Miscellaneous newspaper articles about Gilpin County and her residents
June 25, 1887
The Saturday Review, East Liverpool Ohio
From Monday's Daily- Mrs. R. Harker left yesterday for Chicago, where she will meet her daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Newell and two children, of Central City Colo., who are on their way there to visit friends.
August 24, 1893
The Ohio Democrat, New Philadelphia Ohio
Prof. J.H. Troendly and family departed last Tuesday for their home in Central City, Colo., at which place he will resume his position as Superintendent of the schools. We have been informed that if he could have gotten a position in Ohio, he would have remained here.
March 7, 1895
The Indiana Democrat, Indiana Pennsylvania
Samuel Slater was instantly killed and Ed Weir seriously injured by an explosion in the Alps mine at Central City, Colo.
September 4, 1895
The Perry Bulletin, Perry Iowa
DROWNED IN A MINE
Fifteen Men Lost Their Lives.
Lower Workings of the Sleepy Hollow Mine Near Central City, Colo.,
Flooded-List of the Victims-Other Casualties.
Central City, Colo., Aug. 31-Thirteen miners in the Sleepy
Hollow mine were working yesterday afternoon in the drifts, when
suddenly a torrent of water came streaming down the shaft, and,
sweeping debris before it, choked up the entries and passageways,
entombing the workmen. The Italians working above were caught
in the mighty rush of the flood, and they, too, were sacrificed. The
report of the disaster was brought to Central City by a courier, and
men rushed to the rescue. The pumps that drain portions of this
great burrow may beat down the flood and uncover a portion of the
property, but this will be of no avail to the workmen who were
caught there. The damage to the adjacent mining property will be
large. There are over 1,000 men employed on leases in the vicinity
as well as upon portions of the Bobtail property, and the returns
have been a great factor in swelling the total gold output in Gilpin
county. This disaster will stop work for a time, and may result in
the abandonment of much of the paying territory. Not in years has so
much work been done in that district. Extensive machinery has been
set up and the outlook was bright for further development. The names
of the miners thus caught are: N. Vegano, Thomas Williams, H.
Brockenbrough, Thomas Corbis, A. Nozoro, J. Harris, William
Thomas, S. Vallero, O. Pronz, John Parks, H Prisk and son.
The two Italians in the Americans and an unknown man complete
the list. The body of H. Prisk was recovered.
The sounding of the whistle gave the first signal of
disaster, and soon the shaft building of the Sleepy Hollow mine was
so crowded with the families and relatives of the imprisoned miners
and those anxious to render assistance that it was almost impossible
for the work of rescue to proceed.
Deputy Sheriff W.T. Williams finally arrived on the ground,
the building was cleared, and practical mines offered their services
in lowering the bucket. The greatest depth attained was 330 feet,
the accumulated gas forced up by the rising water being such
that a candle would not burn at a greater depth. A second effort was
was made, a larger sized safety lamp having been placed in the
bucket. The rescuer who first descended in the bucket was forced to
stop at the 330 foot level. On reaching the surface he was in an
almost insensible condition. Other volunteers went down afterward,
but were not successful in reaching a lower point in the shaft owing
to the rising water.
August 14, 1897
Naugatuck Daily News, Naugatuck Connecticut
ATTACKED THE JAIL
Colorado Mob Try to Kill the Inmates of a Cell
Central City, Colo., Aug. 14-A mob from Russell Gulch, armed
and masked, broke into the Central City jail by effecting an
entrance through a door in the rear and demanded the keys of the
steel cell from the jailor. In this cell were confined four
prisoners, held on suspicion of the murder of Alex. Goddard, an
American miner, who was stabbed during a saloon row with Austrians
last Monday night.
The mob was after Dominick Eck, believed to be guilty of the
murder. The jailer refused to give up the keys whereupon the mob
fired through the bars into the cage. The four prisoners escaped
death by hiding behind the mattresses and bedding in their cell.
The mob, supposing it had killed all four, left the jail.
Four leaders have been arrested, and a strong guard has assembled
about the jail, but further trouble is feared.
April 15, 1904
Lima Times Democrat, Lima Ohio
SHERIFF PROTECTS CULPRIT
Central City, Colo., April 15-Since the attempt last night no
further attempt to lynch Azel D. Galbraith, the self confessed
murderer of his wife and son, has been made. A lynching was
prevented solely by the bravery of Sheriff Cody, who declared today
to the mob: "I will die fighting to keep you out of this jail."
October 18, 1904
Iowa City Daily Press, Iowa City, Iowa
WORK OF A JEALOUS DASTARD
Central City, Colo., Oct. 18-Mrs. Gertrude Sachs, a
widow aged 32, was killed, and two boarders in her house seriously
injured by an explosion in the kitchen range. Victor Frank, aged 28,
is accused of having placed dynamite in the fuel and has been
arrested on a charge of murder. Jealousy is alleged to have promoted
the act.
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