John Maddox, a well known miner of San…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

John Maddox, a well known miner of San Pedro' District, fell down a shaft in the Allan Story turquoise mine, and was killed. He was engaged in the bottom of the shaft, seventy-five feet deep, and had fired the last blast of the day and started up the shaft in the bucket when the rope broke and let him fall, a distance of about sixty feet. Scarcely had his body struck the bottom of the shaft when the blast of giant powder he had but a few momens before set a match to, exploded. Death was almost in- stantaneous. ,