Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-12-22
BY WIRE TODAY.
The Nanticoke sepuIohre-An Hope
of Rescuing The Entombed
WretChes Abandoned. A
New Calamity.
Report of Land Entries in
the Aberdeen Land
District.
The Buried Miners at Nanticoke


W~ilkesbarre, Dec. 21-About nine
to night the work of the rescu-
ing party was suddenly interrupted by
another fall of sand rock and culm. The
They fed for their lives and several of
them had very narrow escapes. The
work of digging is for a time being
suspended. The fall did not come from
the surface, but from an upper chamber.
The officials in charge, after an explo-
ration, thought it could be overcome with
u few hours work, and at 1920 p. m. a
new gang of ninety men were preparing
to go down. Three men, James Turner,
John Absolom and Joseph Warned
were caught / n the fall. Though
not badly injured they were extricated
with great difficulty. The men who
were at work are now afraid to re-ente1
the NINE, and there appears to be no
possible hope of rescuing the imprisoned
men alive. They have been imprisoned
since Friday morning. 1t is believed it
| will take seven days to penetrate the
mass of earth now obstructing the pas
sages. The scenes around the mines are
| ipdeseribable. Women and children,
who have hardly closed their eyes since
Friday, are made nearly crazy by the
fresh calamity. Screams and walls OF
anguish from the are continuous
while the disheartened and exhausted
miners sit around the mouth of the mine
in sullen despair. Crowds of people TO,
miles around are coming to view the
scene.
AT 1890 this morning the mine Of
ticials at Nautlcoke decided to abandon
work on the air shaft on account of the
cave in and presence of the fire damp
All attempts TO get the missing men on
alive have now been abandoned, bu'
work through the tunnel will be pushec
steadily forward. 1t will probably be
two weeks before the bodies are reach
ed.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Dec. 22-There wal
no rest for the Nanticoke last night, ant
it is impossible to describe IL words, th.
CONSERVATION, dismay and agony whicl
prevailed throughout the village whel
it was learned, after midnight, that a.
efforts to get the entombed miners on
alive, was abandoned. The town neve
saw such u sight as that witnessed from
two to four o'clock this morning. N
one thought of rest as the whole popula
ton was on the streets discussing in tn
widest manner the decision t
abandon the effort ofs a rescue
Exclamations of despair, cries OF agon.
and mutterings of discomfort were hear
on every corner and in almost ever.
household and the relations of the ur
fortunate victims were in the wildes
agony of despair. Several were seize
with commissions. Fannie Sarver, a sill
ter of the two Saver brothers, ws
Frustrated with violent fits and at iv
this morning it was thought she woul
die. Mrs. KiveIer, the aged mother {
the Kiveler brothers, was at death
door from weakness caused by tt
shock and many other relatives an
friends were completely Frustrated.
At six o'clock this morning it We
reported that the officials Of til
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre COT
company are going to sink a sha
directly over the slope where the impri
oned miners are supposed to be. 1t
thought by doing this they can reac
the victims in about four days. Thel
are twenty-three miners entombed.
The officials in charge of the %rescuin
expedition were forced to abandon a
work from the air shaft by several col
illusions. Investigations at an earl
hour this morning show that sand roc
and cuim have fallen to such an exter
that the mine in which the imprisone
miners were, is now filled to the roc
and that the men are dead and beyor
all human help. The second caving
which took place during IL
night was very large on
the real extent of the damage ca
hardly be estimated, but it is grea
This fall brought with it volumes
black, damp and sulphurous case
which filed the mine and put q prem
ture stop to all work.