St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-17

MILT FARLEY, married.
BARNEY MAUST.
EMANUEL MAUST.
PAT COURTNEY, aged forty years; mar
ried.
GEORGE COURTNEY. his son. aged
seventeen years.
JW. MITCHELL, aged forty years; mar
ried.
JOSEPH BIGLEY, aged thirty years, wife
and two children.
PETER EAGAN. aged forty-four years,
married.
ROBERT MGILL, single.
MARTIN CAVENE, single.
JOHN COPE, married.
ANDREW COPE, his son.
PATRICK DEvLIN, married.
JOHN DELANEY, married.
JOHN JOY, married.
JOHN DEVANNEY.
DAVID DAVIS, married.
THOMAS DAVIS, his son.
PATRICK CAHILL. married.
WILLIAM CAHILL.
PATRICK COURTNEY, married,
JOHN COURTNEY, son. :.
JACK MITCHELL, married.
DAN SMITH. married.
DANIEL SHEARN, single.
DAVID HAYES, aged nineteen.
JAMES MoCLEARY. married.
THOMAS McCLEARY, married.
ELMER DENNY, single
PETER MoGOUGH. single.
ATT o'clock this morning. the gang
turned in at the mines, the smaller gang
drifting off to the left, while the larger,
some thirty-five in number, drifted to
the right, and descended some 800 feet
from the surface, and at least mile
from the opening. These two drifts are
connected, but the connection is from
the main stem some half mile from the
entrance. The mine, it seems, has been
somewhat troubled with water, and an
air shaft had been drilled from the sur
face to the juncture of the right and
left shafts where the water seemed
miners branched off from this
point they knew that an air
hole had been drilled there that
had not yet been broken into the mine,
but they did not know that shaft was
to be broken into to-day, this shaft. by
the way. being six-inch hole. A
miner named Kerwin, who had been
left in the right drift near where that
branch joined the mines exit, and in
the course of his labors broke into the
perpendicular shaft. The moment this
was broken into, a flood of water
gushed out, and Kerwin and man
named Landy, standing by, yelled out
for some one to save the men in the
right drift, as the water poured down
the hill in stream, and he feared they
would drown. Young David Hayes,
who had seen the affair, leaped forward
at the call, and turned down the left
drift in deluge Of water to warn his
Endangered Comrades
below. Just as he passed the air shaft
that had been broken into, the rush of
waters had changed to the ugly roar of
a flood, which blanched the cheeks of
the men who stood behind and towards
the light. The flow of water had
changed to deadly volume Of fire
damp, and as young Hayes swung by
the shaft flash of blazing light slid
through the shaft from end to end 1t
seemed. The daring youth carried an
and he had hardly taken step beyond
the roaring shaft when the spark ig-
nited reservoir of the deadly fluid, fire
damp, that had already accumulated,
and he sank corpse ten feet toward
the men who he had hoped to save and
the men whom he had certainly doomed.
In an instant an unquenchable
fire sprang up in the nine-foOt vein.
Just between the main entrance and on
the right drift, forever shutting in the
thirty-twO men imprisoned there. Poor
old David Hayes, the father of the mis-
taken hero, driven mad by the fate of
his son, dashed into the sulphurouS
smoke and strangling fire damp, only to
fall blindly by the side of his son, and
to be drawn out an hour later, with
James Shearn, both recognized only by
their wives. The fire, famed by air
from the main drift and from the fatal
shaft itself, soon sprung into all awful
confagration. Pat Kelly, who was drlv-
ing mule car near the place at the
time, says the explosion seemed moth
ing, but the binding, strangling smoke
and gas followed him like fiend to the
very door of the shaft, and poured out
after.him, ,ascendedIto the top, and waved
a black flag of woe and distress OF this
hitherto prosperous mining region.
Desolation and Death.
Night never fell on gloomier scene
than this. Men, women and children
still stood about, hoping against hope,
and painfully. .awfully silent.Just inside
the man-hole. holding in his hand, a
flickering lamp, stood Father Mallory,
with his prayer book in hand reading
the last sacrament to the unseen un-
fortunates. He was not disturbed by
the excited, earnest wOrkmen, who
rushed hither and thither in their en-
deayor to get at the lost. Armfulls
of hay were carried in by the men