Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-22
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. FATAL MINE EXPLOSION lh Pennsylvania Serious
 Loss of Life. FOR IRELkHD'S HOME RULE: Speeches Are Made And
 Money Subscribed. FORAKER'S CAMPAIGN SPEECH, He Defends the Bloody shirt--Deninark;s Preiat= fer Assassinated--OhiO Returns.
TERRIBLE MINE DISASTER

Two Explosions Occur in an Old
 Unused MIne-Many of the LabOrers
 Killed and wounded Scenes at the
 Mouth of the Pit.
 W1LkRsBARRE, Pa., Oct. 2t-A few min utes before o'clock this morning two sue cessive explosions of gas in No. 2 mine of the Delaware & Hudson company at Plymouth Junction, startled the people living in the vicinity as well as those who were at work around the mine f'laIfses instantly shot up in the air twenty feet above the fan house. There was a loud report.
 The mine in which tho accident occurred is about a mile north of the Plymouth bor- ough and three miles from this city. It has been idle since Januaty, but the, company had resolved to reopen it and carpenters and laborers were in the main gangway making the necessary repairs preparatory to the the resumption of mining operations next week. There were three gangs at work, one in each of the three seams. About o'clock Polander named Zalensky, went into an unused chamber 300 yards from the foot of the shaft. and carried in his hat a naked lsnip. h. stantly there was a loud explosion and many of the men in the mine were knocked down but none seriously injured. They soon recovered from the shock and resumed their work. Five minutes later secold explosion occurred which was much more serious in it's consequences. It not only caught those in the middle gang but those in the viens above and below. The superintendent, Robert Meyers, was in the lower gangway and was knocked down by the shock, those in the middle gangway, however, were the only ones seriously affected. Sixteen men were prostrated one of them being killed outright and eight others certainly fatally injured, while it is probable that only two or three out of all the wound ed will recover. When the news of the accident spread throughout the village the excitement became intense and hundreds of persons who had relatives and friends working in the mine focked to the breakers. The women and children of the men in the pit sent up a vail that was most pitifu1.
 As soon as possible rescuing party was organized and the injured men were brought out of the mine all terribly burned, but with one exception ali living. As they were brought to the surface there was an oppres sive ominous silence until the condition of the injured men became known, and then the weeping and wailing were renewed. The first man brought out by the party was Thomas Howard. He was cut in tho back and terribly burned about the head and face All the others were found near the foot of the shaft in the main gangway. None of them were able to stand up. Dennis Titus was found dead 200 feet away. His body was the last brought out. Joseph Thomas died three hours after being brought out. At 8 o'clock tonight Thomas Collins died. He was a most esteemed man and was prominent in local politics, It is certain that seven or eight of the other wounded men will die