Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-03
AGLIMPSE Or HE'LL
Is What Was Allowed the Farm
Hill Mine Rescuers.
The Nauseating Odors of Burn
ing Human Flesh
Cause Them to Abandon Their Long
Sad Search for Bodies.

After Visiting Number of Places Where
the Men Had Been at Work at the Time
of the Catastrophe, They Decide to
Abandon the Work of Recovery-There
the Ashes of the Victims Will Lie Until
the End of Time-Signs of n Desperate
Dash for Freedom-The Suspense over.
DUNBAR, Pa, July Sat 6 o'clock
Tuesday night hope and work were
abandoned at the mine, and the dust or
ashes of the thirty imprisoned men may
rest behind the Dunbar hill till the last
day shall come:
A Practical He'll on Earth.
The last exploring party entered the
miae at o'clock in the afternoon. They
did not come out until o'clock. Three
of their number entered to within few
hundred feet of the subterranean fire,
and had found the dinner buckets and
blouses of two of the men. The ex-
plorers suffered from the intense heat
and black damp, and scarcely escaped
with their lives. 1t was trip to the
very gates of the most realistic and
PRACTICAL hell that could be found on
this earth.
No Trace Of the Men.
The explorers visited nine places
where the men were known to have
been at work. Their picks and shovels
were found lying where they had been
dropped. One mule was found dead and
purified Otherwise no trace of the
men could be found. The explorers
then voted to abandon the work Of re-
covery.
Superintendent Hill, after this, told
the men the company would, on Thurs
day, pay them the wages due, and ad-
vised them to go to work wherever they
could secure it. With this the greatest
rescuing attempt in western Pennsyl-
vania was ended.
viii Try to Save the Mine Property.
The company will, it is said, now at
tempt to save as much of the mine prop
erty as they can. The mine is sadly
wrecked, and it's restoration will be q
gigantic task. ,...
When VIII They he Used?
A car load of coffins is now here. The
question now is, when will they be
used"
Fifteen and half days have elapse
since that flash of gas set fire to the
Farm Hill mine. Tuesday night the
caskets which were so carefully and Sc
| cretly carried up to the mine were as
quietly brought back. So were the
stretchers and blankets and medicines
brought to the grounds by the physi-
Clans
| The Smell of Burning Human Flesh.
| Three of the party returned to within
few hundred yards of a bur ming sub,
terranean fire and satisfied themselves
that the men were dead, and that furth.
or search was useless. The stencil OF
burning human fl 3h sickened them
but they visited nine places where the
! men were known to have been at work
The picks and shovels were all lying
Just as man would drop them as he
started on a dead run for his life
Otherwise no trace of the men could bt
found.
Rescuers Struggle for Life.
While prosecuting their search still
further they ran into a dense cloud o.
black damp, which put out their lights
A struggle for life then followed, but
they succeeded in getting back to th'
rest Of the party. After a sad consulta
ton it was decided to abandon tn
search, and the party lert the pit to tel
the friends and relatives of the en-
tombed men that the search could no
be prosecuted further.
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