Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-02-06
A Pennsylvania Coal Mine Suddenly
Fills With Water From an
Old Shaft.
Eighteen Men EntOmbed-!t Will
Take Weeks to Pump the
Water Out.
The Mouth of the Slope ThrOnget
With Frantic Wives, Mothers
and Children.
Heartrending Scenes.

Heartrending Scenes.
HAZELToN, Pa, Feb. 4.--Eighteen men
entombed in watery graves marks the re-
suit Of the most awful mine horror that has
ever occurred in this region. Jeanesvlle,
the pretty little mining village of j. C.
Hayden & Co., two miles across the noun
tains from this place. is the scene of the
disaster which has resulted in such an ap-
pa!ling loss of life and which has brought
desolation and anguish to so many homes
and dear ones. At II o'clock this morning,
while Charles Boyle and Patrick Call of
Lewiston were engaged in drilling hole
in their chamber in the lower lift of the
No. l slope of J. c. Hayden & Co. at
JeanesviIle, they broke into the old No.
slope that has been idle for five years and
had been flooded to the mouth with water.
VIM. Brlslin, driver, was driving 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 all be
drowned !" In a moment the force of the
water came, and Brisin barely ESCAPED
with his life Besides him six others were
saved.
THE WATER ROSE RAPIDLY
and before any attempt could be made to
rescue the rest of the workmen the water
flowed in and i'll five minutes time the
slope which is 624 feet deep, was filled to
the mouth and eighteen men who but a
few hours before, with light hearts left
the bright sunshine and clear sky to de-
Scend into a dark cavern of coal were
buried in Watery grave and their life
less bodies, black trimmed and MANNED, are
alone left to tell the terrible cost of min
ing coal. The lost are: Lawrence Reed,
married, eight children; James Griffiths,
eight children; Harry Bull, married, seven
children;, Joseph Matskowltch, married,
four children; Barney McClOskey, single:
Patrick Kelley, single; Jake Wiasto,
single; Mike Smith, Hungarian; John
Berno; Tom GIisks, married, one child;
Tom T0maskasky, married, three children;
Joe Assro, single; Bosco Frinks, single;
Thomas Greks, single; two unknown
Hungarians.
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 in
formation 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 the terrible scenes of anguish that en-.
sued cannot be depicted. Wives imploring
piteOuSly Of the miners standing by, who
knew only too well the fatal result, to save
their husbands from the terrors of
watery grave; little children crying for
papa, who would never return; relatives
and friends ringing their hands in sorrow
and 6iStrpsS and aOOaaIinv In n,proiful
providence to save all, when within each
breast was q certain feeling that their
prayers would be unanswered.
PUMPING OUT THE WATER.
At about $780, J. C. Hayden & Co. had a
large force of men at work, under Master
Mechanic Rude, placing the pumps in posi-
tion. One was got In working order In
short time and every stroke of the pump
was watched anxiously by tie onlookers,
who seemed to count the throbs of the
mighty engine as it forced gallons Of black
the huge column of pipes at the entrance
Of the slope The large duplex Cameron
pump was also in working order by
O'Clock tonight and every minute takes
1900 gallons from the slope where the men
are entombed. The firm of Hayden & Co.
Will pump Luc WdI6T OuC Us Fdplu1y Us tHt
machinery placed in position can do the
work. How long it will takeis a question,
since no definite idea of the" volume of
the water can be ascertained. Some of the
miners say it will take four weeks before
the bodies can be reached; others say twice
as long, since all the water that had col
lected in this abandoned No. 8 slope will
run into this lift of the No. / slope and will
of course have to be pumped out.
zf ANOTHER CAvE,IN.
WILKES BARRE, Pa, Feb. A cave.in
occurred at s o'clock this afternoon in No.
8 slope at Grand tunnel, opposite the river
from NanticOke. Three men are shut in,
and as the place is filled with water il is
supposed they are drowned. They are
Polanders and their names are unknown.
fS Two Executive Messages.
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 4.-After a hot fight
sin the house this afternoon, lasting five
hours, resolution was passed by small
majority asking Governor Boyd to deliver
his message tomorrow afternoon. This
will result in two messages being deliv-
cred and IS the first recognition by the
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