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The Bessemer Herald
February 9, 1901


                          Fire at the Sunday Lake
                          
              Fire broke out in No. 2 shaft at the Sunday Lake
            mine at Wakefield at about 11 o'clock last Saturday
            night which it is feared will cause heavy loss to
            the company. The fire originated from a piece of 
            candle carelessly thrown away by some of the men 
            who came up shortly before that hour and which lodged
            behind the plank lining of the shaft where the fire
            could not be readily reached after it was discovered.
            The shaft was at once sealed up and has not yet been
            opened, though smoke had almost ceased to issue from
            the shaft when the writer visited the mine on Thurs-
            day. On account of no one being able to enter the
            shaft up to the present time the extent of the damage
            is not known. The fire started between the fifth and
            sixth levels. Capt. ROSCORLA informed us that the
            fire had not burned  below the twelfth level but how
            far above the point where the fire started the shaft
            is damaged is not known. The shaft will be opened to-
            day and as soon as the gases have escaped so that men
            can enter it the extent of the damage will be known.
            About 75 men are thrown out of work for the present,
            though it is believed that nearly all these will be
            put to work again next week. No. 2 is the same shaft
            where the big cave occurred two years ago.
            
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