The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-14
A MOUNTAIN LIFTED.
One of the Most Horrible Coal
Mine Explosions Ever
Known.
One Hundred and Fifty Miners Mangled
or EntOmbed Alive at PCCa-
hOntas, Va,
The Ventilators Destroyed and no Hope
Entertained That Any VIII be
Recovered Alive.

--LYNCuBURG, Va, March ia Special
from Pocahontas this morning says "An-
explosion occurred in the coal mines here
las! night at 1880, From l20 to 80
miners were Killed.
AT ONE p. NJ.
LYNCHBURG, Va, March l3.-No fur
ther particulars have yet been received
of the explosion in the coal mines at
PocahontaS, Va. Great confusion pre-
walls there. Accurate information can
not be had before evening. A special
trainwith surgeons on board left this city
for the scene of the explosion at l0:lj
this morning.
THE STORY CONFIRMED,
PETERSBURG, VA, March lS.-lntelli-
gence Just received confirms the story of
the terrible explosion in the coal mines %
the Southwest Virginia Improvement
Company at Pocahontas, Tazewell Coun-
ty, this State, The explosion occurred at
a. m. Particulars are very meagre, and
nothing can be learned as to how il &C.
Cured Over one hundredmen are known
to be killed, These mines are owned by
joint stock company composed mostly
of Northern capitalists.
THE MOUNTAIN LIFTED.
LYNCHBURG, VA, March l3.-Alle efforts
to get particulars of the Pocahontas Mine
disaster prove fruitleSs. Meagre reports
to railroad officials here indicate that the
explosion lifted part of the mountain,
which settled back Immediately, filing
the tunnels and destroying everything in
them The night force at work in the
mines numbered nearly 200 A report
says the town of Pocahontas is demon
allied, and the scene beggars descrlp.
ton
Az APPALLING SPECTACLE.
LYNCHBURG, Va, March 49, Further
intelligence from Pocahontas represents
the work of destruction at the coal mines
as horrible to contemplate. There were
one hundred and fifty men in the
mine at the time of the explosion, not
one of whom is believed to have escaped.
Those not killed outright by the terrible
force of the explosion most likely per-
ished from after-damp. The cause of the
explosion is not yet definitely ascertain
ed as the entrances to the mine are all
full of bad air, but the presumption is
that one miner struck assure gas. Several
parties yentured into the mines
this morning but could not
long endure the foul atmosphere. 4
number of bodies were discovered
horribly mangled, some of them with
their heads torn from the trunks, and
Others were with the limbs all gone, pre-
senting an appalling spectacle The
work OF destruction was not confined
entirely to the interior of the mines
but the houses two or three hundred
feet removed from the mines were
overturned, and in several instances.
ENTIRELY DEMOLISHED.
The large ventilator of the Southwest
Improvement Company was blown to
atoms and the mines cannot be entered
until another is constructed for the pur-
pose Of freeing the atmosphere of the
suffocating fumes. This work is now
progressing speedily. A large force is
engaged on the outside of the mines con-
structing collins and perfecting other ar
rangementS for the interment of the dead
miners, most Of whom were foreigners.
SIX BODIES RECOVERED.
The latest Intelligence is that an eX-
ploring party entered the mine a short
distance and brought out six bodies in
frighfully mutilated condition. There
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