The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-09-16
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Particulars Of the Search for the Men
No one Found Aid for the Farmf-
lies Of the Lost.

lies Of the Lost.
SCRANTON, Pa, Sept. Especial
Trains ran from here TO AyondaIe this
morning every hour, free, until i clock,
when the crowd became so dense that
they obstructed the relief parties, and
they We're suspended The whole com
snunity is thrilled with horror at the ca.
Iamlty. All work is suspended in the
mines in this vicinity, and nearly the
whole force OF miners, in their mining
suits, have gone to Avondale. to remain
until their brethren are brought out
dead or alive. Thousands have gone
from this direction alone, and the whole
country is aroused and hpcking to the
scene Of disaster. In the Fourth, Fifth,
and Sixth, or Hyde Park wards of this
city the streets are thronged with wo-
men, and the relatives and friends OF the
men in the Ayondale pit. eagerly be-
seechlng every person arriving from be-
low for information, and their weeping
fills the air.
Mining cannot be resumed at any Of
the works Of the Delaware Lackawana
and Western Railroad Company mine
within week, not at least until all the
funerals of the Ayondale dead are over.
The fact of the long and severe strike
adds greatly to the restitution which will
follow the calamity. The widows and
orphans will number not less than 60
TT eight 0 clock the crowd was cleared
and rope enclosure made around the
mouth OF the Shaft by the police. The
engine and fan were got to work at .: 40,
and shortly after it was connected with
the canvass conductor that reaches the
bottom of the shaft, 237 feet. At 1920
Snperinlent Corwin, of the HAMPTON
mine, and 81 r. Davis, carpenter. of
Avondale. descended 100 feet. and lower
ed thirteen lamps to within fifteen f ,et
of the bottom of the shaft The lamps
burned freely. After remaining In the
shaft forty minutes they returned from
reconnitering. At Ills George I. Nor
can. ohm Howell Thomas +. Davis. a
committee of miners, descended the
shaft slowly and with care.
At 1875 they assembled to the mouth
of the shaft, reporting that after leaving
the platform which they went down
they proceeded about thirty feet into
the gangway, and, finding a great deal
carbomc-acid gas and black damp, re-
treated after carrying thu end of the
large canvass air-conveyor As far into the
nine as they went. The damp was be-
tween two and three feet deep on the bot
tom OF the mine.
At ll:55 Reese Evans. Thomas Car
son, Charles Jones and Isaac Thomas,
another miners committee. began de
scent into the shaft. The force pump
was kept constantly III motion during all
the time forcing fresh air into the mine. |
During these proceedings at the shaft |
company Of fifty volunteers Was formed |
and regularly differed by the miners to |
descend and recover the bodies OF their |
COMPANIONS
Rev. Mr.. Hunt headed committee OF
twenty citizens, who canvassed the I'M |
,n,nse throns with subscription books |
for the orphans AMI widows OF the uniur-
tanate victims. The most experienced !
miners gave up all hope OF finding any
alive III the nine. Eorty-six miners /
we're enrolled under the SUPERINTENDENT,
james George, Of Plymouth. and Henry |
W. Evans, Of Pittston. George Nor !
gan, Of the Nlnticock mines, was al'- /
pointed foreman on the part OF the min
ers. and Thomas Davis, of Nantlcock, /
and John H. Powell, of Taylorvilc, "a |
alvisars They have the direction OF /
operations After The descent was mad. +
tire. hnnlred miners from Cnalylile ar !
riyel. aud there are thousands upon the /
s~au.lls ia the immediate vicinity, nearly /
half Of them women aud children.
loo p. M.-The second party of men !
returned safely, as did the first. They !
nenetrated the gangway distance or
seventy i've feet and found the large door
wide omen. They then went a hundred
feet futher in one of the passages and
found small door closed. After open
ing this door. to give it circulation OF
ait around to the entrance, they return
ed. Had this door small door been open
there might haze been some hope, as the
r,s and smoke aud fire would have had
free passage around the circuit and out
again. lAs it Is, the fears that the smoke
has penetrated the inner mime and sutfo-
Gated all the men. The main doorway
leading to the mine has not yet been
reached.
The third set of men, four in number,
went do .sn and came back in fifteen min
utes, two of them so overcome with the
effects of gas that they are being rcstor-
ed with difficulty. The gas is coming out
of the mine very fast since the lassage-
-vay was opened. The widest excitement
prevails aud the mass of people are
kent back with great difficulty.
$50 p. NJ The two miners are saved
at last. It seems wild to peril life by
any further attempt to go down as long
a. the gas Is SO strong. No attempt can,
OF course, be made to reach the main
door or to penetrate the mine until the
outer ga5gway is cleared OF gas. 1t Is
uncertain how long this will take. There
IS really no ground to hope that a single
life remains Of those who went down to
work In the mine Every body gives
I ,t,.,t1l
to be done but to recover their bodies.
3.l3p. M.-Four men descended aud
returned in good condition, They report
cd the air much purer.
$50 r. 81. -Four men, John Tisdale,
Hardness, John SatterIee and r. r. B.
Jones, went down, after letting down
the water hose to the bend of the air
pipe and over the furnace, to put water
on aud deaden the fire in the furnace.
They returned in fifteen minutes, saying
chat the water hose had landed in the
shaft aud that they could not find the
hoe by which they expected to enter
They we're not seriously affected by the
foul air.
T:lor. M-Another relay of four men
went down and returned in about twenty
minutes, reporting that they had been at
4Le furnace and found everything all
right except the fire in the furnace, which
WAS still burning They could not ar
range the water-pipe until it was hoistcd
up little. They were not seriously at
feced by the foul air.
~ s State Elections.
The following State elections are to
come off this year:
Sept. ,. Vermont-State officers and
Legislature.