Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-19
BRAIDW0OD'S BURIAL.
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A Mine Disa ter in an Illinois
Gal Mine Causes a Great
Loss Of Life.
a Number Of Married Men DO
to Their Death in the
Gave In.
Tho List OF Names Of the Lost
Miners land Full Partiou-
lars of tho Horrible
Catastrophe.

CHICAGO, February 16.--The Inter.
Oceans Joliet special says: The mine
which caved in here was the Diamond
mine, operated by a stock company.
The floods and recent thaw had
loosened the earth about the mouth
Of the pit, and a land slide began
about 3 o'clock this afternoon, which,
In a few minutes, imprisoned some
eighty miners. The reports from
Braidwood are very indefinite, but
place the loss Of life at from thirty
to fifty. Two thousand are already
to work at rescuing the party, but
only q few can get at the place at
once. The ave in Ia nearly ninety
feet equare. Braidwood Ia one OF the
Of the largest coal mining places in
the state. .l
THE MINI DISASTER.
BRAIDwooD, February lit Is
now thought seventy-four miners were
buried In the mine yesterday. All
hope Of Q possible rescue Of any of
those unhappy beings by the opening
of the drive way from the older shaft
into the workings was abandoned
at dusk, when the water poured into
the last named shaft. The shaft and
workmen we're compelled to abandon
their last desperate attempt at the sal.
walton Of their fellows. The escape OF
the majority Of the people wal almost
BY . miracle. The country around
the mines Ia almost dead level prairie,
and the recent rains have covered the
whole country with water. Hundreds
Of acres Of land are covered by the
mine workings, many Of which have
been worked out and abandoned. It
was through the break of the aban.
doned workings that the food poured
in to-day.
A LATER TELEGRAM
CHICAGO, February 1.-THE Trib-
une's Braidwood special gives the fol-
! lowing list of miners known to be
lost: John Huller leaves a wife and
four children, Adam McQuestion
leaves q wife and five children, Rob.
ert McQuestion, Isaac Pierson leaves
a wife and one child, James Carroll,
L. @. Abel leaves a wife aud one
| child, John Boyd leaves a wife, M,
[ Cady John Neil leaves a wife and six
children, A. Orr leaves a wife and
three children, R. Harper leaves q
wife and three children, r. @. Red.
mond leaves q wife and two children,
p. 81. Wall, Fritz Kohl, Sam.
uel Atkins leaves a wife and
six children, John Atkins leaves
q wife and two children, Geo. Bulsk-
ousky, John B~ulskousky, ]. Sullivan,
John Brookman leaves q wife and four
children, A.. Fulton Grayior leaves a
wife and two children; James Pier.
son, John Pierson, Harry Unger
leaves q wife and children, Joseph
Mathew, A. GoIenoer, Frank Mott.
leaves q wife and three children, VIM.
Kleiser, Joe Smith, O. Clotiip, John
Gudlock. Frank Klass, Adam Damn
leaves q wife and four children, e.
Damn, Joe Grotes, M Neyski, John
Dsnbrosky, Anton Dsnbrosky, ]
MUIR, II. Ramsey, ]. Saup, Matt
Bslok, John Uober, Frank
Huber, William Me- question, Adam
McQaestion, Jr.. John Rerson,
Mathew Redmond, d. M. Bridge, T..
Cosfigan, Adam Stewart, Jr., Frank
Stewart, Hugh Nesbitt, A. Bibing-
ton, John Smith, r. Roboart, George
Mathew, w. O Seron. O. Klesner. j..
Lense, John French, John johnson,
| n CtarIo- Tobo AnI,oc W;lI;,-.
McCully and Joe Rusek.
This wac the most terrible tragedy
that ever visited the Wilmington coal
fields. 1t was In the No. 2 shaft of
the Wilmington Coal, Mining and
Manufacturing company, known as
the Diamond company. 1t was eitu-
ated three and a half miles north
west of this city. The little village
of Diamods Is a scene of desolation
calculated to wiring the heart of even
the most hardened.
H SCENE ARoUND THE MINES.
Yesterday afternoon a rumor was
spread among the population of the
mining village that the ground had
caved In over the main roadway In
the Diamond shaft No. 2, and that
the water that had stood In the large
pond on the surface of the prairie
was rushing into the passages of the
mine, cutting In the mine and
drowning them In the passage.
Upon the spreading Of the rumor
large crowds Of miners wives with
children in arms, rushed toward the
scene of the catastrophe trying to hear
of their husbands and brothers and
SONS who were employed In the mines.
When the crowd reached the main
entrance of the mine they found
everything in a state of confusion.
Around the shaft were crowds of men
and m rendering any assistance
that was possible, to the half drowned
men who appeared at the entrance of
the shaft.
To the north could be seen a crowd
of men collected around an air shaft,
who were likewise fishing ont the
almost perishing men who had
climbed to the top, and would have
sunk back exhausted upon the ground
had 1t not been for the assistance of
will g hands.
The m wrung their hands as,
one by one, they ~anxiously viewed
each new face that appeared above
the ground, but found not their father
or son who was missing, and for whom
some fell down upon their knees and
offered up heartrending ami piteou.
prayers.