The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-09-14
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rLH MItTA "a
7be ltogrqgs u ilte scene a thc cot
lierg So jast beng Developed Ihc
miu which las proven tbs death
chamber q two hundred mtr
opened. and the dead have been
brougatior'h. Man who wert do0B
imFpy heujay nsmumt. eager tore
sumo their song-saspeuacd work,
came f5rih stark aud cold b death
To-day TIE miners bomes, whieb,
- a long row, trout Tire opening ~
the tunnel are swept 9; every ualc
member; aud the women so, with
s,.aed cry and pallid Yrs, a tlc
doors. waiting the arrit ~ ~ their
dead About eight O'Clock tbs
mouins the 6rst door 81 the gang
way was broken 10 and sixty bodies
were found there. Their situation
was aWhl; fathers law stit III death
with their arms about tleir SONS.
Some were kueclug as though ID
PRAYER strong men were hand IN
hand with their fellows. The pick
axes and shoycls which they had
used IN making an embukment 10
prevent rhe entrance Of fcul air, lay
one side. II seemed, then, that they
had fed few steps, when in an az
ony they fell in one an0ther's arms,
sutlocated by the deadly damp. la
another chamber every man was
without shirt. They stripped
themselves OF clothes % use them in
filling up creyices and crannies.-
One man had pushed a part Of his
garment into an aperture, when a
gust Of the gas rushed through and
stangled him to death Wagon
loads Of collins line the road and ht-
ters filed with sheeted dead pass
long the line every few minutes.
As they are Aroug ht out Of the tnn-
mel and inquest is held the dead
are exposed for recognition; and,
when one is identified, the Justice
calls out his name and home; bis
friends take the body and convey it
to their house. Already the c6zen
mules have caused and insufferable
stencil, having swollen and bursted.
The men who 90 down to bring mp
the corpsts have to pass these car
casses in order to get at the dead !;
and the stencil, together with the
gas, which has not yet been pump
ca out, makes it difficult to bling
them up. The solemnity Of the
place is moi alone that impresses the
spectator. The weeping women and
loudly crying children strike the
spectator with sadness ; but the act
i've rescuers ard the Provision Com
mitiee, and the police and bucksters
and the Unconditional miners, NAL c
it painfully obvious that tie present
is 4 time for business, and not for
mourning aloI e.
WHAT OCCURRED IL THE MIME.
AS had been promised, il was
found that at the first alarm OF dan
rel these brave men had not been
appalled,, but, taught by instinct and
experience, and knowing that there
was no means OF cgress from that
mine except by tile shaft, then
clicked with fire, they had fed to
the furthcst part Of then inc. They
had not fled in panic, but had gone
back III order and with full knowl-
edge that their lives might depend
upon their actions, for they had bat
cloged all the air-tight doors behind
them, and thus kept the fresh air all
ready in the mine and the foul air
ont. When they had retreated be-
hind the last door and found poison
GUS yapors still follow ing them, they
had then hastily thrown up the bar
ricade and filled Tie interstices with
clothing, which they had stripped
nun liiIll l'oAn0iio'
AT TIE MOUTH.
All is confusion about the Shaft, and
rs each car or basket comes up with
It's lifeless cargo there is always some
one to discover that he is Ny hus-
band Oh, God r "Oh, God he
is my brother, he is my father" etc,
and after witnessing with their
own eyes what experienced wisdom
failed to make them belie1e, they fell
PROSTATE to the ground, worn out
and distracted at the elimination Of
the most agonizing calan ity that ev-
or occurred in this country. Up to
the las. moment the wives, children
and relatives hoped against hol e
that the doomed N en- might be
found alive, but as one blackened
corpse after another was brought
out Il c low sobs of the women broke
out into shricks and walls Of agony
as they recognized the remains Of
their friends. Even men were not
unmoyed by the piteors spectacle,
and many an eye was dimmed with
tears as the bodies Of the comrades,
relatives and friends were laid side
by side npon the grass. The mon
who were engaged in forcing their
way into the mine with untiiing en-
ergy, and, ii any spur Was needed,
the agonizod ontrcahes OF the WON
en- encouraged Il em to superhnman
oxertions. Ii was lad 70 sec the lit
tie children cliheing q their moth
cis and. wailing IN sympathy viii