Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-29
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she was SO overcome that she was unable to be
present at the funeral.

she was SO overcome that she was unable to be
present at the funeral.
Crowds Attend the Funeral.
Six hundred persons accompanied the oodles
to Scottdaie, and when the train arrived there
several thousand were waiting In silence TO re-
ceive it. Many of the dead had worked in and
around Scottdale and were well known by their
fellow-countrymen there. Enough hearses
could not be secured tn convey the caskets
from the depot to the Catholic cemetery. over
half a mile away, and wagons were USED.
Then the long sombre procession started on
its way. preceded by Rev. Fathers Hamburg
ard Syniegiel and followed by vast concourse
OF people. the Slav race largely predominating.
Many of the women were clad in bright
hued dresses with brilliantly coIored handker-
chiefs tied around their heads, but those who
were there to bury their dead were invariably
dressed in black garments. As the procession
slowly passed along the road to the cemetery:
all the church bells in town tolled heavily and
added to the deep feeling of sadness which
oppressed the multitude. The day was gloomy.
the clouds were shedding fine misty rain and
night was fast settling down. The solemn
words of the burial ritual alone broke the
hushed silence. until the sound of the clods Of
earth falling upon the caskets of the victims OF
this great mine disaster loosened the spell.
A Scene of Grief at the Grave.
Women rushed frantically forward sobbing
bitterly and calling upon their dead ones. and
no one in that vast concourse thought it unI,
manly to shed tear. Then in one part of the
throng was heard again in a thin treble voice
the strains of the Slavic funeral dirge, it was
taken up here and there until the accents of
woe seem to fill the air and appeal to the very
heavens The strains died away as gradually
as they arose, night dropped her veil over the
scene, and slowly and sadly the army OF
mourners filed out of the cemetery.
All this afternoon and night Mrs. steven
Acoulya stood at the Dit mouth and implored
the men to bring the body of her husband. She
says he was working in No. at the time of the
accident. and knows that he Is killed. She
can't rest or sleep until she has wept over
his corpse. The mine officials promise that
every effort will be made to bring up her hus-
bands body at the earliest possible moment.
About o'clock this morning there was
panic among the workers in the mine, caused
by the terrible cry of "Gas, gas" from
Flat 3. James Brown and Fire Boss
George Piercy, of No. 2 were working here
and were overcome by the afterdamp; they
were taken to surface. 1t was so minutes be-
fore Brown was restored. Piercy, while ter
ribly sick. determined, when he saw the panic
among the men, to return TO work. and 1t took
the united efforts of half dozen men to prevent
him going into the pit again until he had re-
covered. The panic lasted but few moments
and the men went back tie work.
The dates for the funerals of the % victims
not buried to-day have been fixed. Some will
be inferred at Greensburg. others at Mt. Pleas
ant and few at Scottdale. William Banno3,
who has no relatives in the region, will be
buried on Sunday by the Knights Of Pythias, of
which order he was member.