Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-09
NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
From ALI Quarters.
ONE HUNDRED KILLED.
Result of the Terrible Mine
Disaster Thursday.
DEATH OF REAR ADMIRAL ROGERS.
An Interesting Budget Of
Foreign News.
FUNERAL OF THE kHEDIVE OF EGYPT.
The Warfare Along the
Rio Grande.
FUNERAL OF THE kHEDIvE OF EGYPT.
THAT MINE DISASTER.

Fully One Hundred Men Killed and
as Many More Injured-The Fatal
tiles Due to an Explosion of Gas
Terrible scenes About tho Shaft
The Work OF Rescue.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. S.-The Times
special from South McAllister, 1. T., says:
Twenty-four hours have elapsed since the
fatal explosion in the Usage mine at Krebs,
but it is still impossible to estimate the
number of victims. :. The number who
came up alive after the explosion can be
determined only by house to house can
vass, which is now being made. It is be-
lieved the killed will number fully 100, the
injured 115, about one-half of whom will
probably die. At the hour of the explosion
there were 400 men in the mine. They
were the day shift, and were preparing to
ascend when the explosion took place.
Six men, who had already been hoistsd
in the cage, had just stepped upon
the platform at the side of the shaft.
The cage was blown through the roof of
the tower, and 80 feet into the air. A
tongue of flame shot up the shaft and
above the ground fully 100 feet, which
was followed by terrific report, which
was heard miles around, and shook all the
neighboring country 30 violently that peo-
pie in surrounding mining towns thought
an earthquake was rocking the ground.
The men already above ground were pros
trated by the force of the explosion, but
did not receive severe injury. The scenes
about the mouth of the shaft Immediately
following were fearful in the e1-
treme. Weeping wives, mothers and
sisters focked to the scene
from the villages. The air-shaft was
the only way of escape for the entombed
miners. Many of the miners were able to
make their way out and were warmly well
coined by their friends. The injured were
quickly taken to places of shelter and were
tenderly cared for. One man with a
broken leg climbed all the distance of 400
feet through the air shaft and fell uncon-
scious as he reached the surface. Others,
who were terribly burned, labored pain
fully up the ladder, flesh falling from
their hands and arms: 1t is believed fully
one-half the entombed miners escaped by
the air shaft, though many of them re-
ceived mortal injuries.
The news of the disaster spread quickly
through the villages surrounding Krebs.
Hundreds of miners from the Braidwood
and McAllister fields also hurried to the
scene.
The work of rescue was begun at once
and has continued all through last night
and to- day. The work was terribly haz-
ardous. The explosion entirely changed
the topography of the mine. Many tunnels
were closed entirely and loose boulders were
balanced perilously on shelves of rock adj
joining the air shaft and the main shaft
which breath of air might almost hurl
down upon the rescuers. The workmen at
O'Clock this evening had recovered about
forty bodies They worked at both the air
number of twenty three, were Immediately
as morgues there were about seventeen
The rescuers can hear faint knockings
and far-off shoutings. They are digging
in the direction whence the sounds come,
and hope to rescue some of the men alive.
TALKING ABOUT THE MESSIAH.
Trouble Brewing Among the In
dams of the Pine Ridge Agency.
P1TTsBURa, Jan. 8.-Lieutenant Rorke,
Second United States cavalry, passed
through the city to-day, en- route to Wash
ington. He came direct from the Pine
Ridge agency, where he has been looking
over the field He said
Trouble is brewing among the. Indians
of the Pine Ridge agency, and it is my
firm belief thoy will soon start another
crusade against the whites. When I left
there few days ago they were sullen,
and ut times very ugly, and made open