Daily globe., 1883-02-21
The Br0id,coOd Dead.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

BRA1DwooD, ILL.,, Feb. 20.-The situation
o'clock last night the water had been re-
duced eighteen feet in the air shaft but
suddenly began filling up rapidly and the
pumps proved inadequate to the demand.
For fully two hours the water raised in the
shaft but was finally gotten under control
again by the arrival of more pumps, which
were Immediately put into position and
began work. The water pumped out
flooded around the coffer-dam and oozed
through back into the shaft and the cave. A
report has gained circulation that the water
was flowing down through an abandoned
shaft, and that all the water pumped out
would Immediately find its way back into
the mine. At II o'clock five pumps were
all at work. Superintendent Mackey
thinks that the water could be lowered ff-
teen feet this afternoon. No bodies have
been found. 1t was thought some would
raise when the pumping began but none
have yet appeared. Cannon have been fred
at the mouth of the air shaft, but without
effect. 1t is thought quite number of
the dead lie near the air shaft and are
prevented from rising by the winding
stairs used as means of escape.
BRAIDwooD, ILL.,, Feb. 20.-It looks much
more cheerful here to-day. The water in
the main shaft has been lowered fully
twenty feet and it can be safely said prog
ress is being made although slowly. a
number of anxious faces still crowd around
the hole where the disaster occurred, peer
ing aimlessly into the sunk hole. The
water has ali nearly disappeared in the
cove, leaving the hole about the shape of
the bowl Of a funnel, 150 feet by
ninety and about 150 to $50 deep.
The Golfer dam around this is built on ice
aud with the softening weather the water
sleeps and oozes back into the hole. The
amount of water however, is not nearly as
much as the volume thrown out by the
pumps, so the steady reduction is i'm
mense in the underground body of water.
The proprietors of the mine are remedy
ing this. defect as fast as possible and hope
to have it choked off by tomorrow noon.
Three gangs of men, each work
ing eight hours day, are filling up the
hole with clay from ! dumpy
about 500 feet distant. First layer of
hay is thrown in and then layer of clay
making what is claimed by mining engin-
eers to be the most effectual filling that
can be used. The progress made gives
miners more heart, and many volunteers
with willing hands have taken hold and
are doing all in their power to fill up the
hole and make the coffer-dam air tight. In
conversation with W. S. Cherry to-day the
most emphatic encouragement was given
| in regard to the probable time
the earth would give up its
| dead. Mr.. Cherry is mining engineer of
twenty years experience and one in whose
| judgment much confidence is placed. He
SAID: Il think l can hope to get the water
out in ten days, and l may say the task
bids fair to be accomplished in that time
with no unforeseen drawbacks. We shall
add one more pump here at the air shaft
! tonight and another tomorrow at the old
Diamond shaft, and I hope to have two
tubs working at the main shaft instead of
one"
| THE 3RAIDwooD DISASTER.
! BBAIDwooD, H.. Feb. 20.-Six new names
are added to the list of those killed in the
Diamond mine disaster, making eighty in
all. It is feared that the number may vet
reach 100. The names are: Lewis Will
hanson, who leaves wife and six chill
dren; Samuel Linquashi, who leaves wife
and four children in Germany; John Dow
ing, single; Abel Lincominge, relatives un-
known; Lewis Startrick. family, and John
Jelf. These names are learned through
kilograms and through canvass.
At O'Clock this morning, the pumps at
the Diamond mine broke down, but were
repaired and started to work at a. m At
IL p. m, the water has been lowered twen-
ty-6ve feet in the main, as well as in the
air shaft. Three new pumps arrived last
night. Two are working now, and the