Huntsville gazette., 1890-07-05
A GLIMPSE Or HE'LL
II II .iat Wa, Allowed the Farm
iii!l Mine Rescuers.
Tho Nau5eating OdorS Of Burn
ing Human Flesh
Cause Them to Abandon Their Long
Sal Search for Bodies.

After Vi; ii"s a Number of Places Where
tn H1.. Had tseen at Work at the Time
Of the C--asirophe, They Decide to
A:':;n I'm .he Work of Recovery-There
the Ash Of the Victims Will Lie Until
the End of T.ma-Signs of a Desperate
Dash for Frc.sdom-The Suspense Over.
DUNBAR. Pl., 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 vhind the Dunbar hill till the last
day shall come:
A Practical He'll ON Earth.
The last exploring party entered the
mile at o'clock in the afternoon. They
did not come out until o'clock. Three
Of their number entered to within few
hundred teet Of the subterranean fire.
and had fuand the dinner buckets and
blouacs Of two Of the men. The ex-
plurers suffered from the intense heat
and black damp, and scarcely escaped
with their hives. 1t was trip to the
very gate Of the most realistic and
pra. .icill hell that could be found on
this earth.
No Trace OF the Men.
The explorers visited nine places
where the lnen 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 its restoration will be a
gigantic task.
when viii They He Used?
A car load of coffins is now here The
question now is, When will they be
used?N
Fifteen and half days have elapss
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 han1red yards of bur ming sub
terranean fire and satisfied themselves
that the men were dead, and that furth-
er search was useless. The stencil Of
burning human fl III sickened them,
but they visited nine places where the
men were known to have been ut work.
The picks and shovels were all lying
just as a man would drop them as he
started on a dead run for his life
Otherwise no trace of the men could be
found.
Rescusrs Struggle for Life.
While prosecuting their search still
further they ran into dense cloud Of
black damp. which put out their lights.
A strug; le for life then followed, but
they succeeded in getting back to the
rest of the party. After sad consulta-
ton it WAS decided to abandon the
search, and the party left the pit to tell
the friends and relatives of the en-
tombed men that the search could not
be prosecuted further.
AID FOR THE LIVING.