Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-14

allow the party to carry on their explora-
tions very far, but in one of the boards or
starts from the main railway faint smell
of smoke, and slightly warm atmosphere
could be detected, which showed that it was
not improbable that the fire still remained
in the mine. When the party came to the
surface crowd had collected to hear the
latest news. The two dead bodies were car
ried into the temporary dead house. One was
identified as that of MCGilluvay, but the
other was so charred and disfgured as to be
unrecognizable.
One miner, who escaped unharmed, says
in trying to get to the shaft he stumbled
across the prostrate form of an old man. He
stopped, and calling some others running
by to his assistance, got him into the cage
to 60 to surface, and then looked about. He
found little boy apparently dead. He was
only insensible, and he got the little fellow
and old man to surface and then found he
had rescued his own son and his poor old
father. A brother was still below.
In the morning JAS. Hudson, Greener and
two or three others, picked men, went down
into the shaft. The party were able to go
further into the galleries than the previous
night. as the choke damp was clearing way
The man who the night before thought he
detected signs Of fire again investigated the
same place, and going further into the pas
sage with Greener, soon found unmistakabIe
indication that he was right. A little further
on brick stopping closing another unused
passage was found, and here dense black
smoke was coming out with roar like es-
Gaping steam. The two men at once ran
back to the rest of the party, and as all
were now in the greatest danger, rapidly got
tn no NIT hNk md IaI b. L.
face.
The local manager, government inspector
and several of the overmen and old miners
were called to meeting in the company's
Office and the plan of the mine was spread
out on table. The location of the fire was
fixed as we'll as possible and the best means
of action discussed. It was determined to
food the portion of the mine where the fire
seems to proceed from, as if prompt means
were not taken further explosions were not
unlikely any moment with consequences
which might be serious on the surface.
Ali night the ceaselsss tapping of small
hammers wero heard ia one of the carpen-
ter shops and on returning from the mouth
of the shaft the spectacle was one which is
not often seen. The place had been con-
verted into an undertaker's shop. Cofins
were being made by the score that no delay
might be oceasioned. The number of the
lost might be as high as fifty. The danger
Gus state of the mine will render recovery of
the bodies impossible for many days, per-
haps weeks. In the dead house huge plat
form is erected id it, breast high, SO that
there would be ample room for the bodies as
fast az found.
An old man viewed the body which could
not be recognized the night before and he at
once identified it by the clothes as that of his
son-in-law, Job Skinner. The boots and
legs are charred, one hand roasted, the face
burned black, and the top of the head
crushed to jelly. The body of McGiluvay
is but little disfgured, his death having evi-
IDENTIFY been caused by choke damp. The
inquest will be commenced by DR.. Murray
at ~ o'clock in the village.
William Dunbar is in bed iu a semi-un-
conscious condition. He is the only rescued
man who is seriously injured. He was a
lamp cleaner and had cabin at the bottom
of the pit. He is unable to speak long
enough to tell his story, but his wife says as
far as she can gather from what he said he
was in his cabin at the time of the explosion.
He saw the fire burst in the back door and
he rushed out the front and fell on his face.
His oil soaked clothing had, however, caught
fire and was burning, when his son, in COM
ing to the pit bottom, found him, extin-
guished his garments, and with some assist
ence got him to the surface. The old man
is badly burned on the back and right side,
in one spot on his chest, on his nose and
one arm was so badly burned that the skin
peeled down over his hand. He did not
complain of suffering much, which is consid-
cred bad sign. He has frequent periods of
delirium. His recovery. Is considered very
doubtful. He was seventy years old and had
been IN the mining business forty-seven
years. He had two sons in the mine with
him. One is lost and the other rescued.
The rescued mon are out of danger and
able to converse about their escape. ALI tell
the same tale. They have been suddenly
struck down and know nothing of the cause.
Some of the escapes were very narrow.
Three little boys working near the entrance
to the south side were found in heap
against an arch, by a coal box, and were
found there insensible, while horse close
by was killed and completely roasted. The
body of the horse and the coal box had kept
the force of the explosion from the lads.
The flame, which was but momentarily
seen, jumped several yards inside of the
south entrance, right across the pit bottom,
and killed and roasted number of horses
several yards inside of the north gallery; vet
there are no marks of fire between these
two points.
There is great mourning among the cot
tages. The blinds are down in every third
or fourth PLACE. Those suddenly made wild
ows have large families of young children,
and if generous assistance. is not extended
them their sufferings this winter will be
great indeed.
Work has been almost wholly suspended
in the mines since the disaster.
Measures have been taken to flood that
part of the pit where the fire is supposed to
be raging.
SrEnLERroN, N. g., Nov. |{Later.1
The pit is flooded and all danger considered
over. No more bodies can be recovered.
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