Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1884-10-31
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Fourteen Men Killed and Seven In.
jured by an Explosion of
Fire Damp. ...
The Burned and Disfigured Remains
Delivered to the Bereaved
Relatives.
Heartrending Scenes at the Mouth OF
the Pit as the Bodies Are
Brought Out.
The Stutsman County Republicans Sit
Down on .Handsome Burke" OF
the Jamestown Capital.
Hon. Hugh Mccullough Appointed Sec
retary of the Treasury and
F- .e
Gresham a Judge.
Miscellaneous Items Of News.
A Mime Horror .

UNnosrowN, Pa, Oct. Tho worst fears
touohine the fate of the men who were imprls-
oned in the mine at Youngstown by an explosion
of fire damp, which took place there at 4 o'clock
lsst evening, have been fully confirmed. Slx
miners we're taken out last evening soon after
the disaster, two dead and two of the other four
90 seriously injured that there is no hopes OF
recoverv. This left from fourteen to eighteen
men supposed to be still imprisoned in the
mine, the exact number not certainly known.
The work of reaching these men was continued
industriously throughout the whole nlght' ana
I bv this morning the dead bodies OF twelve OF
them had been brought out aud delivered to
their friends and relatives at the mouth OF the
nit. This makes fourteen dead in all aRd with
the four Injured accounts for eighteen OF the
whole number suppposed to- be in the mine
Whether there are more remains 10 De o's-
covered. The scenes at the mouth OF the pit ss
the disfieured bodies of the dead were brought
to the surface and given into the hands OF wives
and relatives was distressing in the extreme
and vividsy recalled to mind
THE PITT oUs Walls
of ths bereaved families who waited at the
opening of the mine last February. 1t was
sad spectacle indeed, and moved to tears many
of the hundreds who had been drawn to the
place by the uews of the disaster. 1t cannot be
stated whe: her the explosion is due to the care
lessness of the company or not. miners aiege
that it was, but on the heels of fatal calamity
the usual impulse is to so attribute It, The
mine was inspected every morning and When
ever the presence of fire damp was detected II
was an invariable order to deny the men ad-
mission until the gas had been expelled. This
was the rule and the officers said 1t was rigldly
enforced; but it is claimed by the miners that
the company discharged competent hre ooss
two months ago and since employed In that
capacity one not competent to determine
whether the mine was safe or not.
Two of the men were found
WITH LOCKED ARMS
their faces buried in water, dead. The men
were found in every conceivable position. The
greater pa,t of them were sudocated by sfter
damp. Some were burned to crisp and many
were badly bruised by being Knocked against
the sides of piles. Those who were not killed
1neGantly 8uOWeO eSA0onooVA HAees s~AA~-o~' ~ -
escape.
The coroner impanelled . jury and on Thursday
morning will begin thorough and serohing
Investigation. Notwithstanding the talk of
some Of the miners it is the general impression
that the exrlosion was unavoidable and that the
company at all times was a. careful as it was
possible to be Daniel Romager, the fire boss
has been in tie service of the company for
several years, but pit boss for only few
months. He is accounted competent man;
indeed any careful ard intelligent man with
SAFETY LAMP
can perform the functions of fire boss, as the
lamp iteelf discloses, by the swelling Of its
flame, the presence of gas ong the roof; if the
gas is heavy the lamp will 60 out Fourteen
bodies have been recovered and seven men In
iuret, making twcnty-one in all, which Is be-
lieved to be all that were in the mine at the
time Of the explosion. The most Of the miners
were natives and nearly al those killed were
married mon and had families. There is great
excitement here and great many people from
this place and Oonnellsvlle are at the little vii
l.ee which has grown up around the mine, and
altogether the scene is one Of animation, deeply
pervaded by general feeling Of profound sad
ness, Fourteen cofins arrived from Pittsburg
this afternoon, and the dead have been laid out
and tomorrow the bodies will be inferred.
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