St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-17
Twenty-Five Charred and
Blackened Corpses Taken
From Ashley Mine.
There Are Still Six Men En-
tombed in the Deep
Shaft.
Assistant Boss Allen Is Re-
sponsible for the Calam-
itoas Caye-In.
Drummers Fight a Duel to
The Death Over a Young
Woman.

WILKEsBARRE. Pa. May f6.--At 8
o'clock this evening all operations at the
Ashley mines were abandoned. There
were still six men in the fatal chamber.
They are Michael and John Scally,
brothers; Robert Richards, Michael
Henry, Ricnard Jones and Joshua Will
Jams. Work will be resumed in the
morning and pushed forward with
vigor. Six mules were taken out
alive this afternoon. The bodies
of five PoIanders were buried to-
day, no one having claimed them.
morning interrupted the work of at
tempting to rescue the imprisoned
miners. For four hours nothing could
be done, but at Z o'clock large party
of rescuers entered the slope and COM
menced work upon the cave, beyond
where three men were found last night.
They soon broke through and rushed
into the chamber beyond, where in the
semi-darkness men tumbled over
yielding bodies. A close search
revealed six blackened eorspeS
near the opening, none of them
recognizable. Further along at several
places were found thirteen other
bodies all more or less burned, but
none of them could be recognized. The
sight was so horrible that three of the
reseuers tainted away. A scene enSued
about the mouth of the pit which Will
never DE forgotten by those who VIII
uessed it. when the news of the burning
of the bodies became known to those IN
the vicinity. A strong guard OF men
held back the women, who pressed Tor
ward madly, to enter the mine. La
short time four men appeared.
bearing a body on Stretcher. The
women tore away the blanket, but saw
only blackened and charred remains.
Other bodies were brought out as fast
as possible, and at noon all but six OF
those who were in the mine when the
CAVERN occurred had been found. These
bodies were conveyed in ambulahceS to
undertaking rooms and prepared for
burial. The excitement was intense
and the streets in the vicinity of the
morgue were completely blocked with
people, many Of them came from other
towns. The scenes of mourning in the
town have never been equaled III the
PitifuI Spectacies Presented
since the great Avondale disaster many
years ago, when over one hundred
were burned to death. A guard Of spe
ciai policemen was found necessary to
keep the pressing crowd away from the
morgue. At O'clock two more bodies
were brought out of the mine. The
body of Michael Henry, known to be
under the immense mass of tebrIS. may
not be found for several Gays. john
Allen, the assistant fire boss, who
fired the gas, is suffering intense
agony. While Aliens face and hands
were but slightly burned, he inhaled the
fatal after-damp. Anthony Fr0yne and
Robert w. Roberts, the men rescued
last night, are to-day in critical con-
diti0n. and it is believed that both will
die. The names Of thnsesreportedsby the
reScuing party to be dead, in and out OF
the mine. are: Ellis d. Williams, Harry
Parry, Owen Parry, Michael Henry,
Thomas c. Davis, JOHN Scalley, Michael
ScaIley, Daniel Sullivan, John HasSen,
John Allen, Harry j. Jones. Robert \.
Pritchard, Charles James, John James,
John Williams. Jonathan Williams,
Richard James, William Edwards,
Thomas j. Williams. Thomas ClauSs,
Owen Williams, John Hemp5ey. Frank
Gallagher. Michael Henry and two
Hungarians named Butts. General
superintendent Philips In an interview
says: 1.-The men lost their lives through
the negligence of Assistant Mine Boss
Allen, who insisted on relighting his
lamp i'll he presence OF large volume
of gas. Had he not done SO the men
now dead could have all been rescued
alive. as there was good current of air
passing through the chamber where the
men had taken refuge after the cavern
had taken place.