The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-27
ENTOMBED IN A Mine
Terrible Loss Of Life Feared in a
Welsh Colliery.
TIE MINE SUPPOSED TO BE OH FRI

One Hundred and Forty-three Mei
Imprisoned in Mine by an Ex
plosion-LittIe Hope That Any viii
be Saved-But Five Bodies Re
covered.
LONDON, Aug. 27.-A fearful minin:
accident occurred yesterday at the Park
slip coal pit, near Bridgend, minin!
town in Glamorganshire, Wales. TIL.
day shift of miners had not been lony
in the mine before most terrible ex
plosion was heard. The day shift com
prised 143 men, and their relatives an
friends rushed to the pit mouth to Learn
the extent of the disaster. ...
The explosion had caused the eartI
and rock to fall, and the mouth of tn
pit was closed. Not n single man of til,
lab in the mine had made his escape
and it is feared that there has been grea;
loss of life. Hundreds of the miners in
the vicinity have volunteered their ser.
vices, and the work of clearing the pit
mouth is being pushed as rapidly as
circumstances will permit.
All around the pit are gathered women
and children hoping for the best, yet ex-
pecting the worst. The mine officials
hold out all the hope possible, but they
fail to make the mothers and wives be-
heve that there is much hope.
The Pit on Fire.
A dispatch from Bridgend says:
"Though the volunteers have been
working since morning it is still i'm
possible to reach the miners who are
imprisoned in the Parkslip pit. From
the indications it is believed that the
whole interior of the pit was set on fire
by the explosion and that the flames are
still raging through the mine.
AS time passes and the prospect of
saving the men in the pit grows darker
many narrowing scenes are witnessed
among the throng of relatives and
friends, who have remained around the
PIT mouth all day. When it became
known that the timbers in the pit were
burning, women in the crowd wept bit
terly, while others with dry eyes wrung
their hands in the agony of despair. All
knew that it would be impossible for
the imprisoned men to live with the
flame and smoke filling the pit, and even
the most sanguine gave up hope of ever
seeing husbands, fathers, and lovers
alive again.
Two Bodies Brought Up.
At o'clock rescuing party ascended
to the surface, bearing with them two
men whom they had found near the
bottom of the pit. Both the men were
badly burned and unconscious. AS they
reached the surface the crowd pressed
forward, anxious to identify the res
cued miners, and from the women two
pushed forward with cries of joy as they
recognized their husbands.
The men were carefully attended to
by the physicians in attendance, who,
however, held but little hope of their
recovery. They say they haYe evidently
inhaled fire, and that death will surely
follow. Shortly after these men were
brought up the flames from the burning
pit assembled and set fire to the structures
at the pit head. .....
More Bodies Recovered.
Six bodies have been recovered from
the pit. The work of rescue is going on,
but owing to the difficulty with the ven
tilatfon apparatus, proceeds very slowly
hundreds of persons surround the pits
mouth, most of them waiting to identify
the bodies of relatives ard friends.
Ventilation has been partlyIrestored in
the mine after it had been stopped for
four hours. The work of rescue contin.
hes with desperate earnestnass, but SO
far without raSult