Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-31
The MINE.
4 description OF the OrrOl Nine With
Diagram

4 description or ths Orroi Nine WIN
Diagram.
Syssll! % NJ SgHiiy R,g'stsr.
NfrsCRy January 3O.-Tbs vein Of
c,al niaei AZ this place b7 the O;5ei CJel
Company. in which occuTo1 to lac hocri,
bic accident. Is whe. IS commonly KNOW
as ,as pPsr Freeport. The shalt BY
which ,ae coa} ia bought up is tres
hundred AMI sixtyfee, deep. iour reporter
visited the u.ice today ard saw what may
literally 5e called a clown up coal
mine. Uas on the cage Gs II Is lowered u
i1..olucgd to additional stseGns ct water
urt!! /. reaches the bottom when he - led
10 b. .l'evs he he's run under the falls Of Nj
sser,. av mistake. Add to tGis iucessaut
norr cf water black darkness, which "a lit
tie overcome by the small safety lamp
us,i sJ.-.u7t WITH the uaea:. bly, uCise Of
uvp. MP
,h.t Ia. q capacity OF throwing seyenhun
drei a.i b.,y gallons CT water out OF the
miue nar mjnL;s, and one car gain aa
idea 4 how tne bottom of the shaft appears
nc, oaly b-t0re bu. after tee explosion
Stsupi.g c.f tba cage the first thipg hall
sca-aI pedestrian OBSERVES Is that The boz.
tom il too !s- bsIow high water mark to
make gum boots deseg,i2g Of praise Just
here !, Will be well 70 sale that lh5 water
rour. ,rsa the nine ct the rate Of three
hund:sd g,l!oa9 per minute. Going into
the main entry but EhcEt dI5tsnce the
eE c.s o. the exp'o,io!Ts to be seen IL
ablrda,t What is termed Oy miLers as
a ng o5struc;s the passage.
Quite 3 Gllu5-, Q! these
FALLS
we're oro luced bv the explosion Ia maay
cases :: ;s no. s.,up'y the Earring down OF
the o7erhungiDg slate but the solid sana-
stone has net with the sane tate Urea
holes torn out OF solid layers OF ro1S aTe
gorna Of tns few effects Of the igGlted gas.
Psssirs, on t'mbsrs. doors, brattices, cars
and everything in the mi'e sc touna
tbrogn ard iun5iad together n hears.
Not anfreq1entiy Pile OF debris cor
.,.o.j the boGy ot one Of tie Unfortunate
r;r.rs l., Is ssid by some tsmihsr with
the NJ. In. tiat where the largest ''aI!6 are
CoT,s rh.rs we're formerly indentahor5 IN
the root tr,t FINISHED reservoir ioF the
yas Sc the result OF GAich mo.e wAs pres
en-. ut the time OF the exp!osioG ana the
effect greater,
The main heading extends over one
thousand feet from the bottom OF the smart
tosayd the south. No butt-head'ns Is
aboat two hundred feet in length sna
leaves the main reiusn heading about the
sane distance from the bottom of the shaft
going % the esst. 1t contains four rooG-s.
No. leaves the main entry about hye
hundred feet from the 5hsi. and extends
toward the east six hundred aud MY ieet
and contains twenty-seven rooms. NO. ]
butt head ng leaves the main entry at us
beC3 aud is parallel with the others.
Tweaty-sHo men were killed
on TIE sEcoSo SIT HEADING,
here the work had for some tue heeH
principally carried on. At the mouth Of
the first right-hsa3 room of this heading
Sss located the door neSI ghich McWlI
EsE,s and Horny were known 10 6e al
york Mt the time Of the explosion. These
two msn, though known to be together
were thrown in opposite directions by the
explosion, and lay about seyentY-h'e tee
apart. Thei. bodies were found at tn
heads of the main parallel entries. N'nt
we're IN the room Of No. 3 Autt heading
The 6re-bosS, TimmonS, lay between tn