peterson, a miner living at 122 Midway, died Monday of paralysis, and was buried yesterday from the Methodist church. Mr. Peterson was stricken with paralysis nearly three months ago. Victor: Elmer Roberts, aged 57, died Sunday morning in this city and was buried at 2 o’clock yesterday, the Victor Undertaking company having charge of the funeral. Card of Thanks. – We desire to return our sincere thanks to the friends who so kindly assisted us in the burial of our beloved husband and father. Mrs. E.A. Peterson and Family. Dec 22, 1897: The funeral of Miss Sarah J. Ross was held yesterday at the parlors of Fairley & Lampman, Rev. Father McCabe delivering the sermon. The interment occurred at Mt. Pisgah cemetery. Miss Ross has no relatives here, her parents being residents of Nova Scotia. Dec 23, 1897: Thos Haley, a man 63 years of age, was found dead in his room at the Victor rooming house yesterday afternoon by one of the inmates of the house. The police were notified and they removed the body to Hunt’s undertaking parlors to await the inquest of the coroner today. Last Sunday, notwithstanding his age, he walked from Cripple Creek to Gillett and then over to Victor. Mr. J.J. Brown of Denver, knew Haley well and is acquainted with his family. It is said that he has relatives in Pennsylvania. Dec 24, 1897: Charles Richards, a miner living at 407 Warren avenue, died very suddenly of heart failure yesterday. He had gone to his work as usual in the morning, but soon after returned home, stating that he did not feel well enough to work. One hour later he was dead. The funeral will take place today from his home. The Lampman Undertaking company have charge of the funeral arrangements. Coroner Marlowe was up from the Springs yesterday morning and after viewing the remains of Thomas Haley, decided that an inquest was not necessary. Dec 25, 1897: Philadelphia, Dec. 24. – Four children named Narbelsa were suffocated by smoke this morning in an attic room occupied by the family, at Seventeenth and Christmas streets. Their parents were away when the house caught fire from an overheated stove, and before the little ones could be rescued they were rendered unconscious by smoke, and all were dead when carried out of the house. Their names are: John Narbelsa, aged 8. Constantine, aged 5. Mary, aged 3. Caswara, aged 1. The fire was quickly extinguished. The pecuniary loss was small. Died – Sunday, Dec. 19, 1897, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Dorn, Mr. Charles W. Peterson, aged 60 years, of paralysis. The funeral took place at 2 p.m. Monday, from the M.E. church, Rev. Horn officiating. Deceased was born in Frederickton, New Brunswick, in 1837, and was married to Miss Elizabeth A. Phillips in 1857. The family removed to Illinois in 1877, and while in that state he became a member of the M.E. church. Mr. Peterson was the father of ten children, nine of whom survive, four residing in Cripple Creek. Leadville, Dec. 24. – James Vivian, a well known Colorado mining man, died suddenly this morning as a result of hemorrhage. He has been ill for the past years, but was able to look after his business. He was about town yesterday. A few days ago he bought a handsome residence in Denver, intending to make that city his permanent home. HE had extensive mining interests in Mexico. All member of Pike’s Peak council No 13, Jr. O.U.A.M., are requested to meet at I.O.O.F. hall and attend the funeral of Brother Charles Richardson. (Note the different spelling in the following.) All Knights of Pythias are requested to meet at K.P. hall at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, December 26, to attend the funeral of Brother C.A. Richards. A.A. Andrews C.C. News from Ouray, Colo., says: Closely following the death of Michael Karns, who was frozen to death, occurs the tragedy of the death of his son Thomas at 4 a.m. today. The remains of the Elder Karns arrived from Telluride, for burial in this city Thursday and were at the house of his son Thomas. The undertaker had left some embalming fluid, composed of corrosive sublimate and arsenious acid in diluted alcohol at the house, in the room with the corpse. The poisonous fluid was in a bottle labeled “champagne,” and Thomas Karns, thinking it whisky, took two large swallows before discovering his mistake. Despite the efforts of physicians, he died in a few hours. Late this evening word was received that the death of his sister, Mrs. Winters, who was on her way from Denver to attend the funeral of her father, may be reported at any minute. She had to be left at Pueblo, having been taken very ill on the train. Dec 26, 1897: The funeral of Charles Richards, who died Saturday of heart failure, will be held at 2 o’clock today. The remains will be given interment at Mt. Pisgah cemetery. Dec 28, 1897: James Oliver, who was thrown from his horse and terribly injured one night last week, is lying at the Sisters’ hospital in a critical condition. One side of his body is paralyzed from the effects of the blow on his head, and last night there were symptoms of pneumonia as a result of the bruises on his chest. His recovery is considered doubtful. Thomas Clark the Beacon hill lessee who was thrown from a wagon in a runaway two weeks ago and suffered a fractured skull, is slowly recovering at the Sisters’ hospital. Dec 29, 1897: James Oliver died yesterday morning at 5 o’clock at the Sisters’ hospital. His death was the result of injuries received a week ago, when a dog ran at his horse and frightened the animal, causing him to fall and cripple both himself and his rider. Colorado Springs, Dec. 28. – Coroner Marlowe returned from Divide last night. He had been called to that place this morning to investigate the death of Charles Ross, a Midland Terminal section hand who was found dead near a spring about half a mile from the section house. An inquest was held and the fact was developed that the man had died of heart disease. St. Joseph, Mo., Dec. 28. – Miss Jennie Edwards, aged 19, and Arch McMasters, aged 24, members of wealthy families residing near Hopkins, were killed in a runaway near there last night. Miss Edwards’ skull was crushed by striking a post. Denver, Dec. 29. – One of the best known Denver sports died this morning at 1538 California street. He was Chris Boyne. He had been suffering from consumption for a number of years, and for several weeks past has been gradually sinking, when last Saturday he was compelled to take his bed. He lingered until this morning at 6 o’clock. Chris Boyne was a thoroughbred sport, and known from San Francisco to New York, although he lived for seventeen years in Denver. He came here with his mother and brothers a number of years ago. One brother died of consumption about one year ago. Another brother serves in the fire department. Chris was best known as an employee of the Arcade saloon, near Sixteenth and Larimer streets. At one time he was at the head of the Arcade gambling rooms, and was a familiar figure behind the roulette table and other gambling devices. Victor: R.J. Stewart died at 10 o’clock yesterday at the Victor lodging house of pneumonia. Little is known of him other than that he was a laborer and came from Arkansas City, Kan. He had received $20 from his mother during his illness. His remains will be interred tomorrow. William Tehan, deceased, has left important papers in care of some friend in Cripple Creek. Anybody knowing the whereabouts of these papers please communicate with Eugene McCarthy, care Morning Times. Denver, Dec. 30. – At 2 o’clock this afternoon the funeral services over the remains of Judge Gilbert G. Reed were conducted from the late residence 35 Eighteenth avenue. The Rt. Rev. Dean Hart read the Episcopal service, in the presence of a large concourse of the friends of the deceased judge. The ceremony was impressive in the extreme. Central City, Dec. 30. – Engine No. 3 of the Gilpin County Tramway jumped the track at a bridge crossing over Prosser gulch this morning. Engineer Harvey Pearce was instantly killed, and Fireman Franklin and had his right leg broken and his hip badly injured; he was also scalded about the head. This was Pearce’s first trip over the road. He was accompanied by an old engineer named Dorn, who managed to jump and save his life. The engine is a total wreck. It had been out of the shop only a few days, having been derailed at the same place two months ago. The wreck leaves the tramway with only a light engine for its line, another engine having been wrecked a few days ago. Little Theresa Wagner, aged 15 months, died yesterday at the home of her parents, 109 East Carr avenue. She had been sick for some time past with bronchial pneumonia. The funeral takes place tomorrow from the house. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/teller/newspapers/deathnot25gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 97.7 Kb