HISTORY OF AMADOR COUNTY CALIFORNIA 1881 Oakland California Thompson and West CHRONOLOGICAL page 337 1877 1877 January 15, 16, 17. Heavy rains, doing much damage to the Galt and Ione railroad, one car-load of passengers having to remain on the road all night. January 21. Death of Hon. T. M. PAWLING, County Judge. February 1. Butte Basin Mining Company incorporated. February 2. Incorporation of the Ione Coal Company by Mark HOPKINS, D. D. COLTON, C. E. GREEN, F. S. DOUGHERTY, and C. H. REDINGTON. February 4. Stage robbed of fifteen hundred dollars near Mountain Springs House. February 23. Boarding-house of Mrs. HURLEY, at Sutter Creek, destroyed by fire; adjoining houses, owned by BURNS and HUBBEL, seriously damaged. March 6. Wife and three children of A. LIVERSEDGE, formerly of this county, burned to death at Colusi. (my note Colusi is probably Colusa) March 18. Three children of Jesse RHODES, of Buckeye Valley, aged eight, six, and three years, died of diphtheria about the same hour. March 21. Coffin warehouse of SONGER and FAGAN, Sutter Creek, consumed by fire. March 31. Nichola ROSSIGGI fatally stabbed by Dominico CARANZA. April 17. Death of William H. STOWERS, Superintendent of Schools, at BARTLETT Springs, where he had gone for his health. May 6. A. NORTON, of Jackson, appointed to fill the unexpired term of W. H. STOWERS, deceased. May 26. Laying of the corner-stone of the Presbyterian church at Ione. June 5. Dwelling-house of Antone SILVA. Jackson. destroyed by fire. Loss two thousand dollars. June 10. Charles COX, of Lancha Plana, found dead near the suspension flume, with the appearance of having fallen over the cliff of rocks, which at that place is one hundred and thirty feet high. June 13. Dwelling-house of JONES and ANGORE, Buckeye Valley, destroyed by fire. June 21. New safe put into the County Treasurer's office. June 22. Dwelling of L. RABOLT, at Sutter Creek destroyed by fire. Loss, three thousand dollars. Dwelling of John BATTISTE, near Jackson, burned. Loss, two thousand dollars. August 7. John BAKER, while in a fit of delirium tremens, threw himself against a circular saw in rapid motion, at BRANNON's Mill, receiving fatal wounds. August 25. Fire at Jackson, destroying Dr. PETER's office. September 1. Roy CHAMBERLAIN, a forty-niner and an old resident of Amador County, found dead in his chair at his home near the Newton Copper Mine. Coroner's verdict, "Death from disease of the heart." September 12. Cars ran off the track below Ione, fatally injuring W. F. GURY. October 8. House of Jerry DONOVAN, Sutter Creek, destroyed by fire. October 17. James MCGEE (McGee), former engineer at the Oneida, while in a condition of mental derangement jumped into one of the shafts of the mine, falling a distance of six hundred feet, being instantly killed. October 22. Bucket fell in the Oneida, killing John GARDNER and John LUDERMAN, and wounding James FORCHEY. October 31. House of P. DWYER, Clinton, burned. December 2. James ARTHUR fatally injured in the Amador Mine by the caving of the draft in which he was at work. December 7. Edward E. STITT died at Drytown from injuries received while taking down the old Loyal Mill. December 22. Hon. John A. EAGON and W. L. MCKIMM (McKimm) thrown out of a buggy near Jackson. The former seriously and the latter fatally injured, Mr. MCKIMM dying in two or three hours.