Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-09-24
- ROBERT YOUNG g. co.,
VA ri EI II, ,Yr.
Terrible. Calamity.

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st'a as a {, Calarnity."q oa a
lastsssS1ars +, lsnnylvgnia
;. s;Dtsdster----Ih Ihe, Dead 1t Miners, found an
,.b dsaRs5-ANe,aps efthe doomed men 20 saOe
their Hves--B Baftscddes to- slsatS Of Classes
dos ~ The Scene an tho K.cesses ofthc Mine.
Il The scertainty,of the horrible fateof the
y tniuera' at 2Ayondale, Pa, was alphodHccd in
the dispatches yesterday. The New York
y papers of.yesterday contain additional details,
. from which tho following extracts are, made,
!" A correspondent Of these New York Times,
under date Of Scranton, Pa, September 8,
says: Z
,,,., i, FINDINa THE. BODIES. ID baG
1.-THE terrible calamity at Avondalo was
proved TO tho most doubling d, tho dawn; Of
morning, when the eastern gangway was pen.
. etrated l 200 feet from the bottom Of the
shaft, aud the explorers came to a barrioade
that had been securely plo ID across the gang
nwayil Tearing this down, a horrible sight whs
~enSohntered.. The lamp shonne,n nup upon a,hesp
of,dend. A pile of human beings choked tho
passage as though they had fallen toecthertin
the last agony: Even Hughes, the inside su-
perintendent, lay but little apart from the
mass He had been resting on his hands,
ahd there was q look of placid content upon
his rigid featurcs. This was true, too, Of
nearly all in the great heap. Some few had
abrasions OF tho skin, as though they bad been
injured in falling down, and some had nm cx
preston Of Mortified supplication, as though
their last of Garth had been IN ,agprized pro
test against their fate. These were cxcep
tions. The vast majority looked like men
who were rather sleeping than dead, or like
men who accepted the inovitab'e with digni.
fed resignation !; but none had died until they
! had exhausted oil means Of saving lie. {.
WHAT PROBABLY OCCURRED IN THE NINE.
( As had been promised it. was found that at
the FIRST alarm Of danger these brave hien had
not been appalled,, but taught by instinct aud
experience, and knowing the horrible fact
that there was no means of ogrcss from the
mines except by the shaft, then .choked with
fire, they fed to the furthcst parts Of The
mine. They had not fed in panic, butohad
gone back in order and with full Knowledge
that their lives might depend upon their ao
tions, for they had but closed all the air.tight
doors behind them, and thus kept the fresh
air already in the minc and the foul air oatt
When they had rotreate behind the last
door, and found poisonous yapors still follow.
ing them, they had then hastily thrown, up
the barrioade, and filed the intersticcs with
clothing, which they had stripped from their
persons. - ndotnii
rtiE WORK OF REMOVAL . 1l2'
examiuodit vas found to contin sixty three
persSas, and Ttthout exploring the mine to
.discsser'the spots where the othors met their
\ fatepthe work Of removing them 70 The sur, yyrlr
face was begun. The air ip; tre mine was
still very bad, and the horrible heap vas nee
essarily very slowly diminished. The raising
apparatus had been destroyed by 6rc, and IAN
improviscd platform and rope and tackle Was
: poor substitute. !, The actual raising of each
|, corpse from the bottom Of the shaft to the tun
mel consumed eight minutes, and the horse ip
winding the rope upon the drum. travelled
! something over milo. Only one body could
be brought UP at once, and With the stipe 90.
oupied 10 getting Il to tie bottom Of the shaft
and bringing i out through The Il ttapnel, il can
| be readily ,ppd desstqod that tho work is not to
be completed ID q day. orovenitw03.",'s55 @ ~,
Y Al rfiE MoSsli oSTHs MINE,
I The scenes oatsidethe shaft wero scarcely
what were anticinata The crowd was. as
kgreat as on the preyIou, days, aad hardlgmoro
in keeping withthe sdhei sAs oa0h corpse
\ ,was brought opt, ,op a atoIoher, and eqyereaI
with q coasso canvas cloh, itwas placed une
der a tree, and che cloth rt,ovsa, &, MI, Pill
lips, The ne outside auporiote dent Of the mine,
4 then stepped up to identi the dead. dead y The,
4 ooroners jury viewed sh3body, and twas,
oarriedo,to the temporary ead house. The
name and residence Of the ecessed was then
u an nou npesl 10 the suYronndis crowd by JAS
y George oDiVery rarely ala sIiolssnt " ollssnt oatbtaak
Of feslieg follow. :, Che, ,sfrisas Of the tdead
came Toward claimed the, the N.Y. ,atp apd issss
I'd removed tn ,aope gases. = yHiltof ,,womans
81 Aanguisi, was heard, ip othsH low pr, Of voc,
BrippledI tjtbtsh ths Sa1paa, b blgansraliy tbe