Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-10
i1-EEGfSG T!i:. i:EtE.
Sc. re aug fer the Victims of the Nine N:!o
sion Ia Cr!,.e- Vile.

Ss.rclIu,, fer the Victims of the Nine N;'!o
sion IL CGu.:e-viic.
Tn str..'IEi,.,i and hurnGd no,lie;; r' The
nien who were killed in the mine explosion
at Cou!tcrsvi.ic, Ill.,. lie ia he pubic ;..il,
dress c.i and arranged for the corCncr';; III
quest. They are the victims OF the cs?lu-
SIGN on TuCsday in tho Jones * NeS5it
mine. NJ. NcsHit, one Of the owucrs OF
the mine, volunteered to be one of the
wrecker.s to go to the rcscmc, and the cage
was immediately lowered. The smCkc
was yet TOO dense, however, AMI the
cage came back. This WAS repeated four
times without result. Nn:hirg could be
done for several llours. Therefore Il toIc-
gram was sent to the neishbGrinG town OF
White Oak for {. fore" of miners. These
manned the cage aud descended. Tho
smoke was still thick bel wv, but atec
about an hours work they penetrated 100
yards through the debris to where James
King lay dead on his face, though his body
was still warm. A dead mule was next
found, AID another hundred yards further
the nine men were discovered lying ,;;Iy a
short distance apart, most of them face
downwards.
Frank Brown ard two others were badly
burned, but the reminder had been
strangled.
The work Of removal was slow and
dangerous. but nc further accidents oc
Cured. Light OF the dead were married,
and tie accident renders twenty tive
children fatherless. They Wee TIE most
popli II miners in the place, and were al
young and strong. The explosion was
evidently caused by fire damp. The mine
WAS very badly ventilated there b:ing hn'
ono opening, and 20 air s1aft 1t
all. IL lad been in operation ten
years, and the only previous acci
dent was that of two years ago when
two men were badly burned. The pres
dent OF tho town board issued q plOcIa
houses, which has been done. The bodies
will be inferred as soon rs tie inquest is
held. Some OF the citizens We're up all
night preparing the dead for burial.
Coul:eIvile is fOrty-seyen miles from St.
Louis, and has about 10000 inhabitants.
The Spell OF Weather.
1t showed " hard /" all day Tuesday at
Rome, Georgia, but the snow melted as it
fell. A heavy northeast snow storm set
in at Richmond, Va, at one o'clock Tues
day afternoon. kilograms received from
along the line of the Chesapeake Il Ohio
lLlilO.lt ShO" titsiV OiiO Stol iii SAltGtCI do
far west as Ashland, Kentucky. During
the twenty-four hours ending Tuesday
evening, six inches Of snow fell in Iowa.
The weather, which had been very cold
the thermometer having marked zero or
lower every day since the 1st of January,
and reached 81 below zero Tuesday morn.
in9-was modeTatug in the evening, and
had almost reached the thawiDc POINT.
Throughout Northern Illinois Tuesday
morning the temperature ranged from
10 to 30 degrees below zero. 1t Chicago
it had risen to Il above zero in the after
nGGiI.
Wholesale Riot In AspinwaII.
\ riot occurred at Aspnwall on Deccr,-
ber %, on the arrival of the English
steamer Medwav. Some Jamaicans, of
whom there al" thousands here, attempted
to 60 on the :1ll.r! to meet their country
men arriving to 60 to work on the canal,
bat were refused admission by The dock
guard. The latter were attacked by the
mob and one Of their number killed and
another wounded. The police were called
out. armed with riffs, ard are SAID to
have commenced an indscriminate fusi-
lade, shooting right and lett at every
group of Jamaicans they saw in the street.
Several were wounded and two were