Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-16
FR0H ALL QUARTERS. IAN EXTENSIVE CAVE-IN. Over a Score of Men En- tombed in a Coal Mine. r SERIOUS FIRE IN .WIHONA, MIN. IA Large Steamer Ashore
 on Florida Reefs. DEATH OF GENERAL N. H. DAVIS. The Proceedings of House
 and Senate.
DEATH OF GENERAL \. H. DAVIS.
BURIED ALIVE.

and Senate. BURIED ALIVE. Twenty-Eighs Miners Ensombed by she Caving In of . Mine-Many Houses In aToppIlnk Condition-Who the vie- tims Are-Extent of the Cave-ln- Th0usands Visit che Scenes-RescQ- ing Parties Doing Everything In Their Power to Recover she vic- tims-One Man Taken out Alive.
 W1LKEssAaRE, Penn, May 15.-The long series of awful mine disasters that have visited this valley within the past year reached climax this morning in the en- tombing of twenty-eight men in the Hart ford mine of the Lehigh and wilkesbsrre Coal company, at Ashley, three miles from this city.
 At 9 o'clock the community was greatly excited by the news that an extensive caye-in had occurred in No. 6 colliery, covering an area of more than ten acres. Thousands rushed to the scene and found that the surface almost as far as the eye could reach was scanned and cracked in long circular Assures, some of which were ever two feet wide. Directly beneath the portion that had caved in were twenty eight miners, in all probability ontombed forever behind an impenetrable mass of coal and rock. That portion of the mine In which the men were is known as No. 4 slope, and the cave-in, if 1t did not overwhelm them at once, shut of all means of reaching the surface. Rsscuing parties were at once organized and an opening broken through into @ man-way along the bed of 8 mountain stream where the chambers in that part of the mine came within few feet of the surface.
 All day long these men toiled like Titans at the hard and stubborn rock, while the weeping wives and little ones of the doomed victims stood around the opening and rent the air with their cries and lamentations. Gang after gang relieved one another until o'clock in the afternoon, when they sue. ceeded in breaking through the chambers beneath the cave.
 A period of indescribable suspense follow- ed among the waiting thousands. The men toiled on until 6:30 when there was oom- motion at the mouth of the dark opening and the foreman crawled out on his hands and knees and announced that they had found one of the victims. He was lying at the bottom of ffty-foot plane and in order to rescue him 1t became necessary to lower Q miner down with rope. This was done and the oharred and blackened form of Anthony Froyne was hoisted to the surface. He was still alive, but his injuries are con- sidered fatal. It Is supposed that Frayne wandered away from the rest of the men and in his efforts to find 6 way out fired the gas in an old chamber. If this explosion reached the other men their chance of escape Is very slight.
 Wreck and ruin was wrought as well on the surface as in the fatal pit. Nearly g score of houses were shattered and destroyed and the families compelled to flee for their the disaster at eight o'clock Is to the effect that the rsscuing party had penetrated to within sight of two dead bodies, but the gas Is SO thick that they were driven back to the surface. The place is full of black damp and further approach in the direction of the victims seems impossible. even with safety lamps.
 The cave-in is only short distance from the point where tho six miners, John Clark, Bernard Riley, John Green, Daniel Green, Daniel Hawkins and William Price were i'm prisoned in like manner during April, 1879, and who lived on mule meat for six days. when they were reached by . rescuing party and found in good health and little the worse for their hazardous experience. The men who are entombed are nearly all mar. ried and have large families all dependent
 
 | the mouth of the pit at this writing beggara description. Wives and mothers crowd close up to the dark opening and peer in, while | the cries of the little ones calling for their fathers make the nearer sick with pity. The men who form the resouing parties are strapgeIs to fear, and if 1t is within the bounds of possibility to reach the men inside | they will be rescued alive or their dead bodies restored before morning.
 kI ofk O lao Arah vrNpr | Allen, was brought out. He was badly burned about the face and unconscious from | inhaling the deadly after damp. He wat | placed in an ambulance and taken home. IL is stated hat Aliens lamp set fire to the gas that caused the explosion. At $40 o'cloci l Robert Roberts was found at the foot of the plane 90 badly burned that his recovery fl doubtful. Anthony Froyne was the thirt and last man taken out. He was burned about the hands and face and otherwise seri ously hurt.
 At midnight the rescuing parties wer, driven out of the gangways by the gas. They were obliged to leave their safety lamps out side and grope their way back in the dark ness where nothing could be done but lister now (12 o'clock) being made to change th air curren, to dive the ga. back from wher, the victims are supposed to be.
 The official list of those imprisoned Is a follows:
 Ellis D. Williams, aged sixty, married seven children, resides at Hanover township
 Harry Parry, aged fifty. married, five chil dren, Newport township.
 Owen Parry, son of above, aged seventeen
 Michael Henry, aged forty-two, married
 Thomas 0. Davis, aged sixty, married eight children, Ashley.
 John Scally, aged twenty, the support o a widowed mother, Ashley.
 Michael 5cally, brother of John, age twenty y-ssven, Ashley.
 Daniel Sullivan. aged fo1ty-fv years, ,mal ried, seven children, Wilkesbarre.
 John Hanson, aged twenty-five, singl Moffett's Patch.
 John Allen, assistant mine boss, age thirty-five married, three children. Take out at 8:30 p. m. seriously burned.
 Robert w. Roberts, aged thirty sever, ma ried, no children, Ashley. Brought to th surface at 9 p. m. fatally burned.
 Harry J. Jones, aged thirty-hve, married three children, Nswtown.
 Robert x. Pritchard, aged thirty, married
 Charles James, aged afty-two. married
 five children, Hanover.
 Anthony Froyne, married, one child, Ast ley Plane. Rescued at o'clock p. m. bad burned.
 John James, aged thirty-two, married, tV children, family in Wales.
 John Williams, aged thirty-fve, marris' six children, Newtown.
 Jonathan williams, aged thirty, marrie two children, Newtown.
 Richard Jones, aged thirty, married. tv children, Newtown.
 William Edwards, aged twenty-eight, ma ried, two children, Wilkesbarre.
 Thomas J. Williams, aged thirty, marie
 one child, Ashley.
 Thomas Claues, aged thirty-6ve, marie
 no children, Newtown.
 Owen williams, aged forty-nine, marie
 Ashley.
 John Dempsey, aged forty-two, sing
 Noffet's Patch.
 Frank Gallagher, aged twenty-nins, sing Ashley. Two Hungarians named Butts, Ashley.
 John Renning, single. ased thirty.eie