New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-20
IMPRISONED BY A FLOOD.
THE BURIED MEN AT NANTICOKE.
MULES FOUND ALIvE-DYING FROM EXCITEMENT
SOME HAIRRREADTH EsCAPis
IPY APH To THE TRIpUNE.I


late tonight from Nanticoko gave some hope OF
saving the alive who imprisoned in the mines
OF the Susquehanna Goa! Company. Tho workmen eX
cavang along the gangway leading from the foot OF the
air shaft to the entrance to chamber Ia which
perfectly safe and healthy three mules This dis
covery taken presage that the men, too. would
yet be recovered, and seemed 20 inspire tho rescuers
with renewed energy As yet there is not trace or III
dicaton OF the who imprisoned, ana their fate Is
still dubious before. The wOrkmen coming from
the direction of the slope have encountered mass OF
firmly wedgcd in with debris OF broken timbers and
their advance is seriously delayed. They dare not bost
for fear Of bringing down another fall
The suspense has proved too much for several OF the
friends or those who Imprisoned Maggie Sarbcr.
the sister OF the Sarber brothers who are In the inc
was Frustrated early this morning and about p m
after passing from 1T to another. died in the arms of
her mother, old OF sxtyhve years, who bears
the err bio misfortune with rmness trly surprising.
Mrs DonOhUe, the mother OF Willie the dOOrender, who
Is in the mine was tax with commissions this after
noon anl Is not expected TO live. The father and
mother OF the three KIvler brothers who are in the
mine almost crazy with suspense and agony and are
1T rally being kept alive by fabricated stories TO their
sons being alive and we'll and with speedy promises OF
! their recovery.
The disaster is the most terrible since the
accident at the Barnum shaft West Ptston in 1871
when ninety perished. 1t greatly resembles the
catastrophe at sugar Notch in 1850, when five men
buried alive for six days and nights
and existed only by deyourng the raw flesh
OF mule. IL - moro appalling than that
accident however ur in this case. It Is now known that
least twenty five buried. Itis known, too
tHt they have no iooj aud itlc air. and worst o all
Is not known exactly where they are 80 that ehoFs AZ
rescue however well conducted, at least random at
tempts which may may not prove successful. Above
all II widely believed that by this time all must he
sunocatcd by want Of air. Now that the
terrible excitement and confusion which followed the
d a,tcr nave IN some mcasuso subsidized 1t Is possible
IN learn with some degree OF exactuc.s the detail, OF the
calamity The scene of the d-a.tcr u i'm the workings OF
.onc l. the uppcr part Of Ros, vein and In portion Of
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,1 cynrytbiry that stood in tho way wcrc
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aud n,,, tiuib,r. .uf porting the roof woro torn ont
and n,,rlcI ,nout ike straws The men ia the tunnel.
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s,, ,,t. ,,,,r~ and thu.it +, tupo.s,ble 10 SAY
, ,,,. ,r, ,ot.si,c AtGn M however, II had been
,I ,,,o, thor. were sixteen Welsh Irlsn or Amer-
- and fer, polaplcr. or Iluugarians and there
80. h other. vhoso absence ha, not yet been noticed
r.t ., the ine roof and the rush OF the water
,, Co., T., ,l,,t soctton ~ tho mine OF the dis.
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49, 60 ,,. AIR shaft some of them escaped only by
miracle md the tales Of their terrible experiences
amid tbo rush OF the black water the confined spaces
of rho g,p,wny. aro thrilling Among the survivors
va. Larry Perkins a liner, who lives midway
Lt c,n Wilkrsbarre and Nanticokc. lie In tho old
working M the time tho water rushed In. Realizing the
, ,o -, had t,,y ard thc mouth OF the slope but
IN, water which was already three feet deep when he
started rapidly Increased In volume. and before he had
hundred feet along the eang"ny II was up 10 MS
neck. Finally he had to swlm Dut tho ''A WIS ho' Il"
easy one
In relating his cNperlanco 10 Sho"'' ni"'" e''o'''
He SAID when lie was ehh'us''' ''o"i mo
swim. he would try to touch Sro"hd anu upon pcius
successful this, he always was no ielt aS II Iio
had been prolonged and he was correSpondihSy happy
But the that the water WAS 700 deep even before no
trod It's dapth was awful. swimming, walking ana
resting he finally reached the surface IN safety