Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-05-24

Wnkesbarre, May %. While some carpenters
who had been at work in Stanton shaft No. :, of
the Lehigh & Wilkesbare Coal Co.. were about to
be hoisted up, the carriage escaped from the
brakes and plunged downward. The engine failed
to check the descent and the men were hurled
down a hundred feet into the darkness. The shaft
is 900 feet deep. descent was made at once to
afford relief. Richard Greenough was dead and
his body horribly msngled. Benz. Corp had the
top OF his head cut Oft, and stephen Matthews
had his back broken.
In the Bastion mine at Plymouth, Robert Felrcl
killed by fall of coal day. and in the same
mine another miner met his death to-day by pre-
mature explosion. James Ryan, a driver, had his
head crushed between the buffers of two coal cars
at Pine Ridge yesterday.
The Terrible Forest Fires.
Mauch Chunk, May %. Very severe mountain
fires are raging in Carbon county for the past few
days. An immen-e amount of lumber, sawed logs
and dwelling houses have been consumed in
Hickory Run and Mud Run regions. The fires
are beyond control and nothing but a rainstorm
can extinguish them. The inhabitants of Mud
Run have suffered terribly from the fire; numer-
families only escaped with their lives, all their
household goods with their residences being de-
stroyed. Mr. Abel Kelsey, of Hickory Run, lost
his saw mills, house, barn and five occupied tene-
ments with all their contents, the inmates barely
escaping.
Their families are in destitute circumstances.
L i've saw tiSulccu houses nave DCGu
burned on Mud Run creek, and the flames are
still raging in that region, nothing seeming to
stop its progress. Stephen Gould lost above
3 900 900 feet of lumber.
The lumbermen, their wives, and even their
children turned ont to fight the flames but only in
faw cases have ther efforts been met vito sue
cess.
Disastrous COnfagratiOn.
Tyrone, May %. Reports were received here
last night hat the fire was approaching the town
of Phillipsburg, and in order to save the town
the Burgess ordered all the brush around the
town to be burned, which was done at once. Ref
ugees from Osceola, seeing the fire was near
were terribly frg htened for WHILE thinking il
would again compel them to run away from then
new shelter. Fortunately there was not much
wind and about 250 men were sent out to fight the
flames from points at which the most danger was
feared. The town of Osceola is levelled to the
ground and smoking piles of debris are all tina,
is left of it. 1t is sad to see men, women and
children looking for their lost homes. The neigh
boring towns are sending money and provisions
for the relief of the unfortunates. II. G.. Meek
of Bellefonte, arrived here last night with $500
cash, contributed by the charitable citizens of that
town, and lot of provisions, the gift of ex-Gov
Curtin.
An enthusiastic meeting was held here last
evening, and large sum of money subscribed in
aid of the Osceola sufferers.
LATER.
The fire around Osceola is abating some, bu
fears are entertained that strong wind may
cause it to increase Harris 4 Co.'S mill, reported
destroyed is standing yet. The Railroad bridge:
on the branch between Hontzdale, which were
burned, being rapidly rebuilt, and shipments
of coal will be made early next week. Hontzdal,
is not utterly destroyed, as before reported. Th,
latest accounts say only about fourteen houses IL
outskirts of the town were consumed, but NOR,
trouble is anticipated from the fact that the fire i
rapidly increasing aud still raging fearfully in tn
vicinity Reports just received from Phillpsbur;
say that the fire is not so large in that ~ gion a
last night; about 300 men worked all night fight
ing the flames.
LATEST.
Later intelligence than the above says the FIR
in Pnillipsburg is decreasing. There is but itl
wind at present, and every prospect of rau