The record-union., 1892-05-16
A Cave-in at the Anaconda Mine
Buries Fourteen People.
ONLY FOUR OF THE NUMBER TAKEN
OUT ALIVE
Distressing Accident in a Leadvilie
Mine, Through Which Five Men
Wore Terribly ScaIded, Caused by
the Bursting Of a Steam-Pipe.
Special to the RrcoRp-Ux1ox.

BUTTE (AIont), May ia cave-in oc-
Cured in the Anaconda mine yesterday
noon on the SO0-foot level of the fourth
floor, which resulted in a terrible loss Of
life. There were fourteen miners at
work on the floor at the time. OF this
number only four were taken out alive.
all OF whom were badly hurt.
Following is list of the dead aud en-
tombed, who are supposed to be dead:
William Hyland. Tim c. Murphy,
Quinn Leary, Jerry NJ. Harrington,
Seward Stewart, Dan Sheehan, John
Nordstrom, John Smith, John d. Sulli-
van, Frank Aggaza and John Davis. In
jured: Mike Laughran, James Brcen, +.
j. Murphy and Robert Works.
Six of the dead bodies have been re-
covered, but the rescuers' work was not
finished last night as they are confronted
with an entire wall of ore, rock and
earth, completely filling the level.
The dead body ofWilliam Clark, which
was not included i'll the list, has been
taken out of the mine. He was smoth-
cred TO death. All the other victims thus
tar recovered were crushed by timbers,
rocks, etc. There is little hope that any
of the other men are alive.
OF those still missing it is considered
beyond doubt that John ID. Sullivan
and Tim &. Murphy are surely dead.
Murphy was only 20 years old and had
worked at the mine but month.
The four injured men are at the Sisters
hospital, two Of whom, James Breen and
Robert Works, are probably fatally hurt.
The cause of the accident is supposed TO
have been the shock caused by a blast.
The mine was well timbered and thought
to be perfectly safe.
FIVE MEN TERRIBLY SCALDED.
LEADvILLE, May ia horrible and
distressing accident, by which five men
will likely die, occurred at l2:l0 o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
Five pumpmen-Art w. Cramer, Billy
Little, James Murray, Edward O'Brien
and j. Sterling-were standing in the
pump station, 325 feet below the mouth
of the shaft in the Penrose mine, in
which huge duplex pump was running
at its full capacity, when the massive
steam feed pipe broke near the pump,
and quicker than words can express it
the station was converted into a kissing
caldrOn.
Little and Cramer were standing near
the pump and received almost the full
force Of the steam in their faces. O'Brien
fell, face downward, into a hole two feet
deep which was filled with water, and
Oilcoat was blown over his head, which
alone served to protect his face. His
hands, however, were fearfully scaldcd,
the skin and flesh peeling Off in small
patches. AS soon as the break occurred
all the pumps in the lower part of the
mine stopped, and the pumpmen below,
suSpecting that all was not right, sig
nailed the engineer to shut of steam and
started up the shaft to find what the
trouble was.
Arriving at the fatal station terrible
sight was presented. Lying in a heap
were the five unfortunate men. moaning
in a pitihle manner. To add to their
misery all were conscious and suffered
the most agonizing pain. The injured
persons were hurried 10 the surface and
physicians summoned, but for some time
they were unable to alleviate the suffer
ings OF the victims.
Little and Cramer were the most badly
injured, the flesh falling from their hands
and faces in spots. Cramer, unable to
control himself, bit and scratched the
men who were holding him, but he was
finally overpowered and forced to the
floor. Murray's, Sterling's and O'Briens
faces escaped injury, but their hands were
horribly burned.
The injured men were brought to the
cItV where IRA soon after 6iad