The New York herald., 1867-04-07
Tr1 GREAT cullEH ExplosloNAI clovEaHIll, VA
More than Seventy Persons KiiIcd-The PIC
still ON Five-Desails Of the Catastrophe.

Moro than Seventy Persons KiiIcd-The Pt
stiil ON Five-DesaIls Of the Catastrophe.
From the Richmond Enquirer April 6l
Most Of our readers are3amiar with the coal dug
from the Clover Hill pits in Chesterfield county about
miles from oy 0aa ans e
length, connecting at Chester twelve miles from TINS
city. with the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad
These mines, which have been worked for many years.
consist at present Of three pits known respectively as
the Bright Hope Raccoon and Halls pits, and from
bushels p Of coo Both of the last named pits
having been for some time submerged oper-
atoms in them were temporarily discontinued,
explosion on Wednesday last, which, without mo-
ments warning hurried nearly hundred human beings
ever remain an mIenetrabe secret for the lips OF all
who might have explained the mystery are closed by
the death which spared none 70 tell the tale Is sup.
drunken gasman TO discharge the duties Of his office,
which are 70 examine, with one Of Davys safety lamps
tlson Of tho II pits hls @ ventilation being kept 10 by
means Of doors opening into various portions Of the pits,
the puridcalQn Of the air in this mine being addition
ally secured BY powerful wind fan driven by the PIT
The pit has two shafts used respectively for ascending
and descendngl running eight hundred and nifty feet
beneath the surface Of the earth, but poweffuI was
the explosion that the the platform at the
entrance the shaft greatly Jared, and so terrific
which Two or three poor Fellows were \. the ascend
ng to light and life, was instantanecusly severed
though by knife and the unhappy men with lhtnang
~~~-> ~ -
q speedy death. sH
The number Of operatives In the employ 6f the Glover
Hill Cornpany is nearly two hundred, and te village,
with population of about thousand has sprung up
In tho vicinity Of the pits and when the NAngs of
disaster which had Killed some seventy men, spread
through the village the excitement suspense and agony
were intense.
hundreds OF persons and the sheks moans and lamen-
tatons Of the female friends OF the victims we're indeed
narrowing Stern men, who had faced the horrors Of
many battle field unable to bear the hsarrendng
scene and weeping like children, turned away utterly
unnamed.
OF the victims Of the explosion some twenty twenty
Ave were white the remainder being negroes We have
been unable yet TO procure list Oh the killed. pt give
the names Of the most of the white aborers whose duties
called them that into the mines and the most OF
must OF course, be put upon the dead lst Ihe
following what termed rs-Joseph Clay
ton, +. Condry, John Garber George GarDert william
Thomas Beverley Ammonette, Peter Logan, George
Moore B. L. Jordan Patrick Donahue, James Lockett,
Henry Palmer, William Richards, John lnsko, James
Kearney. The following are ''trailers-N Roberts,
James Harper Richard Berry, W. A. Cole, William D..
Goode; John Veal, gasman Thomas Marshall, gasman
George Bertam boy driver; Jack Smith, overseer or
tracra
William b. Robertson changer position which
compelled him stand at the foot Of the shaft Thomas
Marshall ST. is certainly safe Is also Ellis Martin
and the miners work In pairs it s supposed that his
who sick short time previous to the accident, Is
also supposed TO be safe The aborcrs in the mines
divided into the dggers the trailcs, who remove the
coal 70 the mouth of the shaft and the drivers who at
tend to the teams The mules killed supposed 10 be
eight in NUMBER and when the shaft was
opened after the accident the bodies Of two of the
mails were found near the foot of the shaft.