Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Evening Argus Owosso, MI Tuesday, 25 September 1906 HUNDREDS OF LIVES ENDENGER- ED IN MINE AT CALUMET --------------------- MEN FLEE FROM FLAMES ----------------- In Osceola Diggings - Falling of Skip Gave Warning. --------------- Calumet, Mich., Sept. 25. - Fire which endangered hundreds of lives broke out under- ground in No. 1 shaft at the North Kearsarge branch of the Osceola Consolidated mine Monday. There are 800 men employed at the property, most of them working underground. When the presence of the fire became known the men made a mad rush for No. 3 shaft, where they were forced to climb nearly 1,000 feet to reach a drift connecting with No. 3 and many of these men encountered smoke and gas and were nearly overcome. They were revived when they reached the fresh air at the surface. Number one shaft is supposed to be afire be- tween the 1,200 and 1,700 foot levels. Before the shaft was sealed at the surface the smoke poured forth in great volumes, indicating that the fire is raging fiercely below the surface. The heavy steel cable attached to the 10-ton rock skip melted in the intense heat, and the cage fell to the bottom of the mine. The crashing of the skip and cable was the first warning of the fire that some of the men in the bottom of the mine received. As No. 1 shaft is heavily timbered, it is feared the fire may reach great proportions and operations will be discontinued in the entire mine until the flames are smothered. This may cause a large loss, as at the Tama- rack mine the fire has not been subdued after nine month's effort and $1,500,000 loss in pro- duction. ===========================================================================