The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-01-25
Terrific Explosion In the Frotscllritt,
Bohemia, Mine,
FRANCE AND ENGLAND AT LOG
GERHEADS OVER EGYPT
IAN AFFAIRS.
Women Waiting AT the Mouth of Ruined
EIine-English Troops on Their Way to
Egypt-Eight of the Panama swindlers
Convicted.

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Egypt-Eight of the Panama Swindlers
Convicted.
VIENNA, January 24.-An explosion of
fire damp occurred today in the Fort
schritt mine at Dux, Bohemia. Eighty
miners were killed and scores injured.
The explosion occurred this morning
when the shifts were changing. A cage
full of miners had been lowered half way
down the shaft when the ground trem-
bled, a loud rumbling report was heard
and the cable attached to the cage gave
such lurch that the lowering machinery
broke. The rush of air and dust from
the pits mouth, sounds of crashing tim
bers and cries of men in the cage gave
warning to the men above. The ma
chinery was repaired and the cage raised.
Ten occupants were killed instantly by
the shock 10 suffered fractures from
which they cannot recover, five who had
broken limbs and internal injuries will
live. They had been half suffocated by
the gas rising in the shaft, and said no
man could live below.
An hour later the superintendent of
the mine and five miners from the night
shaft went down in the cage. They
were unable to go more than a hundred
yards from the shaft into the gallery.
They found IA dead bodies. Of so men
watching for the cage 10 were killed and
40 p rtially crushed by falling timbers or
half suffocated by foul air. A short dis
tance from the shaft he superintendent
found fo,,,. hodioc or,,k oJ houopI raoorr
milton by falling beam. The bodies
and injured men were taken to the top
The men brought up from the bottom
said a few minutes after the explosion
they heard cries and groans from the
mouth of the gallery about 800 yards
from the shaft There is heavy timber
work at this place and they believed the
men in this gallery were imprisoned by
falling beams. They thought some 40
men were at work there. Shortly before
the cage came down, they said, the cries
ceased.
Another rescue party went down and
penetrated to the entrance of the gallery.
The entrance was completely blocked by
wrecked woodwork. The rescue party
could see several dead bodies on the
other. side of the timbers, but were un-
able to get at them. 1t is believed all
the men IN the gallery are SuffOcated OF
killed by the shock of the explosion.
Twelve miners who worked in the ex-
treme interior of the mine on the night
shift. and had not started for the shaft
as soon as their companions, are also be-
ieved dead.
The rescue party is still in the mine,
and thousands have gathered at the pits
mouth, The women of the dead mems
families attempted to mob the mine
officers, accusing them of carelessness in
the management of the mine and indif-
ference to the fate of their husbands and
brothers below. The mine officers sent
to Dux for police, and three companies
of soldiers are camped in the fiel dis
around the pits mouth tonight. The
miners families will probably remain
in the fields near the pit all night, despite
the inclemency of the weather.