The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-12
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To-Dav's Dispatches.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Eastern Question

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Sept. l2.-It is said
the Russians at Kutstendje, on the Black
Sea arc again arming the batteries which
they dismantled month ago, and that or
ders for the departure of the Russian
troops has been countermanded.
LONDON, Sept, l2.-Roumania has re-
served for q separate decision the ques-
ton Of occupying the Dobrudscha, the pop
ulation Of which are reported hostile 10 the
Roumanians.
to 700 men killed and wounded at Bibaco.
1t is reported the influence ofGo-tschakoff
is paramount at St. Petersburg, and
Schouvalof has been released from Office
at his own request.
CoNsTANTTNoPLE, Sept IL. The bak-
ers of Constantinople discontinued the
sale of bread because Of the high price of
wheat and the depreciation of currency.
The sultan thereupon remitted the grain
tax, and he has appointed commission to
devise means for retiring paper currency.
The Albanian insurgents have celebrat-
ed the messacre of Mehemet Ali Pasha as
victory. The agitation in Albania is in
creasing; fresh outrages are apprehended,
and Christians are fleeing, into Montene-
gro.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, Sept I2.-Full account of the
terrible disaster in the coal mine at Aber-
corne yesterday is now known. At half
past two this morning the flooding of the
pit was commenced; at that time the fire
was within short distance of the bottom
of the shaft, and all hopes of further res
cues had to be abandon. When this de.
cision was announced to the relatives oi
25l men still in the pit the scene was ter.
rible, beyond description. Thirteen addi
tional bodies of the victims were recovered
before the flooding of the pit began.
The Abercorne colliery is the property
of the Ebbrovale Steel, Iron 4 Coal Co..
one of the largest iron and coal proprie
tors in South Wales, It is situated few
hundred yards from Abercorne railway
station, in the western valley section o
Monmouthshire The railway pit which
is $50 yards deep, and one of the larges
ans best worked in the district, was yield
| ing one thousand tons of steam coal daily
The machinery for winding, pumping, anC
ventiIating was of the best kind, and th'
use of safety lamps in the mine was rigid
ly enforced. The cause of the explosion
cannot even be surmised; three detona
tons were successively heard on the sur
face; the frame works and castings of th,
pit were thrown to height of three hund
red feet above the mouth of the shalt
The colhery employees number upward o.
a thousand hand, of whom 373, taking thei
t0rn or shift, went down at / o'clock il
the morning; twentY-one of this numbe
came up to noon, up to which time nothing
had occurred tocreate suspicion of danger
at 1890 in the afternoon
loud rumbling noise was hear
quickly followed by fash of fam
from the pits mouth and a column o
smoke dust and debris ascending high i
the air. The explosion damaged a wind
ing gear, thus destroying the only mean
of communication with the men in the pit
As soon as the gearing could be repaired
working parties we're sent down the shat
and eighty.two men and boys workln
within a few hundred yards OF the shat
were rescued, but it became evident a
attempts were made to advance into th
workings that little hope could be entel
tanned of any life surviving. About lou
hundred yards from bottom of shaft ar
stables, and here IA horses we're found dead
, beyond this point the explorers could nc
go on account of the impurity of .tf
air and the prevalence of choke daml
Volunteer explorers succeeded in bringin
out ten or twelve men very much burn
also seven dead bodies, but it is feare
that no others can be for the preseI
be got at in consequence of the fire e,
: tending, and there remains no reasonab
. !. hope that any further lives viii be save
: The whole district of Monmouthshire
: much excited, and it seemed last night
if the entire female population of the di
trict had gathered about the mouth of Il