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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.





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