The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-18
3ALr LAKE DAILY HERALD. SUNDAY FEBRUARY
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Chicago, 1.-THE TribLne's Broad
wood gives the following list of |
miners known to be lost: John |
Huler, leaves wife and four chill |
dren; Adam McQuestin, leaves a
wife and FIVE children; Robert Nc
Questin, Isaac Pearson, leaves a |
wife and one child: James Carroll,
B. Chalzell, leaves wife and three
children; John Boyd, leaves a wife;
II. Cady, John Neil, leaves wife
and six children; A. Orr, leaves
wife and three children; z. G. Red
man, leaves a wife and two chill
dren; R. Harper, leaves a wife and
three children; Z. II. Wall, Fritz
Roe, Samuel Atkins. leaves q wife
and six children; John Atkins, A.
Holka, leaves wife and two children
George Bulskousky, John BulskOn
sky, Larry Sullivan, John Brokma,
leaves a wife and four children; A.
Tuition, K. Grade, William Schools,
leaves wife and two children;
James Pearson, John Pearson,
Harry Anger, leaves a wife and
child j ohm Mathew, A. Gotenberger,
Frank Mott, leaves a wife and
three children; William Kleiser
Joseph Smith, G. ClOtlin,
John Outlook, Frank KlasS, Adam
D. ANN, leaves a wife and four
children; E. D. ANN, Joe Crates,
NJ. Neyski, John Denbrosky, Anton
Denbrosky, F. Merr, II. Kemsey, F.
Saup Latt, Belz P. Seek, John HUI
| Der, Frank Huber. Willie McQues-
| ton. Adam McQuestion, jr. John
Pierson, Matthew Redman, D. Nj.
| Bridge, T. Costigan, Adam Stewart,
| ir., Frank Stewart, Hugh Nesbitt,
| A. B. Egington, Simon Strumps,
John Smith, R. Rabbert, George
Matthew, W. G. Secora, II. Clossner,
III, Lense, John French, JOhr john
son. o. @. Sterlow, john Anderson,
VIM. McCully, Thomas Rogers and
Joe Rusek.
| This was the most terrible tragedy
that ever visited a Wilmington
coal field. 1t was in the number 2
shaft of the Wilmington Coal Mine
and Manufacturing Co. known as
the Diamand Co. 1t was situated
81 miles northwest of this city
The little village of Diamond is q
scene of desolation, calculated tt
wiring the heart of the most hard
, ened to scenes of misery's men anC
} 6 bows lie dead in the mine and i
NAV be weeks before even thu
melancholy satisfaction of recover
ing their dead bodies is recorded
f No such calamity has ever befallel
this section of country or any othe
mining region. The whole o
Diamond is devoted to mining ant
this blow carries death into on
@ hundred families. In several IL
stances all the male members of til
family have been swept away.
section of prairie land = by 9
feet, over which the flood
had extended until the water stool
three or four feet deep, Suddenl.
caved in, the result being the instaI
taneous flooding of mine in whic
800 men and boys were at worl
Inside of half an hour the water ha
reached all parts of the works an
tonight was within five feet of tn
main shaft. Seventy four huma
beings were chOked 80 death. A
hope of the possible rescue of an
of them by the opening Of drive
way from the old air shaft into tn
works was abandoned at dusk; Whe
the water poured into the last name
shaft; and the Workmen were CON
PEELED to desist. The mine is in tn
extreme corner of VIII Count,
The miners live in the village jus
across the line in Grundy County
The Diamond COmpany's pits al
known as No. 1, No. 2, etc. One {
1.-THE leading stockholders is Hug
Jewett, of the Erie Railway. p
No. 2, the scene of to-day's horro
has been operated about three veal
and from 200 to 400 men and boy
ID were regularly employed in
This morning 200 or 500 went il
in Shaft No. 2 is ninety-two feet dee
in and above the coal lies seventy
ee 10 feet of earth. The coal vel
as varies in thickness from two fet
A. and nine inches to nine feet. Alloy
~ it is a layer of soapstOne, resting 0
~ a bed of fire clay. The vein WinC
,r and dips a good deal, and thus som
10 parts of the mine are lower than oil
st ers. From the main shaft there al
radiatingIpassages in every directio
es in which coal is to be found. Thes
Dr. must be four feet high and 81
e. wide. The miners propped til
. passage with timber and soapstOn
e but the props did not prove to /
% strong enough for the superincun
bent mass of soggy earth.
News of the accident soon sprea
er and great crowd gathered aboG
n the mouth of the pit where ii
e. workmen were fishing out the g
most exhausted, and nearly browne
er men, who were alive at the botto
re of the shaft. Many wife or daug
'ef ter knelt on the ground and pray,
IL. ferYently for the safety Of her Low,
tie one, and as the heart rending cha
acter of the calamity appeared t.
ed grief of the survivors was OIL
spoken and painful to behold.
*. wife bent over the shaft
her husband climbed up the ladd
an with the dead body Of his son in
om arms. She extended her hand
&C receive him, and was disappoint