Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-10
THE NUMBER KILLED
n tha McAllister Explosion viii
Never be Known.
TT7Y-ONE BODIES RECOVERED.
80, We're SSS Men in the Mine at the Time
sas Explosion, and lS7 Escaped Through
-a Air Courses but iOS Of Them VIII
Likely Die From Their Wounds.

H-AL1IsrER, I. T., January 9.-Ex-
..s~aut. intensified almost to insanity,
,s.srse Of the mine explosion, shows no
ITday yesterday and to-day 5000
-s-rrs were around the mouth Of the
L-f- crowding, jesticulating, Shrek
fr-; some attracted there by idle curl
-.-v born OF mOrbidneSS, but the ma
,--.-v driven TO the spot, half crazed
.-ro.-h their fears of what might be
realized.
O-hers we're standing about and their
5-T~sbed faces and eyes from which the
f-F- had departed told the same story,
b-- ro-G 10 in a different way.
In 10 . o'clock this morning forty
sr-ar dead bodies had been taken out Of
me mine and 100 injured, fifteen Of
whom died before morning. The re-
-sf1rnc eighty-fve miners are lying at
,-a.r homes swatched in cotton and vas
Sine ND % their eyes and with their
svs1rows, hair and finger nails burned
M and the cooked flesh dropping from
their bones.
Ar the mines in the vicinity have
.rat down and the men and women OF
,rs families are at krebS, the miners to
,ttthe work OF rescue, their wives, sis
,ars and mothers 10 perform the Offices
's- the dead and TO relieve the suffer
ipv Of the wounded.
Am day and all night scenes intense
and heart-rending which made women
shrek in horror and strong men weep;
which made some pray to God for relief
from the burden OF sorrow that crushed
-tefr spirits TO earth and which impell-
ss others 70 curse him for the same
cause, were being enacted at the mouth
5'the shaft. Such a panorama was
never before unrOlled 10 the gaze Of the
thousands assembled there.
It was almost impossible to recognize
sg7 resemblance TO the human form in
--s bodies Of many of those rescued.
Heads, arms, legs, hands and feet were
10 many instances torn from the trunks.
Perhaps il will never be known just
Row many lives we're lost In the accident.
some Of the galleries and their ap-
gr5aches are so blocked with debris that
e IS nearly impossible 10 open them.
The mine officials now claim that only
one man IS missing. This is an Italian,
Antonio GeneZtel, who has no family
and no friends except those who were
killed. His body is supposed to be near
The main entry. The men claim there
rs others dead or imprisoned In the
-re.
There were 333 men working in the
-ue on Thursday morning, according
70 the pay roll, and the tally reports OF
every man who goes down the shaft. or
.sese ifty-one dead bodies have been re-
covered, one hundred and thirty-seven
uso escaped by way Of shaft No. 2, now
Used as a ventilating shaft, and one hun
c-e1 and eight were rescued from the
main shaft in a critical condition.
This leaves thirty-nine still unac-
0untej for. The list OF those who es-
,aDed by shaft No. and Of those who
we're rescued from the main shaft is
s1Own 10 be incomplete and II is be-
.syed about twenty escaped who have
lot been listed. This would leave about
-.1eteen bodies still in the mine.
The work Of recovering bodies Is
sow and is impeded by the csying-in OF
. shafts and galleries. 1t is believed all
Who escaped death have been rescued.
w @iEUS VI llNU nAnCA1 NhNOlANSN Wv
20 the mine were detected to-day and
the rsScUers now expect TO find nothing
but the remains Of the dead.
It is now claimed that the undue
haste Of the entrymen to get away from
the mine caused the death OF many
miners. John Hurley and John Will
Ans are blamed as the the authors OF
he accident, but death had already
called them 10 a higher court. The
nine company and the owners are hold
ing an investigation as to the cause OF
accident.
The dead are: George Lindsey, Ed
ward Lindsey, Michael Jacob, Ted
Dram, John Ferrell, John Penso, Steph-
60 Fergene, Jeane Compass, Stephen
LstIro, B. Moss, Joseph COranto, Antonio
Geuesset, Thomas Kane, Joseph Clarke,
Joseph Rocco and two sons, Michael
aGi John; George Gregory, Joseph Nc
. Shane, Michael McShane, his son;
Alexander CorantO, Robert Mcconnell,
Patrick Powers, w. Walton, w. Mitch
s., ~ Janott, John Williams, Ted
h1b5, Thomas Bell, Angelo Ferro, u.
L2c6uo, Peter Collins, James Farno,
John Hartley, Michael Fuller, Peter
gesm0re, John Williams, n. y Indra,
John Gregory, Thomas Vale, Alonzo
1;egory, Peter Johns, Joseph NerYe,
LiTard BrentOn, John Bestive, William