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Submitted by: Eileen Gillette
Article Title: Nevada State Journal
Article Date: February 17 1913
Article Description: Comstock Miner Dashed To Death (graphic)
Article Text:
Virginia City, 16 Feb, Bodie STEPLE, 30 year old Austrian minerfell from the cage
assending in the Mexican winze this morning as was dashed to death on the sump platform of
the 2500' level. So heavy was the impact that the body was forced through the 4"
board flooring over the sump.
STEPLE had worked all night and was coming up woth seven other miners at the end of the
shift when the accident occured. Between the 2300' and 2400' level the men on the
cage noted a jar and upon in vestigation found the man had fallen or been dragged from the
cage. His body was crushed and then fallen perhaps 200 feet.
The deceased was a single man of quiet disposition and steady habits. It is believed
that he may have been suffereing from gases when he boarded the cage and may have fallen
off in a faint.
State mine inspector, Ed RYAN made a hurried trip from Carson to investigate the
incident.
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