Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-08
E 10 II e FATE.

FAILURE of the Rescuing Party to Reaoh
the Twenty-Three Imprisoned Miners IN
the Flooded Shaft at Nanticoke, PA
sister Of Two of the Victims Dies of Ex-
cessive Grief-Two Miners Buried by
Sliding Snow in Colorado.
WrLKEsBARRE, Pa, Dec. 2S.-Ihere
was no rest for Nanticoke Monday night.
It is impossible to describe in words the
CONSERVATION, the dismay, the agony which
spread Throughout the village when it was
learned after midnight that all Of
forts to get the entombed miners
out alive were abandoned. The
town never saw such a sight as
that witnessed from two to four o'clock
yesterday morning. No one thought OF
rest. The whole population was on the
streets discussing i'll the widest manner the
decision to abandon the efforts at rescue.
Explanations of despair, cries of agony and
mutterings of discomfort were heard on ev-
cry corner and in almost every household.
Relatives of the unfortunate victims
were in the widest agony of de-
CONCLUSIONS. Fannie Saryer, sister Of the
two Sarver brothers, was Frustrated with
violent fits, and died in a few
hours. Mrs. Kiveler, the old
mother of the Kivcler brothers, was at
deaths door from weakness and the shock,
and many other relatives and friends of vic
tins were completely Frustrated.
The officials in charge of the rescuing ex-
petition were forced to abandon all work
from the air shaft by several irresistible
i conclusions. Investigations at an early
hour this morning show that sand rock and
| culm had fallen to such an extent that the
mine in which the imprisoned miners were,
was now filled to the roof and that the
men are dead and beyond all
human help. A second cave-in
took place during the night which was OF
very large proportions and the real extent
of the damage can hardly be estimated, but
it is great. This fall brought with it vol
INES of black damp and sulphurous gases
which filled the mine and put a peremptOry
stop to all work.
The fate of the men in the slope is sealed,
er the bodies. Wolk was commenced yes
terday clearing away the debris preparatory
to beginning anew. The operations at the
slope will be kept up. The most prac.
tic.l miners are of opinion that when the
dead mon are found it will be in their
chambers. If they have been caught in
the fall of sand and culm they will
be found one by II as the excava-
ton continues, and it may he two
months before the last body is recovered.
The project of sinking a shaft over the
workings of the fatal slope has been ADAM
doned. 1t would be necessary to go down
$50 feet to reach the nearest gangway, and
to do this would take three months or more.
1ale company will continue to work Oh and
clear the INSTRUCTED tunnel.
The loss to the company is estimated at
$3.50, 900, and will be increased by tae clear
ing away of a mile of debris, sand and rock
which is wcdged in a solid mass in the
gangways.
The following is a complete ani correct
list u the victims as obtained tor the first
time:
d; THONGS hoS cl1 if ra, II ye M;f'io %i'; Rixs; p shnnsr
II years; Edward Hargravcs, nA ntr. q years;
John Hawk, laborer, 80 years.; waa's:aw Jcl.
lam kiveler. laborer, II years: Frank Kiveler,
miner, 81 years, married; Maux Iongolki.
driver, aged II; Abram Lewis. miner, AZ
married; Vincent Luke, laborer. ~ years,
married; Edward Matthews, laborer. 20 years;
August Matule, miner, married, six children;
seph McCarty, miner, aged %, married; John
Zowach laborcr, ~ years.; Abram Rubinski,
laborer, 20 years, Isaac sarver,, miner, 2s
laboler, II years; John Shut, miner, Is years
married: Thomas Williams. laborer, II years.
BURIED IN A sNOw-CnoKED NINE.
SILvERToN, COL, Dec. ga snow-slide
came down the mountain into Minnesota
gulch yesterday afternoon, sweeping every.
thing before it. The slide struck the mouth of
the Prodigal Son mine. filling tile eighty.five
foot shaft and burying Burk uovey and j.
M. Scales, who were working at the bottom
at the time of the accident. The snow was
soon packed in SO tightly that 1t was i'm.
possible to move the bucket, which went to
the bottom when struck by the snow. A
rescuing party is nov at work, but all hope
of reaching the imprisoned men alive has
been abandoned.