Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-01
AN ENTRY STRUCK.
MORE ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS AT THE
DUNBAR MINES.
Il Is Believed the RsScusrs Have Reached the Hill
Farm Mine-Thinks Soma o. the RntOmbel
Miners May be Alige-Their Fate
VIII Soon be Known.

DUNBAR. Pa, Juno 3O.-On the new
course the rescuing party has dug nearly
twenty-five feet anSis still in solid coal
The air is growing very bad, and the
chances are that the work may be stopped
on this account. When this decision will
be reached is no, known. Mr.. J. ID. Boyd,
the engineer who mapped the Hill Farm
mine, is out in an interview to-day. He
saws: Il have made a number of surveys
Of the mine, and each survey has conceded
with the others. In this way ] think my
work is verified. At one time | located Il
heading on the Ferguson, and at another
bore a hole into the mine, and each
SURVEY WAS CORRECT
and was made from the same points that
the map is made from. There is only one
way TO prove the survey. and that is TO re
survey IT, | always did my work in that
mine rs carefully as in any other, and no
mistake that there may be Is attributable
To carelessneSs.'
DO YOU think it would have been better
to have entered from the Ferguson side -
was asked
Yes, it would have been surer, and all
that there would have been TO fight was the
smoke. which. with aid of the fan erected
~ the entrance, could have been beaten
back and bratticed of, and when the slope
would have been reached, it IS my opinion
that the fire would have been found TO be
higher up the slope, and could have been
passed i'm safety
Inspector Keighley, when shown the in
terved. said: MIR. Boyd was present
At THE FIRST CONSULTATION
we held. If he thought the Ferguson mine
the best point through which to reach the
Hill mine. why did not he say so at the
time. "c
The Ferguson mine is not correctly sur
Vcved as the face of the party showed
which went i'm there 10 dig through. They
had 10 change their course and no one
knows where il will lead ] sent for Mr..
Bvod at least half-dozcn of times and he
never responded. | waited for him till ]
grew tired of waiting and then sent for the
Frick engineers. He should have been
here
Mr.. Boyd adds in his interview that he
did not make the last two surveys, but has
confidence in the men who did. Inspector
Evans. who was at the face of the entry
all day said that the men were working
like beavers and he was agreea0ly sur,
prised that they held out SO well. He said
the ventilation was bad and he feared the
entry for which they were heading would
be found away up from where they were.
The men had driven over 100 feet IN the
coal. where they should have gone only 60,
/ had the Hill Farm map been correct
/ DUNBAR. June 30 AT II o'clock tonight
/ thedrill struck through into an entry. The
air came whlstling through where the men
We're diggingas clear as Il bell. The drill was
| removed and the air was tested tits pure.
/ 10 will take till > o'clock 10 dig away the
coal so that the rescuing party can enter
the Hill Farm mine 10 search for the inn
prisoncd men. The men who have the
work of rescue in charge are sure some of
the imprisoned miners are alive if they
were not killed by the first explosion. The
utmost secrcsy is maintained at this hour,
for fear the relatives of the imprisoned
men might learn the news and insist on
going i'm thepit The fate of the men may
not bc known till morning.
At2:3O o'clock not a man had come out of
the mine Guards hold the entrance, and
n0onc can get near. The undertaken has
been busy for the past hour hauling up cof-
fins. Five have already been taken into
the mine. but at the same time blankets
and bed clothing have been carried in, So
il is a guess here on the outside whether
the me n are dead or alive II is not likely
that news can be got till morning, when
the police force will be doubled.