The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-23
NO HOPE.
rbe Appalling Mine Disaster
at Newburg.
rup CAUSE OF THE CALAMITY
,..oo from All Quarters TIC
render Aid and Assistance
other kilograms.
No Hope.

vu,v1se W. Va, January 22--
DO &c no hope for any of the miners
1atombed at Newburg. 1t is expected
~ ,scover the bodies tonight.
ro,morrow morning work in the
- viii be continued, and through
No. nigbt by relief parties composed in
.t If men who have fathers and
s.otbers below. At this hour, the
o.ovd still stands about discussing the
.bsnces Of life and death. Crowds
-. neople and farmers for miles
haov in the country, are eager to
g % eomething and there is nothing for
W. .SoT NJ, IN do. The origin of the disaster
;tt.Ta,;onsIy determined by experts who
t.o I'm in their theories. A generally ac-
vi theory, which is that the COM
Hanv,s representative. is that Nick
gTHI;ams who was cutting ditch
,b-ongh rattes at the extreme
nd IF the working to let water off.
Knocked down the door to give
hin, better chance at this work. The
Ioor plsyed an important part in the
svsfen OF ventilation which was thus
deranged Foul gas collected in great
volume, and was fired by a miners
IsmD. One of the last men to come out
of the mine before the explosion says
he heard Nick Williams say he was going
20 knock the door down, and as he came
out he heard heavy pounding, as
though the door was being battered
down. The State inspector of mines,
On his recent visit here, recommended
10 the company to put in hue, but
ibis had not been done. There is much
talk Of an indefinite kind about foul air
in the mine, but l have not found the
miner who does not say that the air
vas good. have not been able to talk
with them all. McNicall, the company
manager, who came out from Balti-
more to-day, says they have never had
trouble with the air and have always
kept ahead Of the water. One fear has
been that the entombed men would be
drowned. but fortunately the pumps
have not been stopped since the ex-
plosion James Wilson, shipping clerk,
vas standing fifty feet east of the shaft,
hsard a thud, which was accompanied
Win dense mass of fog, and mud.
Before I had time to realize the situa-
tion-in half q minute-a second shock
came-terrihc burst of gas, ripping off
she weather boarding and demoishing
the upper part of the shaft, thus cover
ing much OF it, but this caught thirty
rine Door fellows down there and
I think their doom is sealed.
The engineer blew his whistle
and This, following the first noise, was
81 The notice the town needed. People
anew there was something wrong at
the nine, and those whose husbands
aid fathers and brothers were down
there kaew that. too. There was rush
% the works the women came fiocklng,
AID hen began the pitiful scenes which
YOU have seen here. 1t was terrible
NsaI. There was hope, then, and we at
p!ce began putting water down the shaft
10 scatter the after damp and create
craft. The men tried their best to get
down in the bucket. but they only got
part Of the way, for their lamps went
yi Fireman Carroll. an intelligent,
deserving man, says: There was moth
las he matter with The air IN the mine.
Il vas good, and you may judge what
ne men thought of 1t, when they
could go down at in the morn
ing and come up at 4 in the afternoon.
Sometimes they would sleep down there
olT and five hours. I don't know
wat caused this, but don't think the
aaoany can be blamed; nor do /
,ank there is the least disposition to
70 50. The people are crazed with
saei and are not responsible for what
Aey think or say"
At the bottom of the shaft the scene
Q, the wreck and confusion was horri-
ole. Men, mules, shattered cars and all
sorts Of debris we're piled up in con-
.IAon. The men tro1 on body before
Iley knew how near thew were to the
uead; From the wreck below it is sup
posed the explosion was violent enough
70 blow the men out of the most re-
note rooms though experts differ as
10 whether the stock would necessarily