Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-16

DISCOVERY OF THE BoDIEs-A TER.
RIBLE SPECTACLE.

The horrors Of the scene at the collier
are just being developed. The mine which
has proven the death-ehsmber of two
hundred men is opened, and the dead
have been broaght forth: Man Who wen,
down happy Monday morning, eager {.
resume their long-suspended work, cam.
forth stark and cold in death to-day. Tn.
miners homes, which, in long row, front
the opening of the tunnel, are swept Of
every male member I; and the women sit
with stified cry and pallid lips, at the
doors, waiting the arrival of their dead
About eight o'clock this morning the first
door of the gangway was broken in, and
sixty bodies were found there. Their
situation was awful fathers lay stiff in
death. with their arms about their sons
Some were kneeling. a. though in prayer
strong men were hand in hand With
their fellows. The pick-axes and shovel,
which they had used in making an en-
bsnkment to prevent the entrance of foul
air, lay one side. 1t seemed, then, thai
they fed few steps, when in an agony
they fell in one another's arms, suffocated
by the deadly damp. In another chamber
every man vas without q shirt. They
stripped themselves of clothes to use them
in filling up crevices and crannie>, One
man had pushed a part Of his garment
into an aperture, when a gust of the ga.
rushed through and strangled him 70
death Wagon loads of collins line the
road, and htters filed with sheeted dead
pass along the line every few minutes. A
they are brought out of the tunnel an in
quest is held; the dead are exposed for
recognition; and, when one is identified,
the Justice calls out his name and home,
his friends take the body aud convey it to
their house. Already the dozen mules
have caused an insuf.rable stencil, hav-
ing swollen and bursted. The men who
60 down to bring up the corpses have to
pass these carcasses in order to get at the
dead; and the stencil, together with the
gas, which has not yet been pumped out,
makes it difficult to bring them up. The
solemnity Of the place is not alone that
which impresses the spectator. The weep
ing women and loudly crying children
strike the spectator with sadness; but the
active rescuers, and the Provision Com
mittee, and the police and hucksters, and
tho Unconditional miners, make IL painful.
~ obvious that the present IL time for
business, and not for mourning alone.
. WHAT oCcUKRED IN THE NINE.
Az had been promised, it was found
that ct the first alarm of danger thsss
brave men had not besn APPALLED,, but,
taught By instinct and experience, and
moving the horrible fact that theirs was
no means Of egrsss from that mine except
By the shaft, then choksa with Are, they
had Ned 70 the fnethest part Of the mine.
They had not ~ in panic, bat had gone
back IN order, and with fall knowledge
that their lives might depend upon their
setioaa for they had but closed all the
alright doors behind then, and thus
Kept The frssh air ALREADY In the mine and
The 3oul air out. When thsy had retreat
ID behind the last door, and found pois-
onous vapoes still following them, they
had thsa hastily thrown mp the basriosds
md A,isd the intssstjoss With oloehins,
vhish they haA stripped from thsir per-
a - AT THE MOUTH
An y confusion about The shaft and a.
each oar o. baskst comes up frsightsd
With lie liSslsss cargo there u always sumo
- 70 discover that be b NY husband
q 0sd r 20, God 10 Il ny bretbss, hs
y ny 1atAKs' sto, I'D after witnsssing
With their own eyo what expsrisnosd
wisdom failsd 10 make them believe they
IN peustxsts 70 the ground. worn out and
st he culminatjon q The most
A9o0ixinR oo1amitv- that sveeonooufrsd In