Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-18
Second DISPATCH.


CHICAGO, February ia Braidwood
special sage: The little village OF Diamond,
where most of the miners lived, 10 q scene of
6esolation calculated to wiring the heart of
the most hardened. Sixty-eight men and
six boys lie dead in the mine, aud it may be
weeks before even the melancholy sa,isfsc.
| tion OF recovering their bodies is accorded
No such calamity has ever befallen this sec.
ton Of country or any other mining region.
The whole OF DlsmonS was devoted to mining,
and this blow carries death into hundred
families. Ia several instances all the male
| members OF families
HAVE BEEN SWEPT AWAY.
| A section of prairie land, forty by ninety
feet, over which the floods had extended un-
til the water stood three four feet deep,
suddenly caved in, resulting in the instant
| flooding of the mine in which 800 meu and
] boys were working. Inside of half an hour
the water reached all parts of the works,
| and stands within five feet OF the main shaft.
| Seveuty-four human beings are checked 10
death in the grim recesses Of the mine. All
hope of the possible rescue of any of them
BY the opening of q devexiry from an old ore
sh aft was abandoned at dusk, when the water
poured iBto the last named and the workmen
were
COMPELLED TO DEsIsT.
The mine is in the extreme corner Of Will
mingion county. The miners live in a
village across the line in Grundy county.
The Diamond pits are known as Nos. !,
2, etc. One Of the leading stockholders is
Hugh Jewett, OF the Erie railroad. Pit
2, the scene of yesterdays horror, has been
operated about two years, and 200 to 400
men and boys have been regularly EN-.
ployed in ii. This morning 290 or 800
men went in. Those who escaped did go
by miracle Shaft is ninety-two feet
deep, and above the coal is seventy to
eighty feet Of earth. The coal vein ranges
in thickness from two feet nine inches 10
four feet. Forty-one feet above it ia layer
of sospstone, resting on bed of fine clay.
The vein winds and dips a good deal, and
thus some parts OF the mines are lower tn an
others. From the main shaft
RADIATE PASSAGES IN EVERY DIRECTION,
in which coal is found. These must be four
feet high and six wide. The miners prop
their passages with timber and soapstone
These props did not prove to be strong
enough for the superintendent mass of
soggy earth. The news of the accident soon
spread, and great crowd gathered about
the mouth of the pit. Workmen were soon
fishing out the almost exhausted and nearly
drowned men who were alive at the bottom
| OF the shaft. Many wife and mother knelt
on the ground and prayed fervently for the
safety OF her beloved ones, and as the
HEAKTRENDING CHARACTER OF THE cALAM-
appeared, the grief of the survivors was
ou,spoken and painful to behold. A wife
bent over the shaft as her husband climbed
up the ladder with the dead body of his son
in his arms. She extended her hand to re-
ceive them, but was disappointed and doomed
10 greater grief, for the man, worn out by the
desperate struggle for life and for the bod
of his son, fell back into the pit a life.
less corpse. He has not been seen SINCE
A mother whose husband and three sons
were buried, upon lesrning the news was
Frustrated and now lies in perilous condi-
ton with mind permanently injured. Ia
stances OF a pathetic nature multiply, and
the seeker for them will fed rich harvest
here.
KNOWN TO BE LOST.
The following miners are known 10 be lost:
JOHN HUBER, leaves wife and four children
ADAM McQUESTION leaves wife and FIVE
ROBERT McoUEsTIoN.
ISAAC PERSON, leaves wife and one child.
JAMES CARROLL.
B. SCHALZELL, leaves a wife and three chill
JOHN BoYD,leaves wife and baby.
JOHN NEIb' leaves wife and six k children;
P. c. REDMAN, leaves a wife and three children.
P. P. WALL.
L: ATKINS, leaves wife and six children.
JOHN ATKINS.
GEORGE BUTKINsKY.
JOHN BUTKINSKY
TONY SULLIVAN.
JOHN HICKMAN, leaves wife aud four chill
A FULTON.
WM sCHOIOC leaves a wife and two children
JAMES PIERsON.
JOHN PIERSON.
JOE MATTHEWS.
A GOLDENBERG.
FRANK WATTS, leaves wife and three chill
WIN. KLEssEN.
JOE SMITH.
G. C. LOLITA.
JOHN GULLOCK.
FRANK KLASSIS.
ADAM DAWN, leaves wife and four children.
JOE GRoTEs.
JOHN pEuBRosKY
ANTON DEUBResKY.
b. RAMSEY.
MATT BELL.
John HUBER.
FRANK HUBER.
WILL McoUEsTIoN.
ADAM McQUEsTIoN, JR.
MATTHEW Redmond.
D. N. BRIDGE.
ADAM STEWART. JR.
HUGH NESBIT.
SIMON STUMP.
JOHN SMITH.
GEORGE MATTHEw.
q. G LESNER.
JOHN FRENCH.