Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-19
NEW CRATER.

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sented it to the city of st. Lewis.
NEW CRATER.
A cablegram from Naples, dated Sept
14th. reports thata new crater has open
ed in Vesuvius in the bottom of the ole
one. The lava is flowing into the ole
crater.
/ ANOTHER PLOT OF ASSASSINATION.
1t was announced from Berlin on
the 18th that it is rumored that a new
plot against the life of the Emperor
has been discovered and several arrests
made.
THE SULTANS TRIALS.
A cablegram of the 18th lust, says:
The bakers of Constantinople have dis
continued the sale of bread because OF
the high price of wheat and the depre-
citation of currency. The Sultan there
upon remitted the grain-tax, and he has
appointed commission to devise
means for retiring the paper-currency.
The commission will recommend the
conversion Of the currency into 4 per
cent. loan, secured on specific revenues
to be set apart for that purpose.
A TERRIBLE NINE EXPLOSION.
A special cablegram of the 18th says:
England is now passing through an era
of accidents of the most dreadful ma
ture. The excitement and anguish
caused by the sinking of the excursion
boat Princes Alice on the Thames has
not subsidized to any appreciable degree,
when close upon it comes tonight the
news of terrible collierY accident in
Wales. To the horrors of this new
calamity England will awake in few
hours. The disaster occurred yester-
day afternoon at Ebbervale ColIierv,
AbercOne, near Newport, in Monmouth
shire. The pit is still on fire, and the
burning gas occasionally bursts out
from the mouth of the ventilatlng shaft.
Search-parties have been able to pen
citrate only q few yards into the main
cOuntered eighteen dead horses in the
stables. Beyond this point the fallen
timbers and the blazing woodwork and
coal gas effectually bar the way.
This disaster is the must terrible that
has ever occurred in Wales. The
scenes at the mouth of the pit are in
describable. Frantic women who have
relatives in the mine are kneeling about
the shaftway, calling Historically for
the men who are known to have gone
into the mine. The dead bouy of a
boy lone of the drivers) has been re-
covered. There is hardly any hope en-
tertained that more Of the miners are
yet alive, although it is asserted there is
distant part of the pit in which ref
uge may have been found from the
flames. The poisonous gases, however,
would soon penetrate even to the most
distant places of refuge, and render
breathing impossible.
Reverting to the first Of recent calam-
tiles, was informed tonight that 628
bodies have been recovered from the
Princess Alice. and from the river.
Cannon were fired over the Thames at
Woolwich yesterday afternoon to bring
up COrpses. Several bodies were re-
covered in that way.
TERRIBLE! TERRIBLE
London advices of the 18th inst. say
that the full extent of the terrible dis
aster in the coal mine at Abercone yes
terday is not known. At 2:30 this
morning flooding of the pit was COM
menced. At that hour the fire was
within a short distance of the bottom of
the shaft, and all hope Of further res
cues had to be abandoned. When this
decision was announced to the relatives
Of the 251 men still in the pit, the
scene was terrible beyond description.
Thirteen additional bodies of victims
were recovered before flooding the pit
AbercOne colliery is the property Of
the Ebbu Valley steel, iron and coal
properties in South Wales. It is stu
ated few hundred yards from Aber-
cone railway station, in the Western
Valley section of the Monmouthshire
railway. The pit, which is $50 yards
deep, and one Of the largest and
best worked in the district
was yielding ] 900 tons of steam coal
daily. The machinery for winding,
pumping, and ventilating was of the
best kind, and the use of the safety
lamps IN the mines was rigidly enforced.
The cause Ofthe explosion cannot even
De surmised. Volunteer explorers sue
/ ceeded In bringing out ten or twelve men
very much burned; also seven dead
bodies, but it is feared that others can
not be for the present got at in c0nse-
quence of the fire extending, and there
remains no reasonable hope that any
further lives will be saved. The whole
district of MOnmOuthshire is much ex-
cited, and it seemed as if the re fe-
male population of the district had
gathered about the mouth of the
shaft.