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Sacramento Daily Record-Union
June 6, 1882 (Tuesday), Page 3, Column 4 
 
NEVADA. 
Funeral of the Heroic Miners. 
 
Virginia [City] (Nev.), June 5th. ? The funeral of Denis Callahan and Wm. 
Bennett, the miners who forfeited their lives in an attempt to penetrate the 
flooded drift of the Alta mine, took place yesterday [June 4]. An opportunity to 
attend the funeral was afforded to nearly all the miners on the lode. The body 
of Callahan was conveyed from Virginia to the Gold Hill depot, accompanied by 
1,00 miners, the Masonic fraternity, the Land League, and citizens in carriages 
and on foot. Every available vehicle was pressed into service. After depositing 
the body in the Miners' Union Hall, the procession moved to the Masonic Hall of 
Gold Hill, and from there conveyed the body of Bennett to the Gold Hill 
Cemetery. These funerals were the largest the death of any miner has ever caused 
on the Comstock, every person familiar with the efforts of the two unfortunate 
men deeming it his duty to attest bis admiration of their heroism. The floral 
tributes were many and handsome.