The Explosion at Pioche, Nevada
San Francisco, 18th.
There is no insurance on the property burned in consequence of the
explosion at Pioche, Nevada on Saturday. The loss exceeds a quarter of
a million of dollars. Three hundred kegs of gunpowder in the cellar of
Felsenthal & Co., exploded, levelling all the buildings in the
vicinity. The persons killed were Jeremiah Kirby, James Agnew, John
Sand, William Dodds, Mike Sheenan, and one other was burned past
recognition.
A large number of persons were wounded, including H.D. Beem, John
Cullen, Harvey Rice, James Walters, Bartholomew Noonan, John Farley,
Robert Watts, Archy Mulkean, John Daiken, Charles Williams, Miller
Juillan, Wm. Ryan, David Nagle, Miss(?) Gary French, Charlie
Rosiestien, Philip Richards, Wm. H. King, H.G. Tobler, Robert Shannon,
David Noonan, John Dougherty, Miss Haischan, Miss Foy, A. Rooney, Fred
Haskins, Wm. Stevens, Thomas Kendall, Olive Schultze, S. Colton and
Dennis Sullivan - all of whom were either injured by falling rocks,
jarred by the concussion or burned. Many of the wounded will die.
[Boston Daily Evening Transcript - Sep 19, 1871]
Contributed by Kim Torp
The Pioche (Nev) Record says the smallest indian agency in the country
is located in that country. There are no men, women, no children and
one agent.
[The Salt Lake herald., October 15, 1886]
Contributed by Kim Torp
The Weekly Gazette Stockman Reno, Washoe Co. Nevada April 4 1889
BAKER, PHILIP C.
A Man Drowned on the Colorado River.
The Pioche Record of the 23d ult. says: Philip C. Baker was drowned in
the Colorado River, at El Dorado Canyon on the 10th inst. He was
fording the stream with the animals of the one team of the
Southwestern Mining Company on a bar where the water was about two and
a half feet deep only, but the bar does not run straight across the
river. An Indian rode the leading horse; the other animals were driven
in loose, except the hind one which Mr. Baker was riding. The Indian
went round on the bar all right, but the loose mules and horses, when
near the shore, instead of following on the bar, plunged directly
across a deep, swift, narrow channel. The large mare Mr. Baker was
riding followed them. He was riding with a rope halter only and
probably could not guide her. When within about 25 feet of the shore
the horse and rider were seen by parties on the bank to go under. Mr.
Baker was not seen again. The mare came up and swam to the shore.
Baker's body has not been found.
Mr. Baker was about 27 years old. A man of excellent character, and
highly esteemed by all his acquaintances. He had formerly been a
telegraph operator and book-keeper in the East, but for a few years
past, when not in the .employ of the Southwestern Mining Company, had
been improving 160 acres of land that be owned In San Luis Obispo
county, California.
George N. Conard was in from his Mud Springs ranch yesterday. He will
leave next week for Pioche, Nevada to meet his partner, Thomas Knight,
who was headed this way with a large band of horses and brood mares.
Mohave County miner., November 16, 1895
Contributed by Kim Torp
Seek a Lost Miner
Los Angeles, Oct 22. Hundreds of men are about to take up the search
for the body of Martin W Thompson, out on the great white desert of
Lincoln county, Nevada. Thompson disappeared from Searchlight on
August 12, 1906, and has not been heard from since. A fortune in the
richest gold ore of the district depends upon the recovery of the
remains.
Press Democrat, No 252, 23 Oct 1908 - transcribed by J.S.

