Plumas County Obituaries

Samuel Jones

Submitted by Brad Sharpe

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Mountain Messenger � 1/12/1902, Pg. 3

Died From Drinking Wood Alcohol � At the Onion Valley Hotel, Plumas 
county, on March 30th, two deaths resulted from drinking wood alcohol --- 
one Mr. Samuel Johnson of Quincy, who was an employee in the Chicago mine, 
a few miles distant from the hotel, and the other Mrs. Wm. Reese, sister 
of the proprietor�s wife Two others, Mr. Tom Simmons and Paddy O�Donnell 
are very sick from drinking the same mixture. It seems that the party met 
at the hotel sometime during the afternoon or evening, and one of the party 
produced a bottle filled with wood alcohol, the nature of the contents 
being unknown to them at the time, which Mrs. Hohn had purchased a few days 
before for varnishing purposes. Mr. Jones reached the mine early Monday 
evening, complaining of a pain in his chest. Everything was done to relieve 
the suffering man, but with out avail, and he passed away at 4 o�clock a. m. 
Tuesday. Mrs. Reese lingered but a short time, dying Monday afternoon at 
4 o�clock, Simmons and O�Donnell were not badly affected by the poison, and 
at this writing, hopes are entertained for their recovery.---Plumas Independent.