The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-11-15

Horrible Scenes Around the Rurning
Mine.-Thc Agony OF Relatives.

| Niue,-lne agony OF htciattveS.
Further particulars show the mining dis.
aster at Pittsburg, Kansas, to he still more
terribly fatal than at first supposec. A
soon after the explosion as possible th. T..
house was got to work in order to save a,
many lives as possible, and the rescuing par
ties started upon their ghastly work. It wa,
very difficult TO get at the dead and " ,uuded
owing to the damaged condition OF the bot
tom of the shaft Up to p. m., Sunday, 9t
bodies had been recovered, and IL was still O.
lieved so others were in the mine. The creates,
difficulty prevails in the work of identification
as not only are most OF the victims Italian and
French, but were total strangers in the local
/ ity, having been put to work within week
! or so.
Tho scene around the pit mouth was never
paralleed In the State OF Kansas. Some 2 1000
women, attracted TO the spot by the explo-
sion, crowded and jostlei one another for pri.
ority in examining the mutiated remains
which were slowly coming up. All morning
from Saturday midnight regular hurricane
prevailed, and as the winds swept the hyster-
ical wailing Of the widowed women across
the wild scene, the effect was heart,rending
in the extreme. Large fires built around the
pit added to the wierd aspect of the scene.
aud as the unfortunate women crept closer 10
the blazing piles Of coal for warmth the fan
tastic light of the leaping flames, blown wild
ly about by the storm, had the effect of max
ing the women appear and disappear like su-
pernatural visitants from another world
rnther than poor creatures bereft of home,
husband and children.
Some Of the men who went into the DIT 10
rescue the living aud bring up the dead,
tainted at the horrible sights presented. The
bodies were ranged in rows in the open air,
where the rain and the snow beat pitilessly
upon the upturnei faces. Some of the bodies
were horribly maugleI, one trunk being
taken up devoid of head, legs or arms, and
every bone in the shape'ess, pulpy mass
crushed. Men were at work all day Satur
day, digging graves in the little cemetery Of
the place, getting ready for the funerals, and
the work of recovering the bodies is still be-
ing pushed.
Additional particulars of the appalling
mine disaster at Frontenac, on Friday eve,
ming, are about as follows: Out of n total of
14, who decended into the mine,
only IA have Teen taken out alive, the
greater part of them being so badly burned
they cannot live. Thirty-six bodies were
found on the north and west sides where the
work OF rescue bad to be stopped until other
parts Of the mine could be strengthened, so
1t could be explored for the remaining vic
tins. 1t will pro- ably be three or four days
before the bodies eau be recovered, aud many
being burned beyond recognition, full list
of the names will never be learned. The fol.
lowing is u list of tho who are supposed TO
be still in the mine: j. Greittzger, Joseph
Krois, Louis Sozie, Frank Zellick, Peter
Knell, Fred. Yorkahan, James Quick, Charles
Fisher, VIM. Sharrarcl, VIM. Tunlees, Thos
Jones, Herman Smith, Anton Bieter, joseph
Romical,, John ID. Ibbey FL. Mole, A. Bar
Der, NJ Zulk, w. Jennings, l. Romica, ]. w.
Crockton, II. +. Harris, Ell. Longaka and z.
L. Bent.