Brakeman Mudge and Engineer McGinnis
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

der of Railway Conductors. Brakeman Mudge and Engineer McGinnis are at the hospital in El Paso. The former will be removed to San Marcial soon as his condition permits. He is known to most business men in Silver City as he acted as agent here during January of this year. 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. ,