St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-09

nearly complete that the work is dread
fully slow. ALI the bodies in plain view
have been brought to the surface, but
there are others which can be seen par
TALLY hidden under fallen boulders and
masses of debris. The work of digging
these from their graves goes steadily
on, and frequently the cage is hoisted
containing the body Of another victim.
The cause of the explosion is still un-
determined. The probability is that
some miner fired blast without orders,
which ignited either accumulated gas
or coal dust. There is no means of
learning the cause now, and there may
never, unless some of the survivors hap
pen to know the facts. All who have
been seen say they have no idea how
the explosion was caused.
AJam of Dead Bodies.
Many of the men had congregated
near the bottom Of the shaft, and that
locality is completely damned with dead
bodies. 1t is stated that eighty-five men
succeeded in reaching the open air by
means of an abandoned tunnel. About
forty miners were rescued by lowering
of buckets at the hands of the resculng
party outside the shaft.
The mouth of the pit is continually
surrounded by a crowd of men, women
and children, neatly all of whom have
relatives in the mine. Their grief is
pitiable and their prayers and cries are
agoniZing as they beseech the rescuing
party TO increase their efforts to- save
their loved oneS.
The scenes in the village of Krebs
today were pathetic in the extreme.
Those who did not go to the scene of
the horror and who had missing rela-
fivnC xUprQ nearly pra2ld with any1atU
while those whose relatives had re-
turned to them safe from the jaws of
death were nearly craZed with JOY.
Compared with those whose relatives
were missing. those who had recovered
their dead were almost content. All
were saddened beyond measure. The
different miners organizations meet ID
night to arrange the details of the
funerals of the dead.
Owned by the Goulds.
NEW YORK. Jan. S.-Edwin Gould
said this afternoon: 1.-The mine men
toned in the dispatch from McAllister
is owned by coal company composed
of members of the Missouri. Kansas &
Texas Railway company, along Which
road it is located. / am the president of
the company and have talegraphed to
the mine for particulars. | do not think
although gas has caused terrible acct
dents in the various mines of the Indian
territory.
ST. LOUIS, JAMS. The officials of the
Usage Mining company i'll this city,
owners of the mine at KrebS, l. T.,
where the terrible disaster occurred
last night. have received dispatch
from McAllster stating that l43 miners
have been taken out of the shaft alive,
but many of them are badly injured.
AS the press dispatches from McAllis-
ter state that $50 men were in the shaft,
this report leaves 207 unaccounted for.
all white men.
As Dead. 146 Missing.
At 10 o'clock tonight forty-eight dead
bodies have been recovered from the
mine. The names OF ten more of the
victims follow:
George Lowry, Ozgus Felta. John
Williams, L. Hunt, Robert Powers.
William Mirtchell, Joseph Clark, Willie
McShane, Timothy Collins, James Tan
ner.
Among the fatally injured are: George
Harbin ST., George Hardin Jr., Frank
Hathaway, Joseph Osland, Enoch
Church, Willie Church William Will
Jams, Charles Martin. Louis Toobe. Jo-
seph Toobe, Giovanni, Biessant. Francis
1OZZle, BfanlZ blcaiDO ana JOUn ROSSl.
Those who at first went down the
hosting shaft after the explosion de-
scribe the scene as terribly revolving.
Legs, arms and headIess bodies We're
lying in mass at the bottom of the
shaft and scattered all over the various
approaches. Twenty-four bodies were
found at that point, but only SIX of them
could be identified.
Six small boys, names unknown, who
were tending the fans, were killed out
right and were found dead at their
posts. 1t has been learned that the ex-
plosioh was caused by George Lowry
exploding what is known as window
shot.'
The latest estimate of the number of
missing is 146, arrived at from the fol-
lowing figures: About 400 men were
in the mine at the time of the explosion.
Forty-eight dead bodies have been re-
covered. The names of ninety-eight
men slightly and seriously injured are
known, and about fifty escaped without
injury.
AToKA, l. T., Jan. s.-All the physi-
clans from this and neighboring cities
were called to the scene Of the mine
horror at Krebs today and responded
to man. About 500 miners from Lee
high and Coal Gate passed through here
to relieve the rescuers.