The New York herald., 1878-09-12
Paris American Colony in Aid of
the Stricken South.
MASSACHUSETTS, AGAINST LANCASHIRE.
Details Of the Way In Which
Mehemet Ali Died.
IBY CABLE TO THE HERALD.1


LONDON, Sept. -, 1878.
England is now passing through an era OF
accidents Of the most dreadful nature. The
excitement and anguish caused by the sink
ing of the excursion boat Princess Alice on
the Thames has not subsidized to any ap-
preciable degree when close upon it
comes. tonight, the news of q ter
rible colliery accident in Wales. To
the horrors of this new calamity England
will awake in few hours. The disaster oc-
Cured yesterday afternoon at Ebbw Vale
colliery, Abercarn, near Newport, in Mon
mouthshire. There were 81 men in the
pit when the explosion of coal gas occurred.
and at the latest accounts, dated nine
o'clock last evening, only ninety miners
had been rescued. It is feared there are no
other survivors.
STILL BURNING FIERcELY.
The pit is still on fire and the burning
gas occasionally bursts out from the mouth
OF the ventilating shaft. Search parties
have been able to penetrate only few
yards into the main entrance to the mine,
where they encountered eighteen dead
horses in the stables Beyond this point
the fallen timbers and the blazing wood
work and coal gas effectually bar the way.
SCENES OF SORROW.
This disaster is the most terrible that has
ever occurred in Wales. The scenes at the
mouth of the pit are Understandable. Fran
tic women who have relatives in the mines
are neeling about the shaftway calling
hysterically for the men who are known
to have gone into the mine, but
who answer not to their names
The last nine men rescued from
the pit at about eight o'clock were badly
burned, some Of them, indeed, terribly dis
figured. The dead body Of boy, o ne of the
drivers, has been recovered. There is hardly
any hope entertained that more of the
miners are yet alive, although it is asserted
that there is distant part of the pit in
which refuge may have been found from the
flames. The poisonous gases, however,
would soon penetrate even to the most dis
lant place of refuge and render breathing
impossible
NO MORE HOPE.
According to the latest advices the pit
is still burning, and the managers are dis
cussing the propriety of flooding it, as
it seems certain all the men are either
burned to death or suffocated. The flood
ing will probably be briefly delayed until
the last hope that any are alive is extin-
guished. The number of the dead is
estimated at two hundred and eighty.
Two of the rescued have since died
from their burns. Others are in u preca-
rious condition. There is not the slightest
hope of rescuing any more alive, as the
workings are very intricate and extend over
three miles. So far only about seven corpses
have been recovered. The explosion oc-
Cured soon after noon. Those on the
bank knew it by rumbling noise and the
ascent Of q dense volume of smoke. All
The people in the district rushed to the pit
mouth in CONSERVATION.
OVER SIX HUNDRED.
Reverting to the first Of the recent calami-
ties, / was informed tonight that 62S bodies
had been recovered from the Princess
Alice and from the river. Cannon were
fred over the Thames at Woolwich, yester-
day afternoon, to bring up corpses. Sew
eral bodies were recovered in that way.
From the above it will be seen that England
has her griefs and her burdens of woe to
carry az we'll as the United States.
GOOD woBx IN PARIS.
Tho HERALps Paris correspondent tele-
graphs that subscriptions were opened in
the French capital among the American
colony in aid of the yellow fever sufferers
in the South. There was one anonymous
contribution of 10.ooOf (s2, ,Ooo) Money
was coming in rapidly up to late hour
last night.
srAoSArros IN THE COTTON TRADE
As II England's cup OF sorrows were not full
enough at this moment there comes the add.
tionM spectre Of depressed trade In many
branches OF her great manufacturing inter.
ests The suffering has already begun In the
iron industries, and jogging from an editorial