The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-02-05
One Nine Horror in Pennsylvania
Follows Fast on Another.
( TERRIBLE FLOOD OCCURS
At Jeanesyille, Near Hazleton,
in Hayden & Co.'s Mine.
An Appalling Loss of Iife-ExcItlng
Scena-Srlef Stricken Relatives Of
the VictIms-HtartrendlDg In.
cldents-IIOw the AccI.
dent Occurred.

HAZLEToN, IA, ceD, IA teIIlpIe
accident occurred at Jeanesville at II
o'clock this morning, whereby eigh.
teen men lost their lives. The accident
occurred in slope No. 10, operated by
J.C. Hayden & Go.
This working is situated Immediately
under the old workings known as No. 8.
and worked ou. CONC Eve yeera ago, aRd
were filed with water.
The disaster was due to the drilling
Of a hole through the pillar which
liberated tho immense body OF water
confined in the old workings, which
flooded the new workings, drowning all
the men in the portion of1hs mines.
The names OF the dead 80 far as learned
are as follows:
B. NJ. MCCLosREY,
PATRICK KELLY,
JAMES WARD,
LARRY RRKD,
EDWARD GALLAGHER,
JAMES GRIFFITH,
NIKE SMITH,
HARRY BALL,
JOIN BOYLE,
SAMUEL POTTER.
JOSEPH MATsKoy1TCH,
JAKE WIAsTo,
JoHN BERSo,
TON GLlE,
TON ToMAsHAY,
JOE AsTRo,
BosCo FRINKE,
THOMAS GREHo.
Most Of the above were married men
and leave widows and from two to eight
children each.
Those who escaped from the mine are
Henry Evans, John Helms, John Boyle,
Charles Boyle, Charles Call and Pat Call.
HOW IT OCCURRED.
The disaster was one Of the most ap.
pslling in the history Of this region.
The details are as follows:
At II o'clock this morning, while
Charles Boyle and Patrick Coll, Of Law
iRton, were drilling q hole in their
chamber in the lower lit oil No. ! slope
Of ]. @. Hayden & Co., at Jeanesville,
they broke into the old No. 8 slope that
has been idle for five years and had been
flooded to the mouth with water.
William Brislin, a driver, was at the
bottom OF the slope, when he felt the
wind coming, and cried out: "Boys,
for Gods sake, run for your lives, or We
will be drowned" In a moment The
force Of water came. and Brlslin barely
escaped with his life. Besides him six
Others were saved.
Tie waters rose rapidly and before any
attempt could be made TO rescue the rest
Of the workmen, water flowed in and
in five minutes the slope, which ia VA
feet deep, was filled to the mouth, and
eighteen men were buried in wasery
graves.
SCENES OF ANGUISH.
The news OF the disaster created the
widest excitement and the mouth OF the
slope was soon thronged with people,
frantic in their efforts to obtain iniorma-
ton OF the inmates OF the mines. When
all the. men who escaped reached the
surface, and It was known who the lost
were, the excitement increased and IN
less than half an hour hundreds OF men,
women and children gathered around
the plope, and the terrible scenes Of an
Vuiph that ensued cannot be depicted:
The weather, though bitter cold, did
not have any effect toward diminishing
the crowd, and 1t was only after the
terrible result was made plain that none
Of the entombed men were living or
Cnrid nopsihlv be reached until all the
water was pumped out Of the slope, that
he grief stricken friends OF the untor'
tunste men could be induced to 80 TO
their homes.
WILL PUMP IT OUT.
The firm OF Hayden & 90. will pump
the water out as rapidly as machinery
can do the work. How long 1t will take
ia question, since no definite idea Of
the volume of water can be ascertained.
Some OF the miners say 1t will take four
weeks before the bodies can be reached ]
others say twice as long. since all the
water that has collected In the ADAM
doned mine on the right slope will run
into the No. l slope, and will OF course
have 10 be pumped out: ,.,.
Many opinions are advanced e % ~
eau. 80 Of the calamity. Some charge u
10 ne. ,leCt to notify the workmen ot Ihe
danger, nus proximity Of tho water. the
pIope in question where the accident oc'
rnTred ia 4 new one sunk from the bot
tom of n worked out slope. The latter has
been flooded for at least sixteen months
and only a few Of the old miners knew
ri The nresenee OF the great body Of
water, and many time had the remark
been made that Il the lower gaugwsy
Torkinps were driven up too near
dreadful accident would be the result.
None OF the workmen mad any idea INA. ~
the working5 were driven as near 0tne
water as they were.