The record-union., 1894-10-10
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

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SHAMoKIN (Pa.). Oct. 9.-By an explo-
sion in the Luke Fielder mine shaft last
night one man was killed and four others
imprisoned with no avenue of escape.
The shaft is on fire. Fifty-five workmen
were taken out alive. The fire started in
the airway of No. l shaft last night, and
Irwin Burlington, whom the colliery Off
cials hold responsible for the disaster, is
dead.
George Brown, miner, his Polish
helper, Anthony Roberttik, a driver boy
ana another Polish laborer are in the
mine and no hope is entertained of re-
covering them. The mine is mass of
flames and cannot be approached from
any direction. 1t is feared that the inside
workings will have to be flooded, which
means many months of idleness to the
800 employees.
Superintendent Morris Williams of the
Mineral railroad and Mining Company
says while Irwin Burlington, John An
derson, Jr., and others were retimbering
no. shalt Burlington disobeyed orders
Dy lighting naked lamp in the air course
for the purpose of testing the air. A
spark set fire TO the timber, which was as
dry as powder, and the current carried
the flames up and down the shaft like
lightning.
Burlington returned to the bottom of
the shaft to exchange his gum boots for
shoes, and this delay cost him his life.
superintendent Williams, Mine In
spector Brennan and Inside Foremen
HEIR and Kennedy formed relief parties
and rescued sixty imprisoned w.orkmen
by way OF the Coal Run workings. The
Workmep-cannot get near the fire on ac-
count ofthe smoke and gas, and the
hames cannot be fought with any success.
FATAL EXPLOSION AT PASADENA.
PASADENA, Oct. 9.-An explosion of
wooden still tank at the winery in La
manda Park, three miles east OF this city.
Monday evening. caused injuries which
proved fatal TO a. Bridgden, the manager
OF the Sierra Madre Vintage Company.
and cooper named Shannon. The men
were on platform over the tank when
steam under high pressure was turned
In, causing a terrific explosion. The
tank platform and men were thrown
some distance in the air. falling back in a
heap. The men were fearfulIy scalded
by steam from head to foot.
Bridgden died this morning from the
effects of the burns and the shock. He
was one of the wealthiest vineyardists in
this section.
ONE DEATH AND SEVERAL INJURED.
SEATTLE, Oct "A special to the
Post I1tetdgeRcer from Newcastle.
WASH, says: A dust explosion occurred
in breast thirty-five of the fifth level east.
OF the Oregon Improvement Company
mine, at O'Clock, with the result that
one miner is dead and ten are severely
burned, two probably fatally. The ex-
ploSlon occurred at an hour when the
second shift changed for the third shift,
and all the miners being in the gangways
accounts for the small fatality.
The dead are: George Parrish, English,
aged l9. driver.
The two probably fatally injured are:
David j. Lloyd, aged 80, Welsh, married;
Charles Giles, colored, aged 10.
Seriously injured: George Dobson.
single, aged Il; Thomas Pitts. single,
aged 26, Max King, married, aged 40:
David Powell, aged 10; Moses Harold.
colored; w. II. Hughes, colored; Jack
Paulson, single; Albert Jenni, single.
Others were burned and some who were
knocked down by the force of the ex-
plosion are more or less bruised.
The Immediate damage to the mine ia
slight, and it is said that $500 will cover
it. The mine will be in full working or
der in two days.
No one seems to know Just how the
explosion occurred. but it is believed that
1t occurred IN breast 50, the indications of
an explosion there being very evident.
AT the time of the accident l27 men were
at work on this level, which Is the only
one being worked at present, and had it
occurred little earlier in the day il
would have caught the miners in the adj
joining breasts, and the loss of life would
have probably equalied that at the Frank
lin disaster two months ago. The man
who is supposed to be the direct cause of
the explosion, George Dobson, is badly
burned, and ne has ever since been semi
conscious and unable to tell anything
concerning how the accident occurred.