Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-05-31
Disaster in The Coal Mines.


one Of great distress and anguish. TW.
Ere engines are here from Scranton an,
one from Wlkosbauc. The widest ex
oitement prevails throughout the valley.
At halfpast IL O'Clock last night the
succeeded ia efeetiug an entrance to thl
bottom Of the shaft aud brought TO tn
surface Andrew Morgan. He was per
Geetly insensible. They also found Hiram
Curtis, dead, lying with his face in tb,
water. At 1915 they sent up word thai
the men had barricaded themselves 10.
and sent up a cage for more men and
tools. This morning the excitement wa,
greater than ever. Up to eight O'Clock
this morning "a men had been brought to
the top, 6 Of whom we're dead. All we're
insensible when brought out, and but one
or two have so far recovered as to be able
to give an account Of themselves. Morgan
who was first discovered, is still alive,
though his recovery is doubtful. lie is
still unconscious. Exploring parties are
compelled to proceed with the. utmost
caution, and are frequently brought out
asphyxiated with foul gases. At ten A.
NJ. 30 men had been brought out, 10 Of
whom were dead. At II NJ, not more
than one or two remained in the mine.
Every one brought up for the last two
hours was found stone dead. At the scene
Of the catastrophe, the excitement was al
most indescribable. Thousands of people
crowded around the mouth of the pit, and
with difficulty were kept outside the rope
which stretched around the shaft. When
fire was discovered, at ten minutes
past 10 yesterday P. NJ, it was time to
shifts, and three carriage loads of.
men had been hoisted. Engineer McDer.
mott was soon enveloped in smoke, but
stood at his post bravoly. He hoisted
he carriage four times again, but no men
up. The seventh time the o D was
burned, and the carriage fell into the shaft.
engineer could stand no longer. His
rms were severely burned and it was
With the utmost difficulty that he escaped
With his life. b. this time the breakea
nd engine house were a mass of fire and
It 2 o'clock the burning debris covered
he ground. Thousands of persons repaired
o the scene. Five engines were tele-
for and water was brought in
from. the Sesquehanna, half a mile
A line of 500 men was formed
nd buckets were passed from on one to
he other and water was finally passed in
the shaft, out of which a dense black
continually poured, Shortly, five
ngines from Pittston, Kingston, Wilks. :
ARE and Scranton arrived and a stream 4;
f water was soon played into the mouth +
f the mine, Locomotives were at once ,
mployed in conveying water to the tanks :
} supply the fire engines, and by 6 o'clock :
heat had been so far diminished as to
How an inspection of tho shaft. At eight
zen minutes to seven o'clock a dog was
It down, and in three minutes raised S
i've. In a few momentes he was again
t down, and after remaining five min C
was raised with the same result as
'tore. At $50. VIM. Lord, Assistant e
lperintendent of the Pennsylvania Coal il
ompany, went down seventy-iee feet b
18th a rope tied around his leg. A car. is
age and platform over the mouth of the o
aft was completed, and at 7.45, Davis, Fl
arris and Wm. Warren, miners, COM b
in the mine repairing the parti- il
IN between the up cast and down cast, ii
caring away the distractions of fallen Ia
nbers as they went. As the shaft of il
e mine was twenty-eight feet deep, the Il
'rk of recovering the imperiled miners s
IS pushed with the greatest vigor, as C;
owe stated until soon after midnight, o.
len the front man was reached and sent sc
I. The fire originated from the friction s.
the wooden machinery Of the breaker,
d was communicated to the surrounding
'od work by the wrappings and pack W
The shaft has but one opening, and L
S in precisely the same condition the til
was previous to the disaster. ii
e operators of the mine were notified ID
a month ago that according to the be
of the ventilation bill, no more re
twenty miners would be allowed to y
rk on one shaft, until the second OPEN a
had been secured, and the work upon
second shaft was in progress at the
lie of the disaster.
LATER,
Midnight communicated has at last
N had with the men remaining in the
ne, and it is known that all of them We
alive, though none have, as yet, reach =
the surface. n,
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