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miners -- 6 of them -- but got on their track -- They had removed a bulkhead 150 ft north of the Gould & Curry shaft & gone into an old drift that leads to a [sentence erased] incline of 550 feet further north -- This [sentence erased] runs down to the Sutro tunnel

The Mining Disaster in Gould & Curry
Bodies Found

level -- It has closed [sentence erased] the welling of the ground etc, & also bulkheaded at lower end -- So no hope for them, they must be in that incline [sentence erased] -- Air pipes were being put in today and the bulkhead at lowed end removed -- Bodies will probably be brought out tomorrow -- I sent a telegram about it this evening at 7:40 to the Reno Journal -- Evening down town -- Bed at 2 --

The Bodies Brought Up

Sunday July 10

Clouds & Sunshine -- in PM about town -- Those bodies were found this morning, but owing to pretty extensive trouble in getting at them, bad air, etc, they were not brought to the surface until late in the evening -- About 11 oclock I was with Frank Trezona, & we to Conboce's undertaking shop and saw all the corpses -- They had evidently been dead many days and came apart at the joints unless care was taken -- in the handling -- They were rolled onto canvass sheets which were bound around them and ties securely, in order to bring them up the shaft -- The stench from

Horrible Corpses

them was simply fearful and I had to cover my nose and mouth with my handkerchief --