Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-03
FIRE AND GASES
Do Their Work Well in the
Bohemian Silver Mine.
Two Hundred Lives Thought to
Have Been Lost.

ooNoHh Drape wen SACRIFICE Their Lives
In Attempting to Rescue Their I'm
prisoned Comrades-Many Bodies Re-
cov~ed-SOme Alive, but Fatally
Burned or Crushed.
VIENNA, June 3. - The latest news
from Przibram, Bohemia, the scene of
the appalling disaster in the Birkenberg
silver mine, indicates that the list Of
missing reaches the startlingly large
number of 300
At last accounts twenty-five dead
bodies, burned and blackened in terri
bic manner, had been recovered from
the mine, and twenty-five of the miners
were rescued from the death-trap in a
very precarious condition, the unfort-
innate men being shocllingly burned and
crushed.
All the injured have been removed to
the hospital, and are receiving the best
medical attention and nursing possible.
A large number Of persons have volun-
teered their services to aid in the work
of relieving the sutforings Of the rescued
miners.
1t has been found that most of the vic
tins, including three men who lost their
lives while bravely engaged in the work
of rescue, died of srifocation, being over
come by the fatal gases which pervaded
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succumbed 70 the fatal ilun2s'
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an examination Of the mne that the fire.
was caused by the reckIesancss OF a.
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the stringent RUE frame" 10 aFold just
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1T Is claimed by these persons that the
calamity was due TO the act OF some
CONSCIOUSNESS person, on persons, who,
probably from motives OF revenge, took
TINS means OF obtaining satisfaction Tor
an alleged grievance.
Large crowds OF excited persons, CON
sisting mainly of the families OF the I'M
fortunate miners, are pressing closely
about the entrances to the different
shafts.
The stricken people are loudly bewall-
ing the death OF their relatives, ana, as
the appalling extent OF the catastrophe
becomes apparent their gre1 Is growing
more and more uncontrolIaple' very
Affecting Sights
are to be witnessed on all sides, but
the most agonizing scenes occur when
charred and otherwise disfgurcd bodies
are hoisted to the surface and are recog-
nized by some of the weeping crowd as
the remains of a loved one who met
death in the fiery furnace. At such
times the lamentations and piteous
means are heart-ronding, and the stout
est-hearted are visihly affected by the
great sorrow manifested by the widows
and orphans.
Tho fire began III the Maria shaft,
Speaking tubes connect the surface with
the various. galleries. When the fire
was discovered no response could be
obtained from the tubes. but later, to
the Joy of the rescuors, voices came from
the gallery next to the burning level
"A dense smoke, Wllch killed iolr men
using the water hose, they falling to an
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