Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-17
DEADLY GAS.
Terrible Explosion in a Coal Mine in
Pepnsylyapia


PITTSBURG, June 16th-An explosion occurred
this morning in the Farm Hill mine near Dun
bar, and only ten men escaped. There are at
least forty men in the pit, and it is believed
that they have been suifocated.
The excitement is very great, as 1t has been I'm
possible TO render any assistance up to the pres
ent time. Full particulars of the actual loss of
life cannot be given.
Another dispatch from ConGellsville SAYS An
explosion of fire damp occurred to day IN the
Farm Hill mine at Dunbar, when all the men
were in .he pit. Fifteen men have been taken
out badly injured. The others are thought 10
be dead, volunteer party is now digging for
them. a private dispatch says sixty five men
were in the mine, and of this nun, Der fifteen
have been rescued II is believed that the 9TH
ers are dead.
LATER ACCOUNT
DUNBAR (Pa), June 16th.-This morning a
sudden roar shook the lowly miners dselliDgs
on the hills in Fayette county near this plare.
Hundreds of affrighted people who knew the
town too WELL and who feared another mine
disaster, soon found their apprehensions well
grounded. In a moment the fearful news
spread that the mine had exploded. The low
brows of the hill from which the stope entered
shook from mouth to pit, and score OF miners
houses lining the fatal hill shook for moment,
and then poured out their frenZied inmates by
the hundreds. A rush was made to the mo ath
OF the pit, but ingress was impossible, as smoke
III dense volumes was issuing forth.
Fifty-two miners had gone TO work this morn
ing and were in the stope when the explosion
the LEFT heading and got out all right. The re-
treat OF the Others was cut off, and not one es-
caped. Their NAMES are: Joseph Briqnier,
Richard brighter, Nit Farney, Barney Mausf.
Emanuel Maust, Pat Couitnty, ]. W. Mitchell,
Joseph Bigley, Peter Esgan, Robert McGill,
Martin Servene, John Cope Andrew Cope, Pat
lick Ievlin, Joseph Delaney, John Joy. John
Devanney, David Davis, Thomas Davis, Patrick
Cshill, William Cahill. Jack Mitchell, Dan
Smith, Daniel Smearn, William II. Ayers James
McCleary, Elmer Denny. Peter MeGough. of
these, twenty-one were married and have tami-
lies.
The mine, it seems, has been somewhat
trcubed with water, and an air shat. had been
drllled from the surface to the junction of the
right and lett shafts, where the water seemed
TO be most abundant As the miners brauched
of from this point they knew an air-hole had
been drilled there, and that this place had
been broken into the mine, but they did not
know that the shaft was to be broken into to-
day, this shaft, by-the-wsy, being u six-inch
hole
A miner named Kerwin had been left in the
right drift near where that branch Joined the
miners exit, aud, in the course of his labors,
broke into the perpendicular shaft. The mo.
ment this was broken into, food OF water
gushed out Kerwin and a man named Landy,
who was standing by, yelled out Tor some one
TO save the men ia the right shaft, as the water
poured down the hill in stream. aud they
feared they would drown.
Young David Hayes, who had seen the affair,
leaped forward at the call and turned down the
left DRIFT 10 warn his endangered comrades be.
low. Just as he past the air shaft that had been
been broken into, the rush of water changed to
an ugly roar. which blanched the cheeks of the
men. The flow of water had changed to .
deadly volume of fierce fire damp, and as young
Hayes swung by the shaft flash of blazing
light slid through the shaft from end to end. il
seemed daring. The young man carried Ell
open burning miners lamp in his hand, and ht
had hardly taken step beyond the roarinr
shaft when q spark ignite6 the reservoirs o
deadly Ere, and he sank . corpse ten. tee. to