Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-05
l NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
 From All Quarters. TWO MINE ACCIDENTS. Twenty Lives Lost by the
 Terrible Disasters. 4 SLEEPING CAR FALLS SIXTY FEET. Passage of the Diplomatic
 Appropriation Bill. AMENDING THE IDENTIFICATION BILL. Compromising on the Illi-
 nOis Senatorship.
\ SLEEPING GAR FALLS SIXTY FEET.
AMENDING THE FORTIFICATlOR BILL,
TWENTY LIVES LOST.

| Two More Mine Accidents in Penn. | sylvan1a-One Filled With Water l and Seventeen Men Drowned l Three Killed by a Cave-in. HAsL.EToN, Pa., Feb. "A terrible acci- dent occurred at Jeanesville at Il o'clock this morning whereby seventeen men lost l their lives The accident occurred in slope No. 10, operated by J. c. Haydon & Go. This working is situated immediately un- der the old workings known as No. 8, and which were worked out some five years ago and filled with water.
 The cause of the disaster was due to the drilling of hole through the pillar, which liberated the immense body of water con- fined in the old workings, which flooded the new workings, drowning all the men in that portion of the mine.
 The names of the dead so far as learned are: B. McCloskey, P. Kelley, James Ford, Barney Reed, Larry Reed, Edward Galla- gher, Daniel Connor, James Griffith, Mike Boyle, Harry Ball and five Hungarians.
 The news of the disaster created the widest excitement and the mouth of the slope was soon thronged. When all the men who escaped reached the surface and it was known who the lost were the excite ment increased, and in less than half an hour hundreds of men, women and children gathered around the slope and scenes of anguish that ensued cannot be depicted.
 The weather, which was bitterly cold, did not have any effect toward diminish ing the crowd, and it was only after it was made plain that none of the entombed men were living, or could possibly be reached until all the water was pumped out of the slope, that the grief stricken friends of the unfortunate men could be induced to go to their homes.
 The firm of Haydon 6 Go. will pump the water out as rapidly as machinery placed in position can do the work. How long it will take is a question, since no definite idea of the volume of water can be ascertained. Many theories are ad- vanced as to the cause of the disaster The slope in question where the accident occurred is new slope which was sunk from the bottom of a worked out slope The latter has been flooded for at least six
 
 knew of the presence of the great body of water.
 W1LKEsBARRE, Feb. IA cave-in oc- cured this afternoon in No. slope at the Grand tunnel, opposite the river from Nanticoke. Three men are shut in, and as the place is filed with water it is supposed they are drowned.
 The cause was similar to the horror at Jeanesville this morning. Some miners at work loosening coal fired all unusually heavy charge, which broke down the wall in an abandoned part of the mine which was filled with water. Most of the miners escaped, but John Riner, Mike Shelank and William Cragle, all married, did not hear the alarm in time and were either drowned or imprisoned in their chamber to die of starvation. Water now covers scores of acres of the subterranean work ings.
 SHAMoK1N, Pa., Feb. 4.-By an explo- sion of powder at Nelson colliery this af- ternoon John Duemann, miner, was killed and two Hungarians fatally injured.