Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-01
rnE EsroMBED MINERS.
No Hope Of Finding Any of Them Alive,
and some of the Dead BODIES May
Never be Recovered.

No Hope Of Finding Any of Them Alive,
and some of the Dead Bodies May
Nrver be Recovered.
L0EpoN Aug. 27.-All night long the
volunteer rescuing parties Kept M their
work at the Park Slip pit, the scene of tho
disastrous explosion at iiridgend, Wales,
yesterday. They worked with will and
removed an. enormous quantity OF debris
from the mine.
At o o'clock this morning they had
penetrated 900 yards in the main shaft.
In all this distance not u sign of life was
discovered, but here and there the dead
body of miner was found, its attitude
showing
now SUDDENLY DEATH HAD COME.
10 them Some Of the men had died in
the very act of raising their picks. Ten
bodies were recovered of men who did not
have seconds warning of the fate hang
ing over them All who were killed in
this locality. however, had not met with
instant death. The bodies of two miners
were found who had apparently
MADE FRANTIC EFFORTS -...=
to escape from the pit. They had been
frustrated by the falling roof of the mine,
and their bodies were terribly mutilated.
Crushed to death, they were swept over by
the raging fire that burned out many of
the timber supports, and their arms, legs
and heads that had not been protected by
the fallen earth, were horribly burned.
The rescncrs are divided into relays. II
is impossible for any of the volunteers to
work for any length Of time, as the mines
are filled with afterdamp. The rcscuers
are showing the effects of the heavy work
they have done since yesterday morning,
but they work
WITH UEFLAGGlNG ENERGY,
II is thought that the bodies of the men
who were working in the inner recesses of
the mine will never be recovered.
LATER REroRrs GIVE ROOM FOX HOPE.
LoNDoN, Aug. 27-noon.-A dispatch
Just received from Bridgend says:
While n band of the rcScuers were
working their way further into the pit IA
SOUND was heard that caused the wurkmen
to suddenly suspend operations Eagerly
listening they awaited u repetition OF the
noise. Soon II come, low and weak but in
sufficient volume TO make the resGuers
know that somebody behind the fallen
rock and earth was alive.
WITH HEARTY CHEER.
In response the rcscuers again bent to
their task with renewed energy. Word
was passed TO the pit mouth and soon the
welcome intelligence spread around the
district that some of theimprsuned miners
were yet alive and that they would be
saved.
In Il short time there was a scene
OF THE Widest EXCITEMENT
about the put. Women and children who
had stood about all day yesterday waiting
TO see II the bodies Of husbands and
fathers would be brought to the surface,
ran to the pit, and in eager strained
voices, asked the officials If the news was
true. When assured that somco of the men
We're surely alive the scene was about as
affecting rs that Of yesterday when every.
body believed that all in the mine had
met their death Some of the women
FELL on THEIR KNEES AND PRAYED
That their husbands might he among
those whose lives had been spared Others,
still doubting the good news, stood per
fectl!y still and gazed with fixed eyes on
the burned and blackened mouth Of the
pit, as though they expected TO see the sup
posed lost men emerge from il.
TWENTY MINERS RESCUED.
Later-rhe rescuers finally came to an
open space where ~ miners were hnddlei
| together. They were alive, but in very
precarious condition.