St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-16
NO HOPE OF RESCUE.
More Than a Score OF Miners
Entombed by a Sudden
Cave-in.
Fire Damp and Noxious Gases
Prevent All Attempts at
Suceop.
Heartrending Scenes at the
Mouth of the Pit Of
Death.
Crazed With Liquor a Virgin
ian Mortally Wounds a
Marshal.

in No. mine of the Lehigh & Wilkes
barre Coal company at Ashley. The
number of men in the mine is estimated
at twenty-eight. Hundred of people are
collected at the mouth of the mine
waiting news from below The eaKe-in
was caused by weakening of the props
supporting the surface. The caVe-in ex-
tends over a halt-miie square and IN
cindes a portion of the thickly settled
village called Alaffet's Patch. A large
number OF houses have gone down with
the surface, but only few of them
have been badly damaged. The fol-
lowing is a list of men who are known
to be imprisoned:
The official list of those Imprisoned is
is as follows:
Ellis D. Williams aged sixty, married,
seven children, resides at Hanover township;
Harry Parry, aged fifty, married, five child
ren. resides at Newport township; Owen
Parry, his son. aged seventeen. Michael
Henry, aged forty-twe, married, two sons,
residence. Ashley: Thomas C. Davis, aged
sixty, married, eight children residence
Ashley; John Scally, aged twenty, the support
of a widowed mother. residence Ashley;
Michael Scalley, brother of John, aged TWEEN
ty-seven. residence Ashley; Daniel Sullivan,
aged f9rty-five married, seven children, one
an invalid resides at Wilkesbarre; John
Hansen, aged twenty five. single. residence
Moffeus Patch: John Allen assistant mine
boss, resides at Ashley, aged thirty five, mar
ried, three children taken out seriously
burned at $50 p. M; Robert W. Roberts.
aged thirty-seyen. married, no children.
resides at Ashley Drought to The surface
at 8 p. M, fatally burned Harry Jones,
Iaborer of farmer, aged thirty-five. married,
three children. residence, Newtonship; Rob-
EFT X. Pritchard, aged thirty married, one
child. residence, Hanover; Charles James
u
dence, Hanover; Anthony Froyne, married.
one child, residence, Ashley Plain (reseued
at O'Clock, badly burned; John james,
aged thirty-two, married. tive children, fam
ily in Wales, resides in Ashley; John
Williams, aged thirtyfye, married. six chill
dren. residence Newton; Jonathan Will
Jams, aged thirty. married two children.
residence Newton; Richard Jones' aged
thirty, married, two children, resides
Newton; William Edwards aged twenty
eight, married. two children. resi-
dence Wilsesbarre; Thomas j. Williams,
aged thirty. married, one child. residence
ashley; Thomas Clauss, aged thirty-fire,
married. no children, residence Newton;
Owen Williams, forty-four, married, resi-
dence Ashley, one adopted child; John
Hempsey, aged forty-two. single. residence
MoHetts patch; Frank Gallagher, aged
twenty-nine, single; two Hungarians named
Butts; John benning, aged thirty-eigtt,
single.
At about o'clock it was announced
that enc OF the reSculng parties had
succeeded in breaking through one of
the chambers beneath the cave. 1t was
$50, however, before they reached the
first of the victims. He was lying at
the bottom of fifty-foot plane, and in
order to rescue him it became necessary
10 lower a miner down with a rope.
This was done, and the charred and
blackened form of Anthony Froyne, the
first victim, was hoisted to the surface.
He was still alive, but his injuries
are considered fatal. When the
news spread that Froyne was burned
feeling of gloom came over the
old miners present. for they realized
that there was little hope of his COM
panions having escaped death. Froyne
is supposed to have wandered away
from the others, and while trying to
find way out caused all explosion of
gas in some old chamber. Ii this eX-
ploSion extended to where the other
men were their chances of escape are
very Slight. The latest reports from the
scene of the disaster are to the effect
that the rescuing party has 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
urtaef approach III tllt uirecIion Oh
the victims is impossible. even with
safety lamp. AS it looks now, very
little hope is entertained that any of
the men will be rescued alive. The
men entombed are nearly ali married
and have large families. all dependent
on them for support. The scene around
| the mouth of the pit is heartrending
one. Wives and mothers crowd close
up to the dark opening and peer in as
| if their love would dispel the darkness
| of the fatal depths, while the cries of
the little ones calling for their fathers
make the nearer sick with pity. The
men who form the rescuing party are
strangers to fear, and if it is within the
bounds of possibility to reach the men
inside they will be rescued alive OF their
| bodies recovered before morning.
The opening thro ugh which the res
cuing party entered into the gangway
| at O'Clock tonight is on the north side
/ of deep wooded ravine. The space III
the immediate vicinity of the opening
is lighted with locomotive headlights,
| torches and lanterns, that shed weird
and ftful CLEANS into the yawning cav
ern, where squads of brawny miners
| labor, in the hope of rescaIng their fell
lows. Outside this small circle all is
| darkness.