West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-01-29

Chss. Tunely, married, New urg.
Peter Hanley, single, Newburg.
Michael Clark, single, Newburg.
Newton Moore, married Newburg.
Alvey Weaver, married, Independence
VIM. Ssnsbury married, Independence
Jas. MCGOWAN, single, Newburg.
Jno. Carroll, married, Newburg,
Wilbur Spencer, single, Neuburg.
Jas. johnson, married, Newburg.
Henry Guy, single, Neuburg.
Jos. Guy, married, Newburg.
Thos. Guy, single, Neuburg.
Richard Birtley, married, Newburg.
Jno. Byers, married, Newburg.
Clinton Albright, married, Newburg.
Jno. Conaway, single, Ncwburg.
Jno. Edwards, single, Newburg.
Adolph Wien, married, Newburg.
Jno. Lambert, married, Newburg.
Geo. higgins, married Scotch Hill.
f. Moore, single, Scotch Hill.
SOME SAD HOMES.
In addition TO the two young men
allowed named who leave young brides
under one roof, John Lambert leaves
wife and one child John higgins
wife and two children; Alvey
Weaver wife and four children;
Arthur Ogden a wife and two chill
dren; Ross Kelley wife and three
children; Daniel Miller, who with his
son has been found dead, leaves a
wife and seven children. Isaiah
Timmons and the eldest son are
down in the mine and = wife soon to
become q mother is left with three
children. Charles Tunley leaves q
young wife and infant; the three
Guys, two Birtleys and John Byer
are six out of one family. The two
Lsmberts were the support of wild
owed mother. Recently their bro.
ther was sent to Weston Insane As
ylum, where he committed suicide.
The town is able to do little for the
sufferers. The country people will
doubtless aid, but q liberal charity
can find here agood field for it's kind
office.
The east bound train brought q
great number from Clarksburg, Fair.
mon, Grafton and intermediate points,
and sympathising friends came from
as far as Piedmont. They suelled
the hopeless, helpless crowd that
hung about the pit mouth Men, wo.
men and children were gathered there
pale, trembling, weeping, staring at
the shalt, almost dumb with conster.
nation. Few words were exchanged
and those in low tones, for the people
there knew that they stood above the
tomb of thirty.nine men who went
down to death at o'clock yesterday
morning. In half an hour more they
would have been out, so narrow was
the margin between the sweet vel.
come of home and the appalling fate
that overlook them. AS / reached
the spot the men were still at work
fixing the shattered timbess of the
shaft, and other men were in the
bucket going down the black hole
into the blacker deep below; return
ing they brought no tidings for the
anxious crowd.
But soon the rumor spread that
the searching party had found at the
bottom Of the shaft Daniel Miller,
the eager, and his son, fifteen years
old, driver, young Timmons, trap.
per, and young Clark a driver. One
Of the party was credited with say.
ing that they found Kinney's mule
blown sixty feet out OF the stable.
with his halter on. The searchers
themselves would say nothing. It
was thought better to keep the Dire ld-
ful secrets that the lamps revealed
below, until a wider search brought
more definite knowledge, as there
could be no certainty az to the ident.
ity Of the blackened remains. The
bucket went down and up, the men
repairing the breaks in the air shaft
as they found them, the crowd grow.
ing larger and larger and pressing
harder on the ropes streatcbed about
the shaft, 50 eager were the people
TO get even = look down that terrible
hole, pushing the guards back 30
that a temporary fence Of rough
boards was hurriedly put up TO make
an enclosure, in which the work
might 60 on without interference.
As soon ss The shaft vas sufficient
ly repaired the cage was put on to
take down a larger working force, in