The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-22
THE BURIED MINERS.
The Relief Party Still Hard
at Work.
AMBUsHED BY THE REDSKINS.
wants a Territorial Government
Lynched-FOundered-On Record
q-Corean TrOubles-Ete-4 ,rs
The EntOmbed Miners /,

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, December 70. II
To-day was the gIoomiest Sunday ever
witnessed in -Nanticoke. Thousands OF
people poured into town in vehicles, on
horseback and afoot. Hundreds of them
gathered in groups around various
workings, where they discussed the
situation of the imprisoned men. A
message was brought here from Nanti-
coke this morning, to the effect that a
man had been found in a gangWay. and
evidently had been dead several hours
At the company's office this was de-
MED Theylstate that the situation re-
mains unchanged from yesterday.
though they hourly expect to reach the
fatal spot where the entombed men. al e
supposed to be. Rescuing parties are
continually at work. There is no hoI e
OF rescuing any of the victims alive.
At O'Clock this evening the rescuipg
party struck mass of wet sand and
fortY-five additional men. were sent IN
10 remove it with buckets as fast as it
was thrown out. At 8 O'Clock an
official report was received at the COM
pany's Office here to the effect that the
rescuing party were then within twenty
feet of the fatal chamber and were
hoping to reach the imprisoned men
by IL o'clock.
. AT o'clock a message was brought
from the pit in which the relief party
are at work. The messenger reported
to General Superintendent Stearns that
the men were still working vigorously
but had not yet reached the imprisoned
miners. From the present outlook, it is
doubtful if they will gain entrance to
the fatal slope chamber before to-mor-
row. Almost as fast as the sand is re
moved it falls in again, and the men are
now labOring under great difficulties.
AT l.30 O'Clock am. report from
Nanticoke says that the rescuerS finally
reached the place where the men were
Supposed to be, but they were not there
The rescuing party are now pushing
forward TO another chamber. with the
hopes of finding them in afew hours.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, December 21.-
There have been no new developments
since 2 o'clock this morning in regard
to the entombe miners. The latest
official message received at that hour
was that the rescuing party who are
working on the gangway from the air
shaft had reached the first chamber in
which it was hoped some of the men
would be found. The air was good and
apparently fresh, but no signs of any
living person AGas to be found. There
are six other chambers along the gang
Wavs and 1t is thought the nlen may be
found in one of them. A new gang of
sixty men went into the mine at 6
O'Clock this morning and are pushing
forward with the utmost exertIon, but
it is hard to say when the next chamber
can be reached. 1t is now fully believed
that the missing men were caught in
the sand and culm at the time the
caYe-in took place, and that they are
now dead.
The last messenger connected with
the exploring party, came out of the
stope at II.20 o'clock. He reports that
none of the men have as yet been dis
covered and all hope ofeyer seeing their
comrades alive have again been aban-
doned. They are making vigorous
search but it appears almost certain
that the unfortunate men have persisted
and that when their bodies are found
they will be under mass OF sand and
culm. t
At 1.30 this afternoon the relief
party was still pushing towards the i'm
prisOned men and had been spurred on
by q signal they had received which
indicates there is life beyond. Tapping
upon the air pipe was heard by the
reseuers and they naturally conclude
that there IS yet good ground for hope
that at least some of the men may be
rescued alive. 1t is the opinion of some
of the best miners that hey cannot
reach the men for some days, oW ing to
the extent of the Instructions, others
are sanguine enough TO expect they
will reach the men within the next ten
hours. 5000 ino3 ed