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Joseph Gindele

Posted 2026-02-05 by Jo Brown
JOE GINDELE PASSES AWAY
(Monday’s Herald)
Joseph Gindele, nativeof Vienna, Austria, noted mining engineer, graduate of Freiberg university
and for the past five years of W. P. Tiedemann of the Sonora Bank and Trust company of
Nogales, died early yesterday morning in the St. Joseph’s hospital after he was found late
Saturday night several hundred yards away from his camp at the Twin Bell mine by Mr.
Tiedemann and Jim Hathaway of the sheriff's office. Gindele was the consulting engineer of the
Twin Bell mine. When the company shut down about a year ago for refinancing and general
readjustments Gindele remained at the mine at Camp Golden Rose, just this side of Washington
camp, to continue with engineering work in connection with the reopening of the mine. Mr.
Tiedemann was in the habit of taking provisions and water to the isolated engineer once or
twice a week. Last Saturday evening when he arrived at the mine Gindele was not to be found.
The banker returned to Nogales immediately and Jim Hathaway accompanied him to the mine to
take up the search for the missing engineer. He was finally discovered a few hundred yards from
the camp suffering from a stroke. That night he was taken back to Nogales but died yesterday
morning. He was buried in the Nogales cemetery this morning. For the last few months the
deceased has been under the care of physicians who declared that he was troubled with an
enlarged heart. Mr. Tiedemann said that his partner was often taken with minor strokes and that
he had to be very careful with himself. It was the habit of Gindele to take a sun bath almost
every afternoon a little distance from his house and it was while basking in the sun that he was
stricken. The deceased leaves a brother and sister in Austria. He came to America in April, 1914,
to investigate mining conditions in Canada for the Royal Austrian Geological society. At the
opening of the world war he was forced to leave Canada and came to the United States. When
this country entered the war he went to Mexico Later he returned here and went into
partnership with Mr. Tiedemann.

The Border Vidette
September 15, 1928





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