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<br />lar cave-in, caught and killed by falling rocks," Later a cor-
<br />oner's jury exonerated all persons from blame and attributed
<br />the accident to "unforeseen and unavoidable conditions."fl6 In
<br />1909, just a few days before the tunnel was officially opened,
<br />Walter Honey, a driller, was crushed by a ton of rock crashing
<br />down from the tunnel roof.6.
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<br />At the River Portal, high water periodically invaded the
<br />tunnel entrance, which was about seven feet below the water
<br />line, and k e p t
<br />pumps constantly
<br />at work, some-
<br />n' times discharging
<br />as much as 750,-
<br />000 gallon s in
<br />t wen ty - f 0 U I'
<br />hours.fl" Water in
<br />the tunnel not
<br />.\ only raised the
<br />humiditv to un-
<br />comf';rtable
<br />heights for the
<br />workers (and in-
<br />" creased the air
<br />temperature
<br />through slacking
<br />of the shales) but had other adverse effects as well,'" The
<br />tunnel floor could not be used at all, The electric tram traoks
<br />had to be elevated, Shoring timbers would float away or
<br />become water-soaked, Special attention had to be paid to
<br />such commodities as tool boxes, powder, nails, repair parts
<br />for drills, and even lunch boxes to insure that they wouldn't
<br />become buried in muck or swept away. Water flows from
<br />surrounding bedrock were so numerous through the tunnel
<br />sections excavated during the year from July, 1907, that
<br />pumps removed the water at the monthly rate of about
<br />19,000,000 gallons,'" In one section of fissured, water-bearing
<br />rock the water pressure often reached such extremes that it
<br />would force powder out of holes before the charges could be
<br />fired.;1 In the fault zone, frequent inrushing \vater would often
<br />carry literally tons of sand which would bury tram tracks and
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<br />... On .Jun~ 1. th", ('ul..rwl" .s/lrin.ll8 (;ll:rtt" li~h'(! fl\.. m..n a" ,It-ad: 1'~dwar,J
<br />Schuler, Flop! \"(J(l.lruH, .\. B. ~le...Ii;". Chari.." lIornhart anJ James Cas-"ltly.
<br />A ~ixth casualty. lh'rman i-:ck..rman. Wll~ r"p..rt~'d on th.. fnllowin~ (jll,~.. Tlw
<br />n'",('u<:"rs work..d in thrt,..-mlnut<' relay", f..r twenty-four hnur~. finally r~a('hln~
<br />tilt' hurlpd m,'n llnll haullnl:" th~m Ul' a IIlxty-foot re"cu.. tunnel b~. rut'<:'~. The
<br />.Iune 1 I~!'u" of th.. all:dl,' carrj.-,j n good human int..rellt !<t(>ry (lpalln~ with
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