The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-07-27
DEATH IN THE PIT.
Frightful Gas Explosion In a Goal
Mine Near Pottsville, Pa
Fifteen Miners Meet Their Death-Oniy
One Man Escaped to Tell the Tale OF
Disaster--A Faulty Safety Lamp
Responsible for the Accident.

PorrsvrLLE, Pa, July 25.-Twelve
miners met their doom in a frightfut
explosion at the York Farm collie'y
Saturday morning. Eight were KILLED
outright; three fingered, suffered ana
died; five others sustained injuries thHt
NAV prove fatal and score or more oil
miners, helpers aud laborers were IN
iured more or less seriously. Three OF
the dead are buried beneath tons OF de-
bris.
The explosion was caused by break
being made into a long abandoned feed
er, from which an immense volume OF
gas escaped with force suffi cient to pen
citrate the safety lamps carried by the
miners. The report was simply awful
The earth trembled and every building
in the vicinity was shaken.
Superintendent Leckie has large
force of experienced miners at work dig
ging for the bodies of the missing men,
This operation is extremely dangerous,
as a cave-in or another explosion may
occur at any moment.
The colliery Is owned and operated
by the Lehigh Valley Coal Company,
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Company being the lessees. Several
million dollars have been spent in put
ting the mine into working order, anc
it was thought that all the abandoned
feeders had been located. From time
to time new finds have been made, ou'
this is the first that has resulted ia
tally.
PoTTsvn. lE, Pa, July 26.-The list o
victims of Saturdays explosion of ga
at York farm colliery has increased t
fifteen dead and one momentarily ex
pected TO breathe his last Thus no
one of the men working in the vicinit
of where the explosion occurred will b
able to tell the tale of disaster eXcep
Llewellyn, the man who first notice
the presence OF gas and the usual rur
ming of coal, and who, by strictly con
J plying with colliery rules, had gone t
| inform the fire boss of these unusut
, indications and thus was absent froi
the vicinity of the explosion. His stor
: is that he and his "butty," Christia
HorniclSer, whose body still lies burie
} in the mine, had fred shot with
e battery in breast No. on the secon
D lift, and Immediately there was a stron
: rush of gas and run Of coal This g
r rushed up the airway connecting u
i first and second lifts and was ignited,
D is supposed, by one of the safety lam
:, that was either upset and broken
n faulty, and the terrible explosion fc
:, lowed, whereby the men working
!, the immediate vicinity were affected
t above mentioned and the gangwa
n filed with fallen rock, coal and timbC
r covering up the bodies of some OF Z
/! men. All the bodies have been recc
It cred except Harrison and Hornick'
% and it is expected they will be broug
to the surface before morning. /
Df complete list Of the victims follows,
IL of whom are now dead but one:
N George KrIse, OF Middle Creek, twenty-o
N years, single, laborer.
:, William Jones, Minersville, seventeen yea
:, Willism W. %eyman. Minersville, thirty-o
~ wife and several children, miner.
70 Anthony PutlAvitch, Pottsvule, thirty W
le and one child, laborer
/. Herman Werner, st Clair, forty'hVe Jea
T. wife and large family miner.
m Thomas Jones Minersvtlle, thirty'nVe yea
"A wife and four children, miner.
~ Anthony Stock, YorkVille, sixteen, sing
n laborer.
. Henry Madara, Pottsvllle, thirty-one yea
nS wife and FIVE children. miner.
I'd Edward Curran, Mount Lance, thry'i
Il. years, wife and two children, miner.
Thomas #. Landers, Pottsvtlle twenty'se'
IT, years, wife and one child, laborer.
IN Robert W. Allott, Pottsyille, forty-two yea
wife and eight children, miner.
n, G. d. Allott, Pottsyillo, seventeen years,
Nv gle, laborer.
James Hartzell, Leweilyn, thirty-seven ye'
or wife and one child, mine carpenter
ed John Harrison, Vaudeville, thirty years, '
a. and three children, fire bosa.
W Christian Hornicker, thirty.siT years,
lie Clair, miner, wife and three children.
N George Stock, Yorkyille, twenty-five ye;
'e' recently married, still living
n OF the above, Henry Madara, Thon
TN Landers, Robert and Charles Allott,
.er Edward Curran, who were still hv
lie when taken from the mine, died eli