Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-25
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
TERRIBLE Loss OF LIFE.
Eighty Miners Killed and
SufoCated.
ST. AUGus1Iak's CASINO BURNED.
The Fate of a Mother and
Her Children.
MEETING OF The GRAND CIRCUIT.
Several Fatal Railroad
Collisions.
MEETING OF The GRAND CIRCUIT.
EIGHTY MINERS KILLED.

| EIGHTY MINERS KILLED.
An Explosion of Fire Damp while
the shifts Were Changing-Sudoea.
y ton Of the Occupants of a De-
scendiDg Cage Rescue Parties
Working at the Risk of Their
Lives.
VIENNA, Jan. 24.-An explosion of fire
damp occurred in mine at Dux, in Bo-
hemia, to-day.
Dispatches tonight said that eighty
miners were killed and scores were in
jured.
The explosion occurred when the shifts
were changing. A cage had been lowered
half way down the shaft when the ground
| trembled, loud rumbling report was
heard and the cable attached to the cage
gave such q luroh that the lowering ma
chinery broke. A rush of sir and dust
from the pits mouth, the sounds of
crashing timbers and the cries of the men In
the cage gave warning to the men above of
the extent of the disaster. Help was sum-
moned, the machinery was repaired after a
delay of half an hour and the cage was
killed inetsntly by the shock, ten had
recover; five who had broken limbs and in
ternal injuries will die. They had been
half suffocated by the gas rising in the
shaft and said that no man could live be-
low.
An hour later the superintendent of the
mine and five miners from the night shift
went down in the cage. They were unable
to go more than hundred yards from the
shaft into the gallery, but they found
found fourteen dead bodies. Of the fifty
men who were waiting for the cage ten
had been killed and forty had been par
TALLY crushed by falling timbers or half
lance from the shaft the superintendent
found four bodies which had been crushed
beyond recognition. The bodies and in
jured were taken to the" top. The men
that had been brought up said that few
minutes after the explosion they had
heard cries and groans from the mouth of
the gallery, about three hundred yards
from the shaft. There was heavy timber
work at this place and they believed
that the men in this gallery had
been imprisoned by the falling beams.
They thought that some forty men had
been at work there. Shortly before the
cage Gallo OOWu Guoy bdlO tuo cEl6S CSaS6Q.
Another rescue party went down at once,
and after three of them had been carried
back to the shaft unconscious penetrated
to the entrance of the gallery The en-
trance was completely blocked by the
wrecked woodwork. The rescue party
could see several dead bodies on either
side of the timbers, but were unable to get
at them and returned to the top empty
handed.
1t is believed that all men in the gallery
were suffocated or killed by the shock Of
the explosion. Twelve miners who worked
in the extreme interior of the mine on the
night shift and had not started for the
shaft as soon as their companions are also
believed to be dead.
Despite the apparent hopelessness of the
situation a rescue party is still in the mine,
and thousands have gathered at the pits
mouth. When the extent of the disaster
began to become evident the women of the
dead mems families attempted to mob the
mine officials, accusing them of careless
ness in the management Of the mine and
of Indifference to the fate of their hus
bands and brothers below. The mine Of
fcials sent to Dux for police, and three
mpanies of soldiers are encamped in the
fields around the pits mouth to night. The
miners families will probably remain in
the fields near the pit all night, despite the
inclemency of the weather.