Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-15
The Railroad Warriors.
Booth.s Thcatrr Mortsaged.

John Jermyer, a coal operator, was to-day
sentenced to eight years and four months in
the Penitentiary, for embezzling $4,000.
Two Heavy Failures.
New York, November 13th.-The sched-
ule in the assignment of Christopher Ryley
and Leander S. Ryley to Morgan j. O'Brien,
was filed to-day in the Court Of Common
Pleas. Their liabilities are 1896, 765 nomi-
nal assets S609. 050; actual assets, $685. CAT.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Further Particulars OF the Nova Scotia
Catastrophe.
ST. ELLERToN IN. 81 November 18th
An exploring party went down the Ford pit
again this morning, but could not get further
than on the first attempt, owing to damp.
They saw evidence that the pit is on fire yet.
The pumps are stopped to allow the water to
rise and drown the fire. Only two bodies are
recovered, and hopes of getting the rest is
small. At 11:S0 last night, Gilpin, Govern.
ment inspector of Mines and local manager,
with gang of men went down the shaft and
made a short exploration. They found the
atmosphere a little clearer than during the
day, and the party were enabled to penetrate
further along the main railway to the south.
They found the bodies of three men and
number of dead horses. Two of the bodies
they were able to take with them to the sur
face, but the third was so tightly jammed
into heap of fallen timber and rubbish that
an attempt to extricate it would be mourning
certainly fall upon any one touching
it. The choke-damp was still too
thick to allow the party to carry their
explorations very far, but in one of the boards
on the start from the main railway faint
smell of smoke and slightly warmer atmos-
phere could be detected, which showed that
it was probable the fire still remained in
the mine. When the party came to the sur
! face crowd had collected to hear the latest
news. The two dead bodies were carried
| into temporary desd-house. One was iden-
| titled as that of McGillivray, but the other
was charred and disfgured as to be unreeog
nizable. One miner who escaped unframed
says that in trying to get TO the shaft he
stumbled across the PROSTATE form of an old
man. He stopped, and calling some others
running by to his assistance, got him into
the cage TO 20 to the surface, and then looked
about. He found a little boy apparently
dead. He was only inssnsible, and he got tt
little fellow and the old man to the surface,
and then found that he had rescued his own
son and his poor old father. A brother was
still below.
In the morning, James Hudson, Greener,
and two or three other picked men, went
down into the shaft. The party were able to
go further into the galleries than on the
previous night. as the choke damp was clear,
| ing away. A fire was discovered to be burn
| ing a little further on in the brick stopping,
closing another unused passage, and here
| dense black smoke was coming out with
roar like escaping steam. The two men at
once ran back to the rest of the party, and as
! all were now in the greatest danger, they
rapidly got to the pit bottom and assembled to
! the surface. The Local Manager, Govern
ment Inspector, and several of the over-men
and old miners were called to meeting in the
company's office, and the plan of the mine
was spread out On table, and the location of
| fire fixed as well as possible, and the best
action discussed. It was determined to
food the portion of the mine where
the fire seems to proceed from, as, if
prompt measures are not taken, further ex-
! pl1sons were not unlikely at any moment,
the consequence of which might be serious on
| the surface. All night the ceaseless tapping
of small hammers was heard in one of the
carpenter shops, and on returning from the
mouth of the shaft, the spectacle was one
which is not often seen. The place had been
converted into an undertaker's shop; collins
| were being made by scores that no delay
might be occasioned, the number last night
| being as high as fifty. The dangerous state
of the mine will render the recovery of bodies
| impossible for many days, perhaps weeks.
| In the dead house a huge platform was
| arscted in IL b-east b;ob 90 That there would
| ha amnIe room for the bodies "a fast as fonnd
W;II;aTn Dunbar an old man who was lamn
cls . brosaht to tbe surface is badly bnrn.
| ed on The hacf and r;gbt side and an one snot
an his chest and nose One arm ia 90 badly
burned that tbe skin neeled down over his
bands He did NOT comnls;n Of suffering
mnch which il considered a bad sign. He
has frequent delirium periods. He is 20
years old and recovery doubtful All the
| other rescued men are out of danger and able
to converse about their escape All tell the
same tale. They had suddenly been struck
down, and know nothing about the cause.
There is great mourning among the cottages,
and the blinds are down In every third or
fourth place. Those suddenly made widows
have large families of young children, and if
! generous assistance is not extended them their
suffering this winter will be great indeed.
Work has been almost wholly suspended in
the mines since the disaster.
| ST. EILEgToN. November 13th-Midnight.
Ths nit IA Hooded and all danger il consid.
| cred over. No more bodies can be recovered.
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