New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-25
EIGHTY MINERS KILLED,
THE DEADLY WORK OF FIREDAMP
A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN A BOHEMIAN NINE
THE INJURED NUMBERED BY SCORES
PUSHING THE WORK
OF REsCUE

or REsCUE.
Vienna Jan CAN explosion Of frcdamp oc-
CURED to-day in the Fortschritt Minr at DuN, III
Bohemia. Dispatches from DuX tonight say that
eighty miners were killed and scores were injured
The explosion occurred this morning when the
shifts changing. cage full OF miners had
been lowered half way down the shaft, when the
ground trembled and a rumbling report was heard
and the cable attached to the cage gave such a
lurch that the lowering machinery broke
! rush Of air 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 summoned,
the machinery was repaired after delay of half
an hour, and the cage was raised. Ten OF the oc-
cupants had been killed instantly BY the shock,
ten had suffered fractures from which they can
not recover; five who had broken limbs and in
| tcrnaI injuries will live. They had been half
suocatcd by the gas rising in the shaft, and said
| that no man could live below.
An hour later the superintendent Of the mne
| and five miners from the night shift went down
| in the cage. They unable TO 20 more than
a hundred yards from the shaft into the gallery,
| but they found fourteen dead bodies. or the
| fifty men who were waiting for the cage, ten had
been killed and forty had been partially crushed
by falling timbers half suilocatcd by foul AR.
short distance from the shaft the superintendent
found four bodies which had been crushed beyond
| recognition by falling beam. The bodies and
| the injured were taken 10 the top, where the
| whole mining settlement had gathered 10 watch
the work of rescue The who had been
brought up from the bottom said that Few mn
utcs after the explosion they had heard cries and
croans from the mouth Of "A gallery about
800 wards from the shaft. There heavy
timbcrwork at this place. and they believed that
the men in the gallery had been imprisoned by
the falling beams They believed that some forty
men had been at work there. Shortly before
the cage came down, they said, the cries ceased.
Another rescue party went down at once and, al
ter three of them had been carried back to the
shaft unconscious, penetrated 10 the entrance 10
the gallery The entrance was completely blocked
hv the wrecked woodwork. The rescue party
could see several dead bodies on the other side
of the timbcrs but were unable 10 get at thcm ana
returned 10 the top empty handed. IL is believed
that all the men in the gallery were suhocaten
or killed bv the shock OF the explosion. Twelve
miners who worked in the extreme interior ol
the mino on the night shift and had not started
for the shaft so soon as their companions are also
believed Ia he dead.
Despite the apparent hopNlcssncss Of the situ-
ation rescue party is still in tn" rnine ana %
thousands have gathered ~ tho pits mouth.
When the extent of the disaster began IN become
evident the women Of the dead men iamiiios Az
tempted 10 mob the mine officials. accusing th"m
of csrclessness in the management OF the MN"
and Of Indifference as ~ the fate Of the husbands
and brothers below. The mine officials sent y"
Dux for police and three companies OF soldiers
arc campcd In the fields around the PIT mouth
tonight The miners families are still at watch
and probably will remain in the fields all night,
despite the inclemency of the weather