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Show June 12,1940. Correll. ARLAND A. l'IKE • -2- veloping the hoist room in large clouds 0' dense steam. The force of the escaping steam knocked Engineer Pike to the floor, Where he lay stunned for a second or two. throu~h Getting on his feet he ViaS carried bodily the door by the jet of escaping stearn, vlhere he vms in the midst of flying debris and how he escaped with his life is a mystery. He was scalded and bruised in se~eralplaces, the worst injury being his leg, which was so badly bruised that it was with great diffmculty that he was able to walk. He recovered shortly but the end of the engine room was completely torn out. During 1912 as a side line, when off duty, he sold $120,000 'vorth of life insurance for one of the old line companies. A fire at the Daly West on December 27, 1913, destroyed the shaft house and mill buildings at the shaft. While the otheremployes ·were fighting the fire, Engineer Pike remained at his post with fragments of burning timbers falling all around him. He finally lowered the cages to the sump in order to save them and the shaft. Engineer Pike has a wife and three children (1927) the youngest son being a vimlinist of unusual ability and a promising future. About twenty years ago (1910) "'hen the bonanza ore bodies .' of the Daly West on the 900 foot level were in their palmiest days and production was at its height, it was not uncownon to hoist three hundred to four hundred cars of ore per shift, taxinG the en8ineer to the utmost. Only once during his lifetime as a hoisting engineer bas a fatal accident occured while he was on duty. A miner fainted, fall- ing from the cage into the timber and was kilJed. A thorough investigat ion of the case completely exhonorated V:r. Pike from any blarJ.e. Traffic at the Daly West shaft has been increased considerably of late due to the hauling of Many men and much material for ~he New 'i,uibcy IIc'Lining Gompany, and the diverting of considerable hoisting |
