Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-16
A THRILLING WELSH STORY.
A Body of Golfers Imprisoned Ten
Days i'm an Inundated Mine-An
Event Which Aroused the Sympathy
of all England and it's Queen.
L1VerpOOI COrTeS. N. I. W OfIu.

Liverpool Cores. n. Y. World.
During period of nearly ten days a
terrible battle has been raging in the
Welsh colliery of Troedyrhiw, battle
in which death savagely fought on one
side and the brave miners of Pontypridd
on the other. The tale is one that will
live long in the homes of the Rhondda
valley. It is story the details of which
have been given day by day and which
has stirred to the lowermost depths the
sympathies of the English people, and
enlisted the earnest solicitude of the
Queen herself. Day after day since the
strange calamity occurred which closed
number of hapless miners in living
tomb, the first tidings for which the
newspaper was searched at every house
hold table has been the latest report
When the news had been read that the
miners were still entombed public SYM
pathy and interest gradually quickened
into an absorbing anxiety which con-
verted the battle waged SO long and
earnestly for life into national event.
In was on April y, just as the day-shift
golfers were quitting the Troedyrhiw pit
when the catastrope occurred. Some
last incautious blow, or some accidental
breach Of wall or vein, burst the thin
partition which held back a vast
concealed reservoir Of subterfanean
water, when suddenly with rush like
that Of an angry incoming sea, black
Cocytus Of food broke in upon the mine.
Filling the lower galleries and bottom of
the shafts, driving before it the atmos-
phere from every portion of the work
ings, this mysterious deluge cut off two
parties of men, who escaped with diff
Guilty from the peril of immediate
the first and second adits of the mine
nearest the upper shafts. No sooner was
it known that a number of operatives
were missing than scores Of brave, hardy
volunteers were forthcoming to rescue
their fellows. Many at once descended
the shaft, which is 276 feet deep, and
, entered the workings. 1t was then as
certained that all the workings within a
few hundred yards of the bottom of the
shaft were filled with water to the roof,
and no hope was entertained that any
one would be discovered alive. While
the explorers were consulting as to what
movement should be made, faint tap
pings were heard on the other side of the
coal, as was conjectured, at distance of
thirty or forty feet No sooner was this
discovery made than a score of men
threw off their coats and with mandrils
commenced cutting through the solid
mass. The imprisoned were also at
work. Throughout the night, relays of
men toiled with desperate, untiring
energy, cheered and encouraged by the
tapping and sounds of labor of the i'm
Eprisoned men. The task was very labori-
Gus, it having to be performed in deep
water, but such was the progress made
that on the following morning mandril
struck through and hole was made
into that part of the pit where five men
were shut up. The next moment ter
rife explosion occurred and one of the
imprisoned, miner named Morgan, was
hurled into the opening, where the res
cuers found him dead. The inundation
had been so sudden as to imprison the
air in the inner workings, and the force
OF this had kept back the water from
the five men in that locality. The mo-
ment small hole was cut by Morgan's
mandril this volume of imprisoned air
escaped and hurled his body into the
opening and his soul into eternity. His