The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-02-22

rick took up the papers connected
with the route from Kearney to Kent, and
presented them in order to witness. He
testified regarding the handwriting, show
ing that defendants signed the names Of
one another. Adjourned.
Death In the Depths.
CHICAGO ILL.,, Feb. ia special to the
Daily News from Joliet says that Braid
wood, a mining town twenty miles
south of that point, caved in and lmpris-
oned seventy-fve men. A subsequent dis
patch to the same paper says fprty-fve of
these miners are dead. A brief interview
just had with A. L. Sweet, president of the
four mines, comprising the Diamond Mine
company, confirms the report of the terri
BILE disaster at Braidwood. Mr.. Sweet says
300 men were in the various shafts this al
ternoon when the ground sagged under tn e
" eight of the water that had sturated and
loosened it. Sixty two were in one mine,
which caught the bulk OF the falling debris,
and which was instantly flooded. Every
one there was e.therdr yned or smothered
inside Of five minutes, and their bodies
buried beneath many tons of earth. One
uCIto DafC uCCIi cAOaN ubSu' nv
miners not in the unfortunate shaft es-
capped. Digging and pumping is going Wig
orously on, but it will be many hours ere
the first bodies will be reached. The mine
was of the ordinary kind, supplied with
regular shafts, and supposed to be well
protected from accident. The Tribune's
special describing the scenes OF misery
says siXty-eight men and boys lie dead in
the mines. 1t may be even weeks be-
So, ba oil nhnl cati Jeff of
ing their bodies is accorded. No such
Calamity has betalien this section OF the
country, or any other mining region. The
whole of Diamond is devoted to mining,
and this blow carries death into a hundred
families. In several instances, all male
members of families were swept away. a
section of prairie land, forty by ninety feet,
over which the flood had extended until
water stood three or four feet deep, sud
denly caved in, resulting in the instant
flooding of the mine, in which 800 men
and boys were working. Inside OF hall
an hour the water reached all parts OF
the works, and to night stands five feet III
the main shaft. Seventy.hYe human beings
were choked to death in the g" esses OF
the mine. All possible mop ne rescue
ofRny of them was abandoned NJ dusE,
when the water poured in the shaft ana the
WorRmen were compelled to desist. The
Dll, tue SUNNI vi StsN1ANsA9 . AA'AANt' @A'-'
been operated about two years, and from
2O0 TO 400 men and boys have been regu-
larly employed in il. This morning 200 or
800 men we're sent in. Those who escaped
did SO by miracle. Shalt No, . is ninety
two feet deep, and above the coal is
seventy-fiye to one hundred feet of earth.
The news Of the accident soon spread, and
a great crowd gathered about the mouth OF
he nit, where workmen were 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 iervently for the
safety of her loved ones, and the scene was OF
a heartrendin6 character. The grief OF the
was outspoken and painful to be-
hold. n wife bent over the shaft, and her
husband climbed up the ladder, with the
dead BODY of his sou in his arms. She eX-
Tended her bands to receive them, but was
and doomed to greater grief,
for the man, worn out by the desperate
struggle tor life, and for the body OF his son,
el back into the pit lifeless corpse. He
has not been seen since. Mrs. MCeucs'ori
whose husband and three sons were buried,
upon learning the news, was Frustrated,
and now hes in q speeches. condition, with
mind permanently injured.
RELIEF BY THE sTATEoF ILLINOIS.
BRAIDwOoD, IT,, Feb. 20.-The work OF
-EEGuluk INC DDllt5 vi NbN bAAtNh hAAAANa9 atsHN
bee resumed in q more businesslike man
aer. Three companies of workmen have
been formed, consisting Of sixty men. Each
company has a foreman, and work eight
B ours a day and night. Tramways have
been built 10 haul the dirt TO the dam, aud
pumping has been commenced with two
pumps, and larke box lowered and raised
On coger. AT 6 p. m. the water had been
lowered five feet in the main shaft. This
l. frhV.a
large pumps will arrive tonight and be
placed in position at once. Alta meeting Of
citizens and miners OF this community,
Mayor ID. Mclaughlin presiding. u was an
that Adiutant-Gen Elliott was
present. BY direction Of Governor Hami-
ton, to inform him officially OF the necessi-
hes Of the sufferers. General Elliott being
called upon, said by direction o. the
OF the state I visited, at an early
hour this morning, the scene Of the Dia-
mOnd mine disaster. / Veut into nearly
al, the desOlued homes, aud such pitisb.e
sight hope never 10 see again. House
after mouse was luil % orphan
children, and no one could tel which was
the baby. Ny report 10 the governor giil be
that these widows ami orphans not only
claim Substantial ana immediate assistance
nom this city AID county, bgt o. the state
ana C1ultry. Comm IuICaii0ns were reat
from tire archbishop uf the Chicago liucese.
slyins bee would take care Of IT, orUIsl
Catholics. a telegram wss cct.tPt lfum
Governor. n m ton, saying b.l had been
.uir1I lcel tlis Afternoon lu tIH i--i.lft re-
aprr0Dra-irg 500 90 for the leue. %
be- widows and orphans. An official rc llrt
was received, giving tie uumla- 0t rtd lEs
DO tfirtv-iIu -.aud OF tIe orphans 90 I..-.fr.
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