The Indianapolis journal., 1890-06-17

CURED. OF these ffty-two, eighteen were
in the left heading and thirty-two in the
right heading. Those in the left heading
got out all right The retreat of the others
was cut of, and not one escaped. Their
names are:
JOSEPH BRIGNER, married.
RICHARD BRIGNER.
MILT FARNEY, married.
BARNEY MAUST.
EMANUEL MAUST.
PAT COURTNEY, aged forty years. married.
GEORGE COURTNEY, his son, aged seventeen
j. W. MITCHELL, aged forty years, married.
JOSEPH BIGLEY, aged thirty years, wife ard
PETER EAGAN, aged forty-four years, married.
ROBERT McGII.L, single.
MARTIN CAyENEN. single.
JOHN COPE. married.
ANDREW COPE, son.
PATRICK DEyLIN, married.
JOHN DELANEY. married.
JOHN JOHN DRv'ASSnSi fGx' %SSf!sa
DAVID DAVIS, married.
THOMAS DAVIS. son.
PATRICK CAHILL, married.
PATRIcK COURTNEY, married.
JoHN IoHN S,S%IHEIT S,1%TRHTNIEY; 4 his as,,o1 son.
DANIEL SMITH, married.
DANIEL sHEAKN, single.
WILLIAM HAYES. aged nineteen.
THOMAS McCLEARY. married.
ELMER DENNY, single.
PETER GRAUGH, single.
At 2 o'clock this morning the gang turned
in at the mines the smaller gang drifting
or to the left, while the larger. come
thirty-fve in number. drlfted to the right
and descended some eight hundred feet
from the surface and at least mile from
the opening. These two drifts are con-
nected, but the connection is from the main
stem, some half mile from the entrance
This mine, it seems, had been somewhat
troubled with water. and an air shaft had
been drilled from the surface to the juno
ture of the right and left shafts. where the
water seemed most abundant As the
miners branched off from this point they
know that an air hole had been drilled
there that had not yet been broken into
the mine, but they did not know that the
shaft was to be broken into to-day; this
shaft. by the way. being six-inch hole.
A miner named Kerwin had been left in
the right drift near where that branch
Joined the mines exit. and in the course of
his labors broke into the perpendicular
shaft. The moment this was broken into a
flood of water gushed out and Kerwin and
man named Landy standing by yelled
out for some one to save the men in the
right drift, as the water poured down the
hill in q stream and he feared they would
drown.
Young David Hayes, who had seen the af-
fair, leaped forward at the call and turned
down the left drift. in a deluge of water,
to warn his endangered comrades below.
Just as he passed the air shaft that had
been broken into, the rush of water had
changed to the ugly roar of food, which
blanched the cheeks Of the men who stood
behind and towards the light The flow of
water had changed to deadly volume of
fire damp. and, as young Hayes swung by
the shaft. q flash of blazing light slid
through the shaft from end to end, il
seemed. The daring youth carried an open
miners lamp burning in his hat and he had
hardly taken q step beyond the roaring
shaft when the spark ignited reservoir OF
tho deadly tiuid-fre damp-that had al.
ready accumulated. and he sank a corpse
, ten feet toward the men whom he had hoped
to save and the men whom he had certainly
doomed In an instant an unauenchable
fire sprang up in the nine-foot vein just be.
tween the main entrance ana on the righ,
drift forever shutting the thirty-two mer
I, imprisoned there.
| Poor old David Hayes. tho father of the
mistaken hero, driven mad by the fate oi
| his son, dashed into the sulphurous smoke
and strangling fire damp. only to fall blind
| ly beside of his son, and to be drawn out al
| hour later. with James Shearn, both recog
nized only by their wives.
! The fire, famed by aid from the mair
| drift and from the fatal shaft itself, soor
sprung into an awful confagration. Pa
| Kelly, who was driving mine car near th,
place at the time. says the explosion
seemed nothing, but the binding, strang
ling smoke and gas followed him like fient
to the very door of the shaft and poures
| out after him, to ascend to the top an,
| wave q black flag Of woe an,
mining region. The miners from tn
left drill escaped. blackened and bruised
but safe, and they tell fearful story o
the sight. Just beyond the blazing coal Of
the right. where half Imagination aud hal
fact showed them score of terrible face
walled In by flame no man could pass an
live.
Willing hands and hearts were not want
ing on the outside. and Clerk Cook. of tn
mines, with the mine inspector himself
Keaghley, headed o party OF one hundred
who entered the main shaft. and
after cropping on for a quarter of a mile
at last were driven back again an
again by the deadly gas. only I
recover breath for n moment. and agai
plunge in to find. at last, that the righ
drift was impenetrablo. and no man iivin