Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....GUITERREZ, Jose D. October 3 1921
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Las Vegas Age - 10/8/1921
LAS VEGAS AGE

10/8/1921



MINER AT SLOAN IS KILLED BY EXPLOSION



RETURNS TOO QUICKLY TO MISSED SHOT AND GETS FULL FORCE OF DELAYED BLAST



    Jose D. GUITERREZ, a miner in the employ of the Nevada Lime and Rock 

Company at Sloan, lost his life Monday afternoon by the explosion of a slow 

or "missed" hole.  A number of holes for a blast had been loaded and all 

workmen ordered from the danger zone when the holes were fired.  One of the 

shots failed to explode with the others, and without waiting the usual time, 

GUITERREZ went to the hole and began to clean it out.  He received the full 

force of the explosion and was terribly mutilated.

    The injured man was immediately taken in an automobile for the purpose 

of bringing him to the Las Vegas Hospital, but he died before this city was 

reached.

    Coroner LILLIS immediately went to Sloan to inquire into the 

circumstances of the accident.  An inquest was held here Tuesday;  the 

coroner's jury being H. J. WOODARD, foreman, J. M. KEITH and Willard 

CLAYTON.  The verdict found:

    "That he came to his death on the third day of October by an explosion 

caused by his returning to a supposed missed hole without giving it a 

reasonable time to cool, and entering said hole he began to clean it out, 

when the explosion occurred causing his death.  This was done against the 

advice of his fellow workmen and against the general rules of the management 

of the Nevada Lime and Rock Company, where he worked and was injured."











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