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Circumstances surrounding Death ofJohn LYNOX in CA in 1858

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Circumstances surrounding Death ofJohn LYNOX in CA in 1858

Posted: 22 Mar 2006 7:11PM GMT
Classification: Death
Surnames: LYNOX
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Vern D
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CASANJOA-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 38
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:33:01 -0800
Transcribed by: "Dee Sardoc" <deesar@frontiernet.net>
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Weekly Stockton Democrat
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
Sunday, 30 May 1858
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FIVE MEN DROWNED -- Columbia, May 22
A dreadful accident occurred this morning, at about 10
o'clock, at the South Side tunnel, formerly known as
the Capt. Mann Claim, in the Table Mountain, near
Shaw's Flat, by which 5 men lost their lives while
working in the tunnel, which is driven into the
mountain about 800 feet, on an
incline.

They struck through the rim of the basin containing an
immense lake of water, which has heretofore prevented
the miners from working their claims on the flat
above. The tunnel is some 150 feet below this flat,
and as they struck through, the water having this
immense pressure instantly filled the entire
excavation. The miners were of course unable to escape and
perished in this subterranean river.

The water is still flowing through the tunnel, in an
undiminished stream, and the bodies cannot be
recovered until the water fells, which will
undoubtedly ensue in 2 or 3 days, as it is already
forcing its way out of the mountains from a tunnel
some distance below.

The names of the unfortunate men are -- John LYNOX,
Joseph OSBORN and John CARLYON, Cornish miners;
Greenuff BRUMMER, New Hampshire, and Albert GLASON,
Maine.

The miners in the Peck tunnel, near by, 10 in number,
had a narrow escape. The alarm was given by a boy who
heard the waters coming, and they rushed out, the
waters becoming knee high before they got out. 3
minutes later and they would have met a similar fate
with those above mentioned. The miners have been
expecting a flood, and had purchased a tunnel below to

drain the flat, but they were entirely unprepared for
this sad and dreadful calamity. The tunnels in the
vicinity are all flooded by the under-ground river. It
is expected, however, that no serious damage will
ensue, as those claims will undoubtedly be drained in
a few days, from the large body of water flowing out from below.

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