The Springdale news., 1888-11-16
THE KANSAS HORROR.
A Hundred and SfxtyFour Men
 EntomOed i'll a Nina.
Only Fourteen Rescued Alive. and They in Terrible Condition = \ Far. tial Li.t of the UdforLu
 nate Victinis.

its inhabitants occurred at dusk last night. For n few minutes the startled people scarcely dared to stir out of their buildings. The violence of the sho ok was so great as to hurl dishes from shelves and demolish chimneys Half an hour after the explosion the villagers, who were preparing to go to the mine, were startled by ragged, bleeding man, who almost staggered into the arms of tine searchers. He said that No. shaft at Fron tenac, a mining suburb of this village, had been destroyed by an ex- plosion, and that all the men in the mine at the time, except himself and Dane, whom he left bleeding at the mouth of the pit, were undoubtedly dead. Horses were quickly harnessed to wagons, and in few minutes the villagers were hur- rying through the fierce snow and sleet storm which was raging.
 Al the mouth of the mine the tremen- dous force Of the explosion was appar- ent There were huge seams in the earth and the timbers of the hoisting apparatus were shiyered and burned. Foul gases were escaping. The Dane who had es- capped with the man who alarm od the villagers lay in the mud with his face covered wfh blood. For long time it was thought he was dead, but he re- gained consciousness in few hours and l. now Ut his home He can not speak aud does not know what caused the ex- plosiou. His clothes were in ribbons.
 The man who reached this village with the first tidings of the disaster, and who accompanied the rescuers back to the mine, said the m were about to q ut work for the day when ths explosion oc- cured. Together with the Dane he had ridden i'll the car 10 the top of the shaft when the earth seemed to snap beneath him, and the next thing he realized was the splashiug of the snow and water upon his facs as he lay with his comrade in the wreckage above the Mine There were 100 men in the mine at the time of the explosion, and they were at work 1l2 feet below the surface. 1t is believed that not one survived the shock as the exp losion must have destroyed every thing in the pit.
 As soon as the relatives Of the miners, who live in the little cottages at From teGac, recovered from their alarm they went to the mouth Of the fatal pit and ma le pti1ul appeals for tdeir hu bands, fathers al sons to return to them. AL thousl the storm was severe and the cold
 
 poor, scantily- clal women stood about in the water until loag after midnight Big fices were built near the mouta of ths pit and Desid, these blazing piles the women placed their children while they themselves tried by all kinds of entreaties 10 induce the miners from tho other shafts to enter the pit and rescue their relatives. Oae resceing party started down ths shaft at seven o'clock, but was forced to turn back, owing to the foul air. Another attempt was made at nine o'clock, but the plucky rescuers again were forced to abandon their work. They could hear no sound from the chambers below and this leads old miners to believe that all the men in the shaft have perished.
 Those who started down the shaft early in the evening say that the shock has de- stroyed whole drifts anl that it is proba- ble that the men in the lower levels are buried beneath tons Of slate Black damp is supposed 10 have caused the explosion. Most of the miners at these shafts came originally from Illinois and Pennsylva- mia.
 Oat Of total O; 164 men who descended unto the mine, only fourteen have been taken out alive, the greater part of them b ,ing terribly and fatally burned; thir- ty-six bodies were found ia the north and west sides, where the work of rescue had to be stopped until other parts of the anin, could be strengthened. so that it could be explored for the emaining vic- tims. It will probably be three or four days before all the bodies can be recovered, and many being burned beyond recognition a full list of the names will never be learned.
 The following is list of those who are supposed tp be still in the mine: J. Greitz- ger. Joseph Krois, Louis Soze. Frank Zselick, Peter Knell Fred YorSaham. James Qaick, Charles Fisher, Wm. Tuu- ieers, Thomas Jones, Hermln Smith Anton Bietler, Ed Mole, John Ibbey. A. Barber, NJ. Folk ". Jennings l.. Rom- ica, J. w. Crock on, H. F. Harris, Ei Aongakl and P. E. Bent
 Up to noon yesterday partial list of dhe dead was
 John Labeca. James Barbiera August Barbera. Lew Lemon. John Lemon. Harry Hanson. Joseph Jalietta. George Crorksen. John Connors. Billy Foster.