Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-11
FIRE-DANP
Again Gets in It's Awful Work
of Death in a Mine.
Ten Men Killed and Many
Others Injured.

without "A Moments Warning Death
Comes to Number of worlsmen in the
Bowels of the Earth--MOst of Them
Men of Familles-T Touching Scenes En-
acted About the Mouth of the Pit.
WMKEsBARRE, Pa, Nov. 10.-A terri
BILE accident occurred in No, shaft of
the Susquehanna Coal company, at Nan
ticoke, at o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Fifteen men were at work in the bot
tom of the shaft repairing some lattice
work when, without any warning what
ever, a large body of gas exploded,
throwing the men in all directions.
A Second Explosion.
A minute later a second explosion, less
violent that the first, followed. One of
the men, who was badly hurt, reached
the bell-rope and signaled the engineer
to hoist the carriage. When the car
riage came to the surface it was noticed
that nobody was aboard.
The engineer now came to the concll-
sion that something was wrong. lie
gave an alarm. The inside foreman was
summoned He at once made prepare
tions to descend the shaft. Before he
had gone down far he was driven back
by the fire-damp caused by the explosion.
He returned to the surface and pro-
cured safety lamps. Three men accom-
panied the foreman on his second trip
down. Before the bottom of the shaft
was reached the men on the carriage
could hear the groans Of the injured.
When the carriage reached the bottom
the body Of man horribly mangled was
found; five feet away two more men
were found cold in death
Foreman Reese gave orders that the
injured should be looked after fiji B..
Four men who were badly burned were
at once placed on the carriage and hoist
ed to the surface.
BY the time they reached the head of
the shaft a number of employees were on
hand to render all the assistance posi-
BILE.
The injured were wrapped in blankets
placed in ambulances and removed to
their homes.
Ten minutes after the first party of in
jured were brought up three more fol
lowed. They We're burned even worse
than the others. They were taken to the
engine house and wrapped in cotton and
oil.
The dead were brought up immediate
ly after the injured
Before the last body had been brought
up 1000 people surrounded the mine.
The Greatest Excitement Prevailed.
The relatives of the dead could not
control their grief. When the black
forms of the dead We're brought out of
the pit, women and children would rush
forward and attempt to clasp the burned
bodies. 1t was with difficulty that they
were held back
Just who is to blame for the explosion
is not known at present. The explosion
was caused by the attempt Of one of tAe
men to change the air current when his
lamp exploded. The mine was cOnsid-
cred one of the safest in the valley.
Gas was not known to accumulate in
large bodies where the men were at
work.
Killed.
Caleb Gitnings wife and six children.
John Arnot, wife and two children.
William Jonathan, wife and three
children.
w. j. Williams, wife and four chill
dren.
Henry r. Jones, wife and two chill
dren.
Thomas Lloyd, fifteen years old.
Howell Johenslli, wife and family of
small children.
John Maloney, wife and three chill
dren.
David r. James
W. J, Williams, Jr.
The four last named died after being
brought to the surface.
Injured.