The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-23
Dreadful Pictures of Despair
and sorrow From the strick-
en- Towa of NaDticoke.
Gold suddenly Begins Flowing
Out From America 10 For
eign Markets--The Cause.
Wyan and sullivan Arranging
for n Fight with Naked
Hands, for Big Money.
THE MINE HORROR.
Dread Picture ofDe.p.,r.

1 - VI btrIfbhrs
WnREsBARRE, Pa, December ga
There was no rest for Nanticoke, last
night. 1t is impossible to describe
the CONSERVATION, the dismay, the
agony, which spread throughout the
village when il was learned. after
midnight, that further efforts to get
the entombed men out alive had been
abandoned. No one thought of rest.
The whole population was on the
streets, discussing in the widest man
ner, the decision TO abandon all fur
Their efforts at rescue. Exclama-
lions of despair, cries of agony, and
muiteriDgs of discomfort were heard
ON every corner and in almost every
household. Rclstives of the unfor-
tunate victims were In the widest
agony and despair. Several were
seized with commissions and many
more were completely Frustrated.
The officials were forced 10 abandon
wo;k from the air shaft, by reason of
several irresistible CONCLUSIONS. In
vcstigations early this morning show
that sand, rock and culm had fallen
TO such All extent that the mine was
filled 10 the root, and that the men
are certainly dead and beyond all
human help. The list of the victims
numbers twcnty-four, and among
them are several boys, but the major
ity were men, the larger number of
whom are married aud have families.
The officials OF the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre coal company are now
going TO sink shaft directly over the
slope where the imprisoned miners
are supposed TO be. Ii Is thought
that by doing this, they can reach the
victims III about four days.
The fate of the men In the slope is
sealed, and the only thing that re-
mains is 20 recover the bodies of the
victims and restore them to their
families and friends. Little has been
done to-day except to clear away the
debris, preparatory to beginning
anew. Operations on the slope will
be kept up and all debris removed,
Ms last as possible. Most practical
miners are OF the opinion that when
| the dead men are found, IL will be in
the air chambers. If they have been
caught in the sand and culin, then the
victims will be found one by one at
the excavation continues. and 1t may
be two months before the last body
il recovered.
| The loss TO the company is esti.
mated AT $4,000, and will be greater
in the cost of sinking shaft, loss Of
time and clearing away of the pile OF
debris. sand aud rock, which II
wcdged, iu solid mass, in the gar g
| ways.
Michael Sarver, father of the two
Sarver brothers, was among the lasI
who came out of the shaft this morn
ing, and he wept like child. lie II
very old and lifelong toiler in III,
mines. lie expressed himself rs en-
iirely satisfied with the work beinl
done to extricate the men, and sale
he did not place the blame for Tn
disaster upon anyone, holding that |
was entirely accidental.
81 have two as fine sons as ever ha'
father, lying down there Mr.. Sar
yer said, sand as good a daughter n
man could wish, lying dead at hom'
But Il Is the will of God, and | say
his will be done. II is terrible a
far, and others are suffering as niue
as am. will go down again us 500
Ms they will let me, and will w0r
day and night to rescue them, dead
alivc.'
The project of sinking shaft owe
the workings of the fatal slope bi
. been abandoned. Ii is said 1t woul
be necessary to go down 250 feet
reach the nearest gangway, and tn
would take three months or NOR
rhe company will continue to wor
ON and clear the obstructed tunnel.