Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-02-23
HORROR ON HORROR
q Series of Terrible and Dead.
ly Disasters.
THE MINE FIEND AT WORK AGAIN.


Already Reaches 113, with Many
wounded-Loss of a Ship and Eighteen
Lives Near san Francisco-Fire Wipes
Out Six Unfortunates at BrookIyn-A
4 Whole Family Drowned.
4 HALIFAX, \. s., Feb. 23-The first
great disaster in the history of the Cum
berland coal fields occurred SATURDAY. aft
/ ernOon, when an explosion took place in
the east slope of the Spring Hill mines,
! resulting in large loss of life. Many of the
1 bodies were terribly mutilated and it is
/ known that lib persons lost their lives,
/ and some families are mourning the loss
/ of two or three members As soon as the
4 news went abroad the mouth of the pit
was surrounded by shrieking women and
children, and the scene WAS one to stop
ones heart beats. 1t is the Creates dis
aster ever known in this coal field. The
two previous calamities were the explo-
sions at the Ford pit, Itellarton, ten years
ago, when forty-five lives were lost. and
the disaster at the Drummond mine,
Westvlile, seventeen years ago, when
i sixty-tive men were killed. The Spring
4 Hill mine is owned by English and Mon
treal capitalists. 1t employed 1000 men
and had an output of sec, 900 ton year.
The Mine Completely Wrecked
The mine has been completely wrecked.
Choke-damp set in Immediately after the
Explosion, and did its deadly work well.
kesculng parties were organized, and
brave volunteers were not wanting to go
&down to recover the bodies of the dead
land save those who might be alive. All
Knight long the work went on, and as
xcorpse after corpse was brought to the
*suriace the despairing walls of the be-
reaved rent the heavens. Many of the
plead were almst unrecognizable The
E1lrst exploring party found the bodies of
two SO badly mutilated that they could
#only be taken to the surface in bags. One
body was cut in two across the abdomen.
Eone arm was missing, the face was meas
&pf olackened, burned flesh and the ONLY
rhlng TO denote that it was a human BODY
was tuft of hair on the back of the
mead The brain was exposed to view and
#presented sickening spectacle
The Long List of Dead.
Following is a list of the dead so far as
known: John Hunter, Roger Nolles, Allen
Mckinnon, Labaugh McKinnon, Mat
Nocolson, Robert Clark, Stephen Rush
ton. William Kent, John Mitchell, James
4 Conway, William McGilliway, Will
lam MCGEE, Thomas Flacher, Reed
Carter, A. j. Mckay, Donald Camp
bell, Frank Letcher, George Woods,
John j. Mcdonald, Malcolm Navin. Da-
4 vld Mckinnon, l.. Guthrie, Neil McPhee
s John f. Mcneil, Alex Vance. Hirman
s Fife, Alex. Campbell, William Carricau
Peter Gallagher, Daniel Lockhart, .Johns
& Francis, John Navins, Angus McKinnon.
IT, William Hyde, Richard Dawson,
Thomas Wilson, James Miller, ST.,
Archie Shipley, Jerry Murphy, Norman
81 Mcleod, Rory Mcleod, John Williams,
s James Morris, Charles Nash, Joseph Tat.
#tersall, John Carmichael, w. j. Madden,
II Phillip b. White, John McKennon. ST.,
Matt Collins, Don Finlayson, Roy Nc
& donaldson, John Bentleffe, Hugh Rob
8ertson, William H. Turner, Edgar Wry,
T. y. Sherlock, Sam Legere, James Rob
&bins James Overe, Joseph Pitt, George
Bond, Clarence Carter, John d. Campbell,
<John Hayden, Charles McNutt, Richard
Murphy, Neil Mcleod, Jr., Reed Mcneil,
Pr, Peter Hannager, James Marian, Henry
Livingstone, Samuel Dawson, Jonn
ID. McEhren, John Crawford Thorn.
as Rogers, Samuel Muckley, Erastus Hay
Xden, Robert McFadden. Ernest Brain
bridge, Jesse Armishaw, Andrew Car
nichael, James Sharpless, William Car
michael, Jude Casey, John BOYD. Thomas
EHallett, William BurchelI, Alonzo Budd
Ernest Mott, Thomas Morrison, David
Watt, Arthur Anderson, Henry Mcleod
Ernest Chan Her, Fred Dillon, James Pc
quinot, Murdoch Ross, Alexander Blunt.
andrew Bunt, James Johnson, Joseph
Dupee, Samuel Furber, Henry W.
Ior NnIn
#Simmonds, Roger Ernest, Bruce Ran
#George Martin John Dunn, Peter Reed
land Fred Smith.
81 Terribly Affi icted Families
81 Jessie Armishaw went down No. 2sJone
#Saturday night and found his three sons
land brother piled together in hear in
lone corner of the mine. The sight so nm
Enerved him that he had to return to the
surface without his boys. Two sons of
Robert McVey, both under IA years, oc-
cupy one coffin. Hugh Bunt loses two
sons These sorrowful households are
pnly few of the large numbers from
(which bread winners have been so ruth
lessly snatcued. The deepest gloom has
Settled over the whole community.
The Most Seriously Hurt.
The most seriously injured are: Harry
Neils, slightly burned and legs broken;
ohm Conway. slightly burned and arm
fractured; John Dickens, seriously burned;
Gordon Carmichael, burned; Henry Nash,
slightly burned; Cyrus Munroe, Daniel
Robertson, Adolph Landry, George +.
Hopkins, Daniel Beaton.
The scene of the explosion was in the
Immediate vicinity of No. 6 and slopes
The greatest number of d eaths occurred
there This part of the mine was visited
by Deputy Inspector of Mines Madden
Friday morning, and he says there was no
gas to spak of at that time.
4 A BROOKLYN TENEMENT HORROR.
al wO Woman One Man and Three Chill