Accounts & Testimony
Survivor testimony — eyewitness statements — first-person records from the frontier
Eyewitness & Survivor
Eyewitness Testimony — 1904
Statement of a Telegraph BoyHe was the first person on-site with a working wire. He sent twelve messages before dawn. He counted the survivors. The number did not match the manifest.
Survivor Testimony — 1914
Account from the Tent ColonyShe was inside a tent when the shooting started. She was inside the death pit when it ended. She survived. She was eleven years old.
Statements of Record
Mine Record — 1879
Still TappingThe rescue was called on October 17th. The tapping resumed at 9:41 that morning. The shaft was sealed on October 18th. When it was reopened in 1884, the fragments found with him indicated he had survived at least six days.
Frontier Statement — 1874
Statement of Survival in the San Juan CountryHe came out of the San Juans alone. The mountains kept what they took. He carried the silence of five others with him.