Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-12
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. GETTING THR BODIES. The Victims Of The Poca-
 hontas Horror. SAD SCENES AT THE MINE. The Work Of Recovery GO-
 ing On Slowly. PURSUIT OF THE FENIANS. TwO More Taken Yester-
 day In EngIand.
 THE SOUTH.
 
T@O More Taken Yester-
 day Tn EnRIand.
THE SOUTH
Virginia.

Taking Out the BOdies-A Sad Spectacle
 at POeahontRs-WatItp& Women Fry
 ing to Claim Their Own.
 PoCAHoNTAs, April 1.-The work of re- covering the bodies of the dead miners has been progressing all day. The entrance to the mines has been so crowded with sorrows ful men, women and children all day that the workmen were ct times inconvenieneed. Finally ropes were stretched around the mines and the grief-stricken people were compelled to keep outside the boundary. At o'clock this morning nine bodies had been brought out of the mine and laid in e row on the ground while the crowd wss ala lowed to walk by in single file. Each body was anxiously inspected and on more than one occasion two or three women would be knseling beside shattered corpse searching eagerly for some mark to identify husband, son or brother. Each body has been so mutt lated and burned that it is scarcely possible to distinguish colored men from white. The spectacle of the Iaborers reverently endeavor- ing to find tho body to which some stray arm, leg or head belonged was one of the many sad incidents of the day. Most of the bodies were stripped nearly nude by the ex- plosion and not one but was terri bly mangled Several of them were disembowelled and others were found locked in each others arms or grasping dinner pails or boots. From these facts 1t is deemed certain that they were instantly killed by the explosion and were not compelled to endure the agony of suffocation. Of the first nine taken out seven were men and two were boys. Not one could be positively identified, although each was sur-
 
 and wailing women who feared that the sicksning horror before her was all that re- mained of near relation. About noon the bodies of two colored men and 8 boy were brought out and the excitement, which had commenced to subside, was again renewed. The oolored men were identified as George and J. E. Maxwell and the boy ss Boone Maxey. Tho work of recovering the bodies is necessarily slow, owing to the terrible stench in the mine, which prevents the res- cuing party from remaining long inside the mine.
 Since Il o'clock this morning only four more bodies have been recovered, making sixteen in all Out of these, seven have been identified, viz: Isham Maxwell, colored, rec ognized by his boots; George Maxwell, col ored; William Slusher, identified by a patch on one of his boots; Young Jewell, identified by the locality in which his body was found. German woman recognized her husband by his hair. The last body recovered this evening vas @ German, name unknown. Seven dollars and 8 half in silver was found in & hole in the wall of his chamber in the mine. It is reported that he had about $125. but the rest being in paper was burned up or destroyed by the water. A negro who was lost in the mine is said to have had $20O on his person. It is thought that altogether several thousand dollars were lost with the men. The men are working tonight shifting for the purpose of collect- ing all the bodies they can in order to facilitate their removal tomorrow. The coroner's jury met to-day and passed on three bodies. Their verdict will not be rendered nniii tn-mnrrnw