The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-09-25

bot taken or some 50 fest below. Thar,
4 is O. tunnel which intetsects the shaf
there, and rune almost lhorlscutally aboe
so Feet ent Co the facs of Ahs him. Ih
embouehure there is what I hsvs described
~ black hols in the bill. nc 10 q vanlted
passage, iust high enough to walk through
without STOPPING. IL 10 dark, ,noisoms
place, although it Gis 90 short, and is only
half lie by ths hat-lamps Of the men within
it. These are the reliefs, who are waiting
their turn TO 20 down the shaft, and the
men who, take the bodies from those Who
have brought then from the mine. Hence
they are carried out upon the embarked
road -tvA Me sight ef-the anxious crowd. A
EpysheAdGflaAW q sshs Ibarrier, to whom
| civilly enesgh presented my credentials,
and stated my purposes, broke oos upon me
Get their napss,lis its Pot ON a lamy
on yer hat, then, ahd 20 down the shaft liks
man for their names. | suppose yer here
10 make money ous o. this. God damn ye =
I e Rhe ball invelsed in the sugg eseion 70
apply to dead man for bis name and cd
dress would have revealed the nationality oi
my interlocutor, hough neither his brogus
nor his benedlctionn had betrayed him. Bat
he was qnits sober, and the temper shown BY
this speech, Of bis 10 shared, fully bslisva
By most OF his fellow miners. Suppoaing
bis absurd assumption to be jast, sho can
not understand his wrath a to0se TO whom
the slaughter Of his eompanions was for q
profit, a. sel a. for the show, which only a
is to thousands Of the gaping idlers hsra
BY explanation and abjurgation, however,
the patient committee man induces MIN 10
abste his ciub, snd We 60 % the tree wAere
the coroner's jury are sitting. When tbs
platform came up, early this morning, the
hrst sign they had Of it here was the rushing
out 20 this tree of pale and eAsping miners,
whose Injured lungs bod given IN 70 the ear
burstted air below, and vhe were laid IN
der this tree for resuscItatioa. But no other
restoratives than fresh air have been used or
needed all day, and now that the fan 10
working 90 we'll the new arrivals are indis-
tinguishsble from their comrades Of the up-
per air, except by an additional smear .or
two OF CRIME. After the wreckers have
emerged, the groups before the tunnel part,
ana stretcher appears, covered with o
sheet, except at the foot, where two ponder
Gus hob-nailed boots aIe thrus: out The
stretcher 10 deposited, the jury 10 mustered,
and the forenan inquiries
/ Who brought up this mani r'
a miner steps forward with s. for one,
sir"
Did you bring him out OF the shaisS"
Yes, sir" or sometimes pesrishly, "Why
of course did.'' fs
Was be dead when you brosehs him
out. 20
(Reverently) -" Yes sir"
Then the man at the head draws down the
cloth from the dead face, and any miner
who can identity il Is invited 60 do %. What
follows is something like this:
DID yoa know the man 20
What was bis name ?"
"Owen Jones'"
"" Where did be live 20
"Ovef the river, somew here"
Over the river turns out to mean HaDover
and when the idertity 10 ascertained % the
satisfaction OF the jury, the big miner With
bus beard goes to the walls edge and repeats
his formula Ut supra The sheet 10 drawn
over the face again the bearers carry the
stretchers on through the lines, and deliver
their burden to his friends to be taken %
his own house. This is the scene that has
been enacted to-day in every one Of these
houses in sight, and win have been enacted
before the week is out in quite every one.
Sometimes there is dispute about the
identitv. Probably il is q mere mistake or
names. for bave seen no dead face to-day
that had been so far disfignred as TO be ir-
recognizable. When such a dispute arises,
the disputants persist, gravely snd quietly
each Ia his own belief, until the other ac-
quaintances are called in and the question is
settled by the weight OF evidence. 1t is cur
lous what mistakes occur, even with regard
to the best known men in the mine. The
eighth body taken out was identified, repor-
ted and published rs that Of Mr.. Evan
Hughes, the inside boss" The goth body
was identified as his with equal readiness,
and reported and published as mis- with equal
tranquility. On the other hand, | was told
by the superintendent at another mine that
his body would be left to the last. The
miners, in their present mood, would break
out, it is feared, in open revolt st the notion
OF any preference being given to :he super
lntendent In the order Of exhumation, yer
the humblest mule-driVer ia the mine,
The appearance Of the deal is awful, MS
how could it iall TO be. But il is merely
that. Ii is not ia the least nauseating.
These golfers bodies, now 10 decent burial
slowly borne, are uuwQunded, in by fal the
most cases. Sometimes clots OF blood, exu-
ded from the nostrils are siffened on the
lips. One or two only have frothed at the
mouth in the agony Of death, and the bubbles
OF spume puff over their mouths when the
cloth is drawn. Oae man was badly woun.
ded IN the cheek, and this was tie only real
Disagreement saw. The expression ia,
Tor the most part, peaceful, and denotes
tnat the consumma,ion OF the asphy xis had
been almost perfectly painless. 1t is not
likely that 1t Is agonizng for this is the
same form OF DEATH which Paris, monopolIst
Of luxuries, for 50 long enjoined, 10 the form
or the charcoal -brazier, upon such OF her
children as wished to leave life. There is a
wonderful ruddiness abou. the faces and bo-
dies Of all these men. It pleases some Of
the bye-staGders to call it " bloat," but it is
ont attended by any puffy look { the q sh,
and l, at least cannot distinguish it from the
glow of health. II seems as if the destroyer
had had the grace 10. preserve them from
corruption. Killing, he died upon kiss.
have seen only one man whose face was
ghastly, and il was also the only face have
seen contorted. But he was spire and con-
sumptive looking, aud il may very well be
that what seemed to me deathly pallor by
contrast with his normal hue in life. But
nearly all were tortiG corpora 0iIum-fit to
be the mighty bodies Of heroes. have Ger
tainly never seen in any like number Of men
in the same rank Of life SO many noble heads
and frank faces as those which this mort
cloths has uncovered here to-day. They
were almost all Welshmeu, for few Irish
names appear upon the list of them, and
only one American, Peter Johuson, 10 said
to have been in the mine, and certainly this
dead array speaks well for the sons Of Cymri
When the smears Of the mine are washed
sway there appear close curling locks, fne,
clean cut features, and columnar necks ana
busts. Leaving on; the trans6gurlng effect
that death has, when death comes thus sud
denly, without emac'ation or disease, these
bodies show their owners to have been noble
physical men,. One man, remember espe-
ciallV. WAS grand tnrao ~ IL Law hara ,rnnu