New-York tribune., 1891-01-29
BRINGING OUT THE DEAD.
ONE HUNDRED AND TEN BODIES RECOV |
Erred FROM THE MAMMOTH NINE.
NEARLY A SCORE OF VICTIMS BELIEVED TO BE
STILL IN THE ILLFATED sHAFT-MOURN-
ING IN THE LITTLE MINING HAMLET
SCENES AT THE MOUTH OF THE
PIT-CAUsE OF THE DIS
ASTER NOT KNOWN.

ten bodies have been recovered from the i'll
facd No. mine of Frick * Co. and OF thS
number seventy eight have been Identified. Their
names follows:
Teddy DOYLE John Eaton Garrett Hl'on, John
Van DOran nmmelton, Thomas Bfo~h' ~, nCU,
swnger. John Johnston, August Lunk, Jacob M%aynr, %
Doyle Martin Can. Levi, Lemel. William BuIclail,
James Murphy, James Iarmek. James swcls' G.,up ,I
IGn K1za Wo99 Daniel pEn %2TGon I,"a" eS EcrY Jon
Uhryn. Josef Dornick. Josef Dast AndIlZ TT g,;'
Michael M4asyoyak Jan Witab w.ieni Is Kepa Jos ph
Daaj. Michael Gusky, Shefan Btulah' JaihrS pccP.I'
Michael Iacinsky. Andrcs'e SnsunoSky. MIt,aa Eo;t
whisky. Anton Gtaway Jan Tomaz Hac1,n MIN rIn
Mntha Trcturey, Michael Kokorik, Inrn h|'i1 ?." m
kua ] sgnen Hrn s%"ri1' S%i1T Michael Slaeo
Andrew >ianncck Warren Lcpir. steven ShebGy; ,alR
Cornc valcn Roster Iohn olcna BoUNHy Hoktl' JHiin
Michael irrta Andrew swcrty. Peter swir een J,ln
Wu,AI, Michael John John Nm2n' Ioyd IoS,Pl '''''''
II is estimated that the bodies of at least seven
teen more victims of yesterday, explosion are StliI
in the nit, but it is thought that all Will be
recovered
Nobody slept at Mammoth last night In every
home in the little mining hamlet there was mourn
ina. vet there was no demonstration The ht'l"
one story houses, scantily furnished, were u
Illuminated with tallow candles. Mothers, wlves'
sisters and swecthcartS sobbed in silence After
the explosion yesterday the news oi the aWiui
fate of the score of miners at work IN Inc Sh''l
spread rapidly among the mines ana thc miners
homes Courcrs carried thc dreadful news hlth'T
and thither and families were dashed from the
comfort, of home into the depths Of grief ana
despair. Within an incredibly short time Inc
entrance 10 the shaft swanncd wlth an eager
anxious crowd Of men, women AMI chdren' some
OF whom could only with great dlihcuI'y ne kcp'
~ safe distance. As the bodies oi the
victims. manlcd by the terrible iofcc
of the explosion or burned almost
ont Of human scmblance. wore brought up from
tbc yayning depths. the crowd Of watchers pushed
forward 10 the pits mouth for one glimpse "i
recognition Hearts of wives and mothers stood
,tH in the fear that loved ones were among the
dead The disnierescd ones quacd before these
scenes. Tears coursed down bronzcd and bearded
Cheeks and were dashed away by brawny hands
That lad swung the pick for many years The
rr-Duue party proceeded with their grim task. ana
the crowd Of watchers silently looked on. II was
ore of those scenes which. once witnessed. rmalnS
forever impressed upon the memory OF the spec
tltOr.
This catastrophe. while involving more than
r.r Tine, the loss Of life occlSloned by tnr
dunbar disaster. differs in many respects from
the latter At Dunbar the explosion set tire 10
thc mine and the shaft for days and weeks was
a roaring furnace. adding horrors To the great
aialitv. In yesterdays occurrence this was not
,lc case. and by the perfect working of the fan
nurc mir was forced into the mine and the work
If rcscuinc was permitted 10 begin at once.
Fifty coffin. arrived from PittSburg this morn
iup and another half-hundcd will reach here To-
uiglt An additional order for Twenty-Five more
wa. .ert this morning No arrangements have
Vet been made for the funerals. The victims
VIII bee buried by the company. Many OF the I'M
fortunate men are IIunsarians. and VIII he sent
10 Scoltlalc for ntcrment.
There is ~ progress a roIl-coll Of all the men,
and later on the exact number ot missing Will
hc known. Tie rcscuing party is worknG with
heroic energy and the wreck Ill l"' SH'iiI - "
lng fast cleared mp.
An official of the Fricl Company said this morn
ing: 1T mov rcrcr be known now or why
the c\plo,ior occurred The accumulation ~
damp was probably the cause, but IT was
never known 20 exist in any quantity before;
i'm fact il may be said that the Nonmoth mine
ha, been free from dafp There IS theory
HAT a pocket Of natural ers was reached, and
that the operation OF the vcntllatinS fans now
prevents any accumulation of it, II IS not nccc>-
s,ry that every one in = mine be killed when an
explosion occurs The explosive may stay in one
particular section, and may not rcrmca'c the en-
tire mine. unless the volume is 80 great rs to
force il to every part of In" pit In tliN ease
tAc aa, va, confined to one portion, lnd the miners
who were in other locaiitic, escaped
The disaster has some remarkable FEATURES. II
WIS as deadly rs sweeping and as complete as
the ,.uking ol ship i'm midoccan IL history
is To be- told by those who do rot know II comes
80 yon like some whrlwind with blue tnfS
Of rainbow and when it bursts into flame il
p3sscs over your body like It great log. God
does not often let n man live to tell what has
happened 10 him. If il catches you upright y0d
are like Il leaf in a tornado and il rcnds the ribs
of slate in the openings like the ribs of a straw
rick" That was what a miner who has been in
the coal mine, thtS five years SAYS of the after
damp, the black-dcath' of the darkness. Never
i'm the history of American coal mining has there
been such an unexpected accident with such
complete annhiltion of oil within its reach. The
Mammoth mine has been notable always as beinS
particularly free from gas. hundreds of safety
gauge lamp, were provided for the miners by the
company, but they were never used, as they
were regarded as unnecessary. In their stead the
men wore the familiar little open fame lamps Oh
their hats. those small coGcc-pOt shaped affairs II
tin, which are fastened above the forehead Ill the
hcadgcar of the wOillmPn The mine boss had put
the night shin to work and found nothing 10
arouse his suspicion. Fire Boss Smith, man
who had worked in mines in Great Britain ana
this country for thirty years made his usual
careful inspection of all the ROOMS ana headings
at the customary time, between , and o'clock
in the morning His duty was to enter every
place where men worked and 10 marx upon the
wall of the room or heading the sign OF ms APP
proval-thc figures of the day of the month. Nhcn
the miners went 10 work on tuesday morning they
looked for the indication of the hre boss Tlslc
and il was there scratched into the Dack Jan
uary - Is9I" as on the days that had gone
before There was the familiar "all Is well.
As tho best Endorsement of his belief of the safety
of the mine smith remained for an hour longer
than usual with the men at work hlS BODY was
found scattered in fragments for hundred leet,
and il now lies in the public mOrgue, where scores
of backenpd bodies are being washed and made
decent for the grave. and there is a widow and
fatherlcss Girl i'm a house across the hills
Pittsburc. JAN 2s-A dispatch from Young
wood Penn saws: The darkest page in the