Storey County NV Archives Obituaries.....Orrem, James October 4, 1883
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Reno Evening Gazette October 5, 1883
Death Underground
A Miner Dies While Being Hoisted to the Surface
This morning’s Virginia Enterprise says: Last evening James Orrem of Gold Hill
died very suddenly at the Union shaft.  He was employed as a carman on the 2,900
level of the Mexican mine.  About 4 o’clock in the afternoon, some men passing
through the drift in which Orrem was at work, were somewhat startled by hearing
groans.  Advancing toward the point whence the sounds of distress proceeded,
they found Orrem lying upon the floor in an unconscious condition.  He was taken
out through the drift and up to the Union shaft as quickly as possible.  At the
shaft he was placed on the cage, with two men to support him, but he breathed
his last before reaching the surface.  It was at first reported that the man
died from being over-heated, but it does not appear that he was working in a hot
place.  His fellow-miners believe he died of heart disease, and that now appears
to be the general opinion, as his father died of, or was troubled with heart
disease.


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