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Summit Tunnel and Newport Mansion
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Fair employed 600 Chinese immigrant for the job which included two tunnels, one 6,200 feet long and the other 5,000 feet long. In the course of the tunneling thirty-one workers lost their lives largely due to natural gas explosions during the tunneling process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrights_tunnel
旧金山震后重建50人领导团 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oelrichs
40岁的Oelrichs met Theresa Alice Fair ("Tessie"), daughter of United States Senator and Comstock Lode millionaire James Graham Fair
女主人Theresa Alice Fair ("Tessie")的父亲James Graham Fair。建议修建Santa Cruz Mountain railroad.Summit Tunnel explosion killed 24 Chinese.
Construction of the Summit Tunnel began in 1878 and was plagued from the start. Underground, crews complained of suffocating fumes and oil oozing from the earth. The air got so bad that workers began to pass out. Eventually, methane gas that had been building up inside the cavern ignited into a fireball.
A Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel article dated Nov. 18, 1879 described its devastation:
“The explosion was followed by a sheet of lurid flame, which the great mountain belched forth, consuming everything before it.”
The blast killed 32 Chinese workers. “Most of their bodies were returned to China,” Whaley says. “But there were several years where there was a Chinese cemetery up in the mountains where some of the workers had been buried.”
