Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-06-17
THE HAND OF DEATH.
Shocking Mine Disaster Near Dun.
bar, Pa, Resulting in Loss
OF Life.
THE WORST EVER KNOWN IN
THAT REGION.
The Chief Secretary ecr ireland
Aut%tei by Irish Members:
Stormy Scene.
UNEASY LIES TIE HEAp or Rus
sIs's ctlR.
Blaine on the Sugar Duty
Question: Fast for
Eight Months. =
rHE WORST EVER KNOWN IN
THAT REGION.
UNEASY LIES TIE HEAe OF Rus
sIS's cfkR.
by Telegraph ,s ,a- SE&s.
THE POOR MINERS.
Upwards OF Thirty Lives Lost by n
Mine Explosion In Pennsylvania.

Upwards Of Thirty Lives Lost by n
Mine Explosion in Pennsy IyRniR
DUNBAR, Pa, June l6.-This
morning at ll:4O a sullen roar shook
the lovely miners dwellings on
Hill Farm in Fayette County, near
this place, and hundreds Of alright
Ell persOns, who knew the sound too
well, and who feared another mine
disaster, soon found their apprehen-
siOns well grounded. Ina moment
the fearful news had spread that the
Hin Farm mime Nsd exploded.
The lcw-trowsd hill from which the
s;Ope entered shook from mouth to
pit, and the score of miners houses
shook for a moment and then poured
out their frcnEied inmates iy The
hundreds. A rush was i.nade 10 the
mouth Of the oft, but ingress was inn
pOs-it,An, As smoke in dense VOLUMES
was issuing forth.
Fifty-twO miners had gone TO work
in the morning and were in the
stOpe when the explosion occurred.
OF these fifty-twO, eighteen were in
the left heating, and thiTiy-fOur in
the right heading. Those in the
left heading got out all right. The
retreat Of the others was cut oil and
not one escaped. OF these twenty
one were married and had families.
The mine. it seems, had been
somewhat troubled with water, and
an air shaft haI been drilled from
the surface TO the juncture Of the
right and left shafts, where the
water seemed TO be most abundant,
As
TIE NttTTRs BRANCHED OFF
from this point they knew 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 he broken into
today, this shaft, by the way, being
n siS-inuh hole.
4 miner banned 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 rushed out and INerwin
and u man named Landy, Standing
10y. yelled out for some one 10 save
the men in the right shaft, as the
water poured down the hill in n
stream and he feared they would
drown.
Young Davis Hays. who had
seen the affair, leaped forward at
the call and turned down the left
drift 20 warn his endangered COM
rldes below. Just a. he passed the
air shaft that had been broken into.
the rush Of water changed ts an ugly
roar, which bleached the cheeks Of
the men.
The flow Of water changed 10 a
deadly volume Of fire,lamp, and as
young Hays swung by the shaft n
flash Of blazing light slid through
the shaft from end TO end. IL seems
that the daring young man carried
an open burning miners lamp in
his hand, and he had hardly taken
n step beyond the roaring shaft
when the spark ignited the reservoir
Of deadly firedamp, and he sank, a
corpse, ten feet toward the men
whom he had hoped to save, and
the men whom he had certainly
doomed.