The morning call., 1890-06-17
VICTIMS OF
FIRE-DAMP.
Terrible Explosion in the Farm
HiIl Mine.
Thirty tEO Hen Perish in a Pennsylvania
COal-Pit.
4 Volume Of Gas Ignited by Young Man
In Attempting to Warn Ills Com
TadeS Of Their Danger.
Special Dispatches to THE MoRNISe CALL

houses inning In6 IdIdl mn SuoOk iOr
rnoroant and thep noured forth their fran
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-ieu lnHH'09 ~ - AN9 va"
Maue 10 Inc mouth OI lne plt, Oul lhSIess
was impossible as smoke in dense volumes
,,-os is.,,i,,, fortl,
THE VICTIMS,
Fiftv-tWo miners had gone to work YES
tardev morning and were in the stone when
a. o,,aia.io, 9o,,,-rod M +basa fif,v tyo
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two in the RIGHT heading. Those in the left
got out all right. The retreat Of the others
was cut eff, and not one escaped.
Their names are:
Joseph Brigner,
Richard Brigner,
Barney Maust'
entaion, pmanue, cnmr,s uaus.'
W. N.f,oh-tI
Joseph Btciey,
Peter Eaeen,
Robert McGin,
Martin sesvene,
John Cope
ahdrew 0ope'
1919 1870 na9, n1sI,n,
John .Iov.
OOhu DeEanneYg
David Davis,
Thomas Davis,
Patrick Cahill,
m,aii miil,am C cahll'
ISoi, I,'opai'
Dan Smith,
Daniel smearn,
William II. Ayres,
James McCieary'
retef he1ouSh'
-1-"ie' -'"S'
MosI OF THEM MARRIED.
vi these tWenty-one were married and
have families. The mine. 1t seems, had
= been somewhat troubled with water, and
an air shaft had been drilled from the sur
lace 10 the luncture OF the right
ana lett Shalts, where the water
seemed 10 pc most abundant AS
the miners branched off from this
point they knew that an air hole Lad been
drilled there. but they did not know the
sha1t was to be broken in to-day. This
snait by the way, is slx-lnch hole. A
miner named Kerwin had been left
IN the right DRIFT, near where that branch
Joined the mines exit, and in the course of
his labors he broke into the perpendicular
sH"t'' He nioIlent 'hls WAS oroAeh INTO
N0UN u "a'ei susneu CUT anu her"Ih
an, an, = inau nan'eu h'huy s'anuing py
go 9.'. ioi Soie ohe W save 1he men IN
',ie ISM Su"i'' "S inc water poutou oo"n
the NH III d slream anu ne feared they
"oulu uIo"h'
A FATAL ERROR.
Hays, who had seen the affair, leaped
forward at the call, and turned down the
left drift to warn his endangered
comrades below. Just as he passed
the air-shaft that had been broken into the
rush Of water changed to deadly volume
Of fierce fire-damp, and rs young Hays
swung by the shaft flash of blazing
hght sAd through the SHAFT from
emu 10 ehd' seemed Inc daring
young man carried an open, burning
miner lamp III MS mai, ana ne had hardly
taken step oeyohu the roaring smart "nen
spdIA isHlleu INC reservoir Vi ueauly hre-
lamp anu nc Sam coipse' ten Ieet to"alG
.lie llleh ,ls nun nc n%u hopeu W s@'e anu
"lIoiL ne nau certainly uooiiieu'
i "i instant an uleueuc.aule I hle Sprans
up III .iIe ,Llno ~ az tne iooe Vi 'he 'elu' !usI
pet"eeh tne eutiaLlce anu the rlsht drilt'
forever shutI'hg OIL tHe thlrty-'wo men I'M
pllsoneu there'
DIED WITH HIS son.
Dnnr pld n.vid uat-c fath nf tho
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Hi9t@Aeh Il hero' oriSen Mad Dy the late Oh
MS son. dashed into the sulphurous smoke,
and, strangied by the tredamp, fell blindly
Dy the SIDE OF MS son, and was dragged out
an hour later with James Shefn, both being
recognized only by their wives.
The fire. famed bv the air from the main
drift ard from +ba fataI shatt CO.,, s,raoa
- -. - - e.' 60 '---'' Sr, 80 80
nv "u a"4ui cohAaslatiop' Ahe uiners
from the lett orl1t reached the entrance
blackened and bruised, but safe, and they
tell a fearful story of the sight of blazing
coal
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FUTILE ATTEMPTS AT hEsCUE'
Willing hearts and hands were not want
ing On the outside. and Clerk Cook. with
NTipa Tnsnoctor Ksoab1av bo,dod n nart,, ~
100 rnan wbo artarad tho n1oir
sbaf, md ot,or gronin1 nm for
o-i'!.' '-. 'iiu aI'e. stopins on iot
quarter oI d mile az ieast were uriVeh DacK
again by the deadly gas, only to recover
breath for a moment and again plunge in to
find that the right drift was impepetrable
and mn man living cnuId nass Thav fna1Iv
can,a nnon ~ bodias and ,ba,, ,'.aro
t",no La.e,', sP.n ~ '~ 90 "'e -, 'noJ "olo
DloukhI W the opo"ins VI the ihiDe Two
Dlackened corpses' Inree others were
brought into daylight and moan went up
gro far,r 3 4 In, s9s ,lso L.