Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-03-19

Is now seeu,Ht rue ntqplH RDflne mns
and fan Eog WasJoE' Sss. .soo
as repaired ef'oTls viii be made 10 q
into the mine.
1eeverrrtrur IL tfring1nrn1l
reach the victims. A party Of eYper
fenced miners, under charge of Ca6dt
George Doddss from he ccal;dsl!
,mlnes Of Chesterfield county, passe'
through rkynchbu9l thiS evening ant
will arrive. at. rncahontes,at 13 20 clio Oh
tGnifhi. 1.-The aSeu leMphyed c in G. tb'
mires " ere M okCly Hun sarisns rwilhou
Ifamilits. IN pom Sefi Of Bsgroes iron
thisacily and SURROUNDING section wer'
employed itheSe,p and the se&titemeh
here is consequently very great .'
What eject tie disaster will have Of
Ike 6perafiOhs Of The 'hines can odly
Ibs etDb jSesalidGrded dht ffEs tSli .txietdt o
the damage trahspir4s. The mines
have not long beeu opened, but Ink
company had Cotton well under way
and was supplying large section 0
the country with coal. A large coslinG
station for the supply Of ocean steam.
ers is 10 course Of CONSTRUCTION at Nor.
Iltoik K. II . While the accident viii have the
eHetci Of 'retarjiug work at the mines
it isinot' believed 1t will cause a per,
manent di copn6uance, as a great dea'
Of money has been expended there by
Northern capitalists composing th'
Southwest Improvement Company. %
A midnight telegram from Pocahon'
les gives fuller particulars of the dsas
Ter there. 1t ssatesthatthe night re-
lief " ent into the nines at the usua
hour last night One hundred and fit,
strong. "A little after tnidnieht The
town was starAed from its sleep by 9
report that soubde d like the romblibt
Of an earthquake, followed by clap Of
t6dnder. Soon a messenger came from
the min es. tire e-fourths Of q mile away
with Information to the superintendent
that there had been terrible explOs
ion there. go Y1'f '.a
The superintendent aad Others re
pared to the mines at once, and The
scene presented 10 their view was L.
describable. Words could not convey
the faiutest idea of the, destruction tina
was wrought in few short seconds
Signs of it were plainly visible onever1
hand. The entrance 10 the main drii
was entirely torn out. lUi sfao,9 l
The care were, taken up bodily an'
torn in part and their iron wheels brOk'
ca and shiyered. They were thrown
three and four hundred feet away. Thu
ridge and, limbers on the ridge opposite
tbs drift was blackcned picture to tb'
summit. ...,., '..
six hundred feet away a SEARCHING
party found a PAIR Of shoes that hat
been blown 10 the 81 mmit OF the ridge
and mule was found at the sam
place twisted into an iudescrlbablt
shape. The second entrance to th
mine presented a similar appearance
to the first. AZ this point lived Hun
garian family named Glassee, whose
house was shivered almost TO atoms
but the inmates of the house escapes
without serious injury.
At the entrance Of the Fan tunne
stood the company's large ventilAtor
which, with the house around it, was
swept entirely away, leaving the en-
zine standing on the foundation shat
tered aud broken, with pipes twisted.
AS indicated, the force OF the eXplo
sion was terrific. Rocks were thro VI
through the workshops, and every OBJ
iect that stood 10 the direct course Of
the forced air was demolished. Severa
workmen in the. shops were. seriousl'
Injured, and the shops themselves, a
we'll as the locomotive house. wer'
leveled with the ground.
OF the one hundred and fifty met
who were in the mine at the time OF th
explosion, not one has returned to the
surface at this hour (m:dnighO to tel
the fate of his complnloAs. aud there
is no probability that single soul Of
them survives.
Parties who venlured in the min
this morning discovered several mangl
ed bodies, one of which was identified
as mat Of NJ. L. Hampton, the nigh
foreman, who leaves a wife aud larg'
family. The carpenters aud laborer
after much suffering aud sickness sue
ceeded this evening in erecting a fan,
aud ii is hoped that the removal of The
dead bodies can begin some time 20
ulght, though the smell of the mine il
still sickening aud suffOcating. About
80 Hungarans are among the victims ;
the Others are colored men and white
miners from this State and Pennsy Iva
tia. ..~ ... ..-
1t is pretty well determined that the
explosion was caused by fre-damp.
though il is inrxplcable how the hor'
,ntal coal vein above the water leve
could contain so much explosive gas
The churches and houses at POclhou-
tas airs draped 10 mourning aud BUSH
ness is entirely suspended. --,
. PHILADELPHIA, March l7.-Presi-
dent Lisky has telegrapLed from Poe =
h0nlas TO the eff of the Southwest
Virginia Improvement Company. in
this CITY, that the loss Of life by The ex-
Ploslon IN The coWpAnl's mines there
hast week Was III mem At present
thew are preparing TO fl ,od The niue
Work was commenced il tn West