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ANOTHER JACKET ACCIDENT.

William Pollard Dashed to Pieces -- A Broken Nose of a Balance Bob and a Disarranged Shaft.

Another accident occurred at the Yellow Jack at 11 o'clock last night, by which William Pollard, a Gold Hill boy, not quite twenty years old, was instantly killed.

It appears that the pumps were not working very well in the earlier part of the night, and it was difficult to cause the pumping engine to make complete revolutions. Just previous to the accident which resulted in the death of Pollard, the nose piece of balance bob No. 7 broke. This is just below the 2400 level.

At the time of this accident the timbers of the shaft were considerably disarranged along where the accident occurred, the north center pieces being knocked out. Pollard was in the bottom of the shaft and jumped into the skip to go to the surface, nothwithstanding the fact that splinters were seen to fall the bottom, showing that some-thing was wrong above. When the skip came to the place where the timbers were disarranged it dumped and stuck. Pollard was, of course, thrown out and fell to the bottom of the shaft -- about 600 feet. His body was badly mangled. In fact, portions of it were entirely gone and one arm could not be found. The deceased was well known on the Comstock. He was a member of the Liberty Volunteer Hose Company No. 1, of Sarsfield Guard, and the Miners' Union of Gold Hill, and leaves a great number of friends by whom he was held in high esteem.

Coroner Brodek will hold an inquest on the body of the deceased in Virginia at 5 o'clock this evening, and the funeral will be conducted under the auspices of the memebers of Liberty Volunteer Hose Company tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.