The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-10
DIGGING OUT THE DEAD.
voRrY.EIGET CoRPsEs TAKEN OUT
OF TIE MINE.

-,sasn Of the 100 Injured Miners
~.ten Out Die Before Daybreak.
pauef Parties Still Trying to Bring
=. the Remaining Bodies-Muls g
Escape Unhurt'
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Jan. "a special to
40 Star from McCsllister says: "The ex-
..,.rnept, intensified almost to insanity. be-
oa,.a Of the mine explosion shows no
statement. All day yesterday and to-
dsv 1000 people were around the shaft of
.ho mine. Up 60 2 o'clock this morning
t--.v.eigbt dead bodies had been taken
~, Of the mine and 100 injured. fifteen
- whom died before daybreak. The
-sraiping eighty-fve miners are lying at
mir homes swathed in cotton and vaseline
rnto their eyes, with their eyebrows. hair
IA finger nails burned of and cooked
assb dropping from their bones. This morn
inc the company ordered sixty-hve cofFins
and the local undertakers ordered a car
load.
nAll the mines in the vicinity have shut
dawn and the miners and the women of
tbeir families are at Krebs, the miners to
AID the work Of rescue, their wives, sisters
and mothers to perform the offices for the
dead aud to relieve the suffering of the
wounded.
ALL HANDS HELPING EXCEPT THE NEGROES.
"Men of all uationalities are aiding in the
work Of rescue. Americans, Irishmen,
Scotchuen, Polanders, Welshmen, Ital-
isns. Swedes, all but negroes, are at work.
Same time since the white miners refused
10 work with the negroes. This morning
number OF negroes went to Krebs and as
sisted in the work in only a half-hearted
wav. and one Of their number was heard
to say that it served the miners
right 10 have been killed. The word was
nessed from mouth to mouth and the indi0-
nation and fury of the miners knew no
bounds. 1t seemed as though another horror
would be added to the scene, but United
States deputy marshal anticipating such
trouble, was on hand with posse and they
drove the colored men from the place at the
point OF Winchesters.
SAD SCENES.
"All day and all night scenes intensely
sad and heartrending were being enacted at
the mouth of the shaft. 1t was almost i'm
possible to recognize any resemblance to
human form in the bodies of many Of those
rescued Heads, arms, legs, hands and feet
the trunks. The pit clothes
were either partially or en-
tirely burned away, and in several
instances the flames had literally roasted
all the flesh on the bodies. The dead were
taken to blacksmith shop near the main
shaft, where a morgue was improvlsed, and
the living to their homes. A crowd passed
between the shaft and the blacksmith shop
al day. The latter place was constantly
crowded with people searching to find those
whom they knew must be either dead or
badly hurt
FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION.
The force of the explosion was terrific.
1t literally tore the mine all to pieces. 1t
closed up the galleries and tore down the
blrricades, which kept the air from cir
culatiOg freely through the unused
Il portion OF the mice, thus cutting
off all air from the galleries in use
and lett them as was supposed wholly un.
tehabe. None escaped with the exception
Of those brought up from the entrance, or
II Uy smart NO. e This morning relief party
oi hFebs miners was compelled after forty
eiSlI hourS steady labor to stop work. The
party was completely exhausted.
MULES ESCAPE UNHURT.
Three carloads of mules were in the
mlne when the explosion occurred. and
strange to say only two Of the animals were
aur'' !he boss driver was killed. The
Tenzed orutes committed great damage in
'nel Efforts to find an outlet.
Mining experts say the disaster was due
1.-TWO circumstances, the blast was over
charged and it was fired twenty three min
ales TOO soon. IL was fired at 5:07 O'Clock
.etore the miners going Off duty had left
@ .l9 nine. 1t should have been fired at $50
UclGcK. At that time the loss of life would
.s aoI nave beesS over half dozen, although
,Is. Ie wreck would have been equally extern