The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-24
DEATH IN THE MINE.
Terrible Explosion in a Penn.
sylvania Coal Mine.
FATAL FIRE DAMP.
Lynching in Arkansas---A Prisoner
Burned to Death --- Judge
Lynch in Mississippi.

WLKEsBARRE, Pa, October ia terri
BILE explosion OF gas took place at No. 2
stope OF the Delaware Coal Company's
mine, at Plymouth, this morning. The
greatest excitement prevails there, as the
stopeis 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.
1t ie now reported that OF the fifteen men
burned fourteen have since died.
THE CAUSE OF THE EXPLOSION.
AS now fully explained, the accident was
causee by miner who entered an aban-
donee portion of stope which was marked
"daaferous." with a naked lamp on his
head. thereby firing the gas and causing q
terrific explosion. The loss OF life is not so
great as at first reported. At this hour, 2
p. M, one man, Dennis Titus, is dead and
fourteen are frightiully burned. Most Of
these, it is thought. cannot recover. Most
of the injured men are Poles and Hungar-
ians.
The miner who went into the abandoned
opening and fired the gas that caused the
explosion at No shaft was Peter Zelin-
itssky. There were two explosions. The
first was that OF gas, which was soon fol-
lowed by another
sending fame of fire up the slope and
above the fan house and sending the shin
gles of timbers from the breaker flying 400
killed and was removed from the slope with
only his boots on and no hair on his head.
He was otherwise uninjured. The scene
that ensued was terrible. The victims of
the disaster lay in every direction. Titus
was instantly killed and when found lay
200 feet away from his kit OF tools, which
he was examining at the time Of the explo-
sion. When the gas was ignited all the
men in the slope were violently thrown to
the ground or against the cars or the ribs
81 the gangway. The lights on their heads
were extinguished by the shock ofthe second
explosion and all were in confusion, making
their way through the flames and manag-
ing with great difficulty to reach place Of
safety. The casualty was as follows: Four
miners killed outright and twelve others
were so horribly burned and breathed
flames to such an extent that their injuries
are considered fatal.
z ROASTING PRISONER.
i LITTLE Rock, October PA Gazette's
Washington (Arkansas) special says that
late reliabl news just received from Pike
county state that Churchill, the murderer
of Dennis Brooks, was killed by a mob and
not by Brooks brother. Sincea mob has
burned the Polk boys in the Murfreesboro
Jail, few days ago. The prisoners had been
kept in an old wooden building. Churchill
was captured and confined there. Last
night the mob collected, saturated the
lower part OF the building with coal oil and
window and piteously begged the mob to
shoot him, but the flames soon reduced the
building and the victim to ashes.
BULLETs FOR BURMAH.
LONDON, October 21.-The authorities of
Woolwich arsenal have been ordered to
supply 100000 rounds OF cartridges
and 10000 rifles for an expedition to be
sent against King Thebaw, OF Burmah.
WIFE MURDERER HANGED.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, October 21.-A mob OF
400 masked and armed men surrounded
the jail at Holly Springs before daylight,
this morning, overpowered theguard, broke
open the cell OF Robert Doxey, the wife muir
derer, and hanged him to a tree about one
mile northwest OF town.
TERRIBLE CRIME.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, October 21.-A terri
BILE tragedy was committed about 2 O'Clock
this afternoon at the house OF John Con-
way. dalrynlan on Eighteenth street, IN
thickiy populated part OF the city. A
neighbor entered the house and found Mrs.
{ onway and her daughter, Kate, lying dead
upon the bed in an inner room. Their
skulls were crushed and the bed deluged
with their blood, which was yet warm. The
girl was kneeling beside the bed, her head
upon the mothers body. Marks of blood
we're found on the kitchen floor and the
weapon OF death, car coupling pin, was
discovered in the alley, where it had been
thrown. About $50 in money was missing
from the house. The most plausible theory
is that the murder was committed by
tramp.