On July 23, 1890 appeared to be a typical day at Hayden Hill and then it was not. Frank Auble and W.A. Dunbar were working alone in a mine, the name of which I have not been able to ascertain. The two men came up from the mine shaft to prepare dinner and built a fire in the shaft house to sharpen their picks. They then descended back down the mine shaft, but apparently did not take the proper precaution to extinguish the fire. Eventually, the shaft house caught on fire. By the time the others saw it, they rushed to the scene to extinguish it, By that time some of the mine timbers caught fire. Once the fire was out, an attempt was made to go down the shaft to rescue the men. The gas and smoke was overpowering to prevent them. It was determined to obtain a hose from Adin. When attached to a large billow, this forced the air in the mine shaft to circulate. Montgomery Auble was the first to make the descent and at the forty-foot level found the bodies of Frank, (his brother) and Dunbar both dead of suffocation. Once the bodies were brought to the surface they were taken to Adin where the two men were buried.
I have always been a believer that all humans have a time and date when they are going to expire, and there is no stopping it!