Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-06
THE SOUTH.
Virginia.


The Imprisoned Coal Miners.
RICHMOND, Feb. "a majority of the un-
injured coal miners have remained from ear
ly dawn to-day about the mouth of
Grove shaft at Midlothian, Chester county,
the scene of the late explosion. These sur
vivors have been anxious to do something to
rescue the bodies of their late comrades and
Populations, composing both white and COL
ored miners, have been let down into the
pit to see what could be done. Late Satur-
day evening the broken brattice through which
pure air was forced in the mine, was repaired,
when body, that of colored miner, was
found some distance from the foot of the
shaft. None of the efforts made to-day were
successful in penetrating for the past bottom
shaft until deputation went down at 2:3O
o'clock, when the body of another man, sup
posed to be that of the colored fireman,
Summels, was discovered. The men had ev-
identity been killed by after damp. Opera
tions have been suspended until tomorrow
The following is list of the men who
were in the mine at the timeof the explosion,
their supposed ages, places of nativity,
whether married or single and the number of
persons in the family of each: William Mar
shall, aged forty-f five years, of Percy Maine,
England had wife and four children. Thorn
Hall, thirty-five years, Chesterfield, Va;
had wife and four children. George Jewett,
jr., twenty-one, Chesterfield, Va; wife and
four children. A. w. Jewett, thirty, Ches-
terfield,5 Va; wife and one child. James
Brown, thirty-three, probably from George
town, d. c.; wife and three children. James
Hail. thirty three, Chesterfield, Va; wife and
five children. Joseph Cournow, twenty-one,
Chesterfield, Va; single, but leaves a widow
ed mother with seven children. John Nor
ris, twenty-three, Chesterfield, Va; single.
Joseph Shields, fifty, Durham, England;
wife and children now in England. Richard
Coghill sixty-six, Chesterfield, Va; one child
living. Richard Morgan, forty Chesterfield,
Va; wife and four children. Robert Binford,
forty, Chesterfield, Va; wife and seven child
dren. Samuel Cox, forty-fve. Chesterfield
wife and one child. Pleasant Stewart, thirty,
eph Cunliff, sixty, CHESTERFIELD, Va; wife
and three stepchildren. Beverly Brooks, fif-
ty, Chesterfield, Va wife and several chill
drep. Aleck Logan, forty, Chesterfield, Va.
wife and children. Peter Harper, forty,
Richmond, Va. ; wife and children Major
Pollard, thirty, Chesterfield, Va; wife and
three children. Solomon Taylor, forty,
Chesterfield, Va; wife dead, four children
living. Squire Bright, ffty-fve, Chester
field, Va. wife and six children. John
Green, fifty-fve Chesterfield, Va. wife and
one child. Lewis Hobbs, fifty-fve, Dinwid-
die, Va. wife and six children Daniel
Hammond, thirty-two, Powhatan, Va WIFE
Isham Graves, twenty-one Chesterfield, Va;
single. Edward Ross, ffty-fve, Chester
field, Va; single. Robert Booker, eighteen,
Chesterfield, Va; single. Tom Summers,
forty; wife and five stepchildren. Albert
Hughes, thirty; wife and seven children.
James Mills, thirty, Chesterfield, Va. wife
and two children. Jeff Coleman, forty-fve,
Chesterfield, Va. wife and three stepchil-
dren. Fred Anderson, twenty three, Ches-
terrified, Va single John Green (colorea)
was in the upper portion of the same shaft in
May, 1876, when an explosion occurred. He
was working with Charles Holder, who was
killed. Holder was thrown cut of the buck
ct. Green held fast to the rope and was
hauled out Ned Ross, also colored, wss in
the shaft in May, 1876. He was working at
the bottom and was rescued barely alive. He
was in about the same place yesterday when
the explosion occurred by which he lost his
life Joseph Cournow (white) is a son of
Thomas Cournow, who was one of the pit
bosses, and lost his life in the explosion of
May, 1876. Solomon Taylor (colored),
among the killed yesterday, was also in the
explo sion of 1876 and escaped.