Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-01

and has discovered one Qeau DOQy
with skull broken and the whole body
is terribly bruised and blackened,
The gas is so bad in
the mine and the passage
ways so blockaded that progress is
very slow, Everything possible is
being done to reach the bodies as
speedily as possible, although all
hope of finding any of the buried
miners alive has long since been aban-
doned. Threats were made this even
ing against Supt. Robinson and Mine
Boss Gibson, principally against the
latter and serious trouble was feared.
Robinson is at the mine superintend
ing the work and searching for bodies.
No special fears are entertained for
his safety but strong guard has been
placed about the residence
of Gibson to prevent violence.
The threats do no. come from
men engaged in the mines, but some
who had been discharged take this
opportunity 10 make the trouble scene
at the mine most pitiful one
The wives and children of the bur
led men still hover around the en-
trance to the mine, and their lamen-
tations add to the distressing scene.
THE SECOND DAY.
DENVER, Jan. 25.-It is impossible
to get but very meagre reports from
the scene of the Crested Butte disas-
ter. Through almost superhumar eff
forts the rescuing party reached one
chamber in the mine this morning
where the men were supposed to have
been AT the time of the explosion.
Here fifteen dead bodies were found
but have not been taken out. Their
names were not learned. The deadly
gas is source of imminent danger to
the rcscuers who are forced to proceed
most cautiously. There is intense ex-
element
DENVER, Jan. 25.-For thirty-six
hours a force of from twenty to thirty
men have been constantly working
for the dead bodies of the miners who
are buried in the Crested Buttes mine
Work is necessarily very slow as the
mine is badly choked up with piles of
displaced timbers, heaps of coal, rock
and other distractions. At noon to-
day ten bodies had been found. These
were all in the main entry and being
subjected to the full force of the blast
were terribly burned and blackened.
In several cases their arms and
legs were found broken and their
bodies otherwise mutilated. In this
entry there were also found carcasses
of nine mules and large number of
empty coal cars, which had been bat
tered out of all shape. Workmen
gained an entrance to chamber No.
this morning, but found no bodies
there. Searching farther, eighteen
bodies were found almost in heap in
the air passage leading to the up-cast,
near the entrance. The men alarmed,
but not injured by the explosion,
had evidently attempted to
reach the furnace room, and were
overcome by after-danp, when
within zoe feet of it; so feet further
back six more bodies. were found. All
Some had tied handkerchiefs over
their mouths. This makes total of
"a bodies found up to this time and
includes all who were at work in
chamber number one. These bodies
are now being brought out to the
main entry and will soon be brought
to the surface The workmen will
then begin search for the
bodies in chamber number two.
The latter is further into the mine
and is undoubtedly where the explo-
sion took place. 1t is expected that
the bodies there will be found badly
burned. 1t is now known that there
were fifty-nine men and boys in the
mine.
To the list of names sent last night
may be added David Thomas, John
Thomas, and Miles Roach, which
makes the list complete, except one.
Among the killed are two boys, Tom
my Lyle and VIM. Meath, each about
II years, and Morgan Meath, II
years old. The two former were gate
keepers, and the latter a driver. The
cause of the accident cannot be
definitely told at this writing AS be-
fore stated the mine was subject to
gas, but the owners did everything
possible to overcome this by the use
of all the latest and most approved
appliances for mine ventilation, and
was considered one of the best venti-
lated mines in the country.
THE DEAD NEARLY ALL FOUND.
CRESTED BUTTE, Cal. Jan. 80.
Twenty-three more bodies were to-day
recovered from the mine, making fifty
seven in all. But two ramain. Those
recovered to-day were all found in
chamber No. 2 and in the passage
way in the immediate vicinity. Many
have arms and legs broken, skulls
crushed in, and clothing so burned
that in many cases it drops off in rags
when the body is moved. The hair is
burned from their heads and the skin
off their faces and other exposed por-
tions of the body, leaving an utterly
unrecognized mass of raw and bleed
ing flesh. The appearance of these
bodies is horribly beyond description,
and it is not likely that any of them
can be recognized. Many of the faces
have coal dust ground into them until
they are as black as coal itself To-day
the company began the erection of
large frame building where the bodies
will be placed, and where the funeral
services will be held. Crowds are COM
ing in on every train and on snow
shoes from all the surrounding camps.
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