The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-22
A MINERS MISTAKE
AND THE RESULTS FOLLOWING
HIS Almost Criminal CarelsSsncss-G -Go,nEto
u Forbidden Spot in u Coal Niue he
Causes the Death Ofa NumbcrofFsl
ow.workmSn-Dead and Injured.

WrLxEsBARRE, Pa, Oct. 2l.-A terrific
explosion Of gas took place in the No. .
slope of the Delaware and Hudson Coal
Company ut Plymouth, this morning.
The greatest excitement prevails there as
the slope is full OF men and boys.
One report has it that the number Of
killed will be large. AS far as can be
learned fifteen men are known to be
fatally burned.
The Coroner has been notified OF the
accident, and It is now reported that Of
the fifteen men burned, fourteen have
since died. Priests from this city and
Nanticoke have been telegrsphed for.
AS now fully explained the accident at
No. Q slope OF the Delaware & Hudson
Company, at Plymouth, was caused by a
miner who entered an abandoned portion
Of the slope, which was marked danger
Gus, with naked lamp upon his head,
thereby firing the gas and causing terrific
explosion. The loss Of life was not go
great as at first reported here by telegraph.
At this hour e +. NY one man, Dennis
Titus, Is dead and fourteen are frigktfully
burned. Most Of these, 1t is thought, cau-
not recover. Most Of the injured men are
Poles and Hungarians.
CAUSE a. TIE ACCIDENT.
The miner who went into the abandoned
opening and fred the gas that caused the
explosion at No. 2shaft was Peter Zoliniz.
key. There were two explosions. The
first was that OF gas, which was soon fol-
lowed by another sweeping everything
before it, sending a fame up the slope and
above the fan house and sending tho
shingles and timbe1s from the breakers
flying four hundred feet above tho earth.
z Z1linlzxey was not killed, aud was removed
from the slope with only his boots on and
no hair on his head. He was otherwise
uniniured.
The scene that ensued was terrible.
The victims Of, the disaster lay in every
direction. Titus was instantly killed and
when found lay two hundred feet away
from his kit OF tools. When the gas was
ignited all the men in the slope were
violently thrown to the groInd or against
cars or the ribs Of the gAngway. The
lights on their heads were ex.inguished
by the shock OF the second explosion, aud
all were in confusion, making their way
through the flames and managing with
great difficulty to reach plsce Of safety.
TIE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The following is list Of the dead thus
far:
THOMAS COLLINS. miner.
ANTHONY sPlNNRKE, JOHN LEvIsKEY and
DENN TITUa, laborers.
The wounded are: They are horribly
burned and 'breathed tlames TO such an
extent that their injuries are considered
fatal).
FRANK SpEENErTE.
THOMAS McDERMoTT.
ALEX LOVE
JOMN Colby.
JOHN kIRsT. -.
DAVID GRIMES
JUHN WOODS.
JOSEPH THOMAS.
DAVID BRYAN.
FRANK LAMoREUx.
THOMAS HowARD.
EDWARD JOHNSON.
The last three named are in critical
condition and cannot survive. The shaft
at which the explosion took place is one OF
the largest operated by the Delaware &
Hudson Company. The average daily
hoist Of coal is from $50 to 400 car loads.
Over 400 men and boys are employed in
this coal for the market. 1t is
thought that nearly all the others of the
injured will de-.