The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1890-06-19
More Than Thirty Miners En-
tombed by an Explosion.

A special from Dunbar Pa, Tues
ihis morning at 1l:10 a sullen
shivering roar shook the Iow'v
miners dwellings on Hill farm
m Faye,ie county, near t"'s
place and hundreds OF aifrishted
nersons who knew the SOUND 100
we'll feared another mine disas-
,er and they reasoned far too
we'll In n moment the fearimi
news had spread that the Hill
farm mines. owned bv Philadel
mia parties, had exploded. Low
browrd hills from which the slope
entered shook from mouth TO plt
and The score of miners houses
I,ning The fa,a! hill shook for a
moment. ami then poured out
their frenzied inmates by the
hundreds. A rush was made 10
The mouth OF the PIT but insiess
was impossible, as smoke IN
dense volumes was issuing forth.
Finvtwo miners had gone 10
work this morning aud were IN
the slope when the explosion oc
Cured. OF these fiftvtwoiweniy
were in the left heading and thir
,ytwo in the right heading
Those in the left healing got on'
all right. The retreat OF the 9th
ers was cut of aud not one es-
capped
The miners from the left drift
escaped. blackened and bruised.
but safe and they tell a fearful
story of the sight. just beyond
the blazing coal on the right.
where half imagination and half
fact showed them a score OF Ter
r,ble faces walled in by a flame
no man conid pass and live.
Willing hands and hearts were
not wanting on the outside. and
Clerk Cook OF the mines, with
The mine inspector himself.
Keachley. headed party of 100
who entered the main shaft and
after cropping on for quarter of
a mile al least were driven back
again and again by The deadly
gas. only 10 recover breath for a
moment and again plunge in to
find at last that the right drift
was lmpenetrable and no man
living could pass in. IN the hope
of ever seeing score Of men dead
beyond. They finally came upon
two bodies and they were brought
to the opening of the mine.
When the / wo blackened corpses.
those of Shearn and Hays the el
der. we're drawn into the day
hight, a moan went up from a
few of the hundreds about the
nit. but their anguish vas as
moi hing 10 the silent watch kept
by the wives children and sweet.
hearts of the thirty more still In
the mine. The volunteer corps
worked steadily from noon until
late tonight with no result bnt
The two dead above named. and
each trip but brought deeper
despair 10 those above and
showed there was no hope and
no one alive below. The corps
of 100 was changed again and
again as each exhausted squad
staggered to the outer air. but all
in vain. One man. Kelly. who
had entered several times. finally
from sheer exhaustion fell int"
AIN open pit and was drawn out
fatally injured. Tie suIlen, low
ering night added rain to waste
and woe and anguish almost un
bearable 10 the wives. children,
sisters and sw eeihear:s OF The
men whose doom was all the
morel awful because unknown.
One could well enough stand the
whimpering of The children. who
missed the fathers friendly pat.
or the desola,e wall Of the strip
ling, but the suiien. stony glare
of he dark browed men standing
about. and the drawn, white face
of a wife or sister. or nearer still.
mother, were TOO pititnl Ia
comfort and too digalfied 10 pity.