Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-25
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As soon as the alarm whistle sounded from the engine house people began to crowd around the mouth of the slope, and the cry, The mine Is on fro!'' quickly spread throughout the town Among tho first to reach the sCcnC was Superntcnd- ent Ramsey. The first to volunteer was George Smalley, a negro, who. with two others, was lowered down the 1, 100 foot slope to tho sixth level. There they met men from tho sixth level south. who wero doing all they could to rescue men from the north end. Others went down from the surface and found the body of the first man in the gangway about |, ,0OO feet in from the slope
 The body was that of John O Ander. son and was pulled to the top of the slope Its arrival on the surface was the first in timatiOn tO the men, women and children there that any one had been killed Con sequently when the body came up there was q wild scramble to discover its iden- tity. Meanwhile the miners from the other levels were carrying on the work of rescue in the mine. The fan keeping air in the mine had been stopped at the first indication of fire, but when the rcscucrs went to work the fan was started again.
 NJ. ID. Storey, ono of the rCscucrs who went in from the surface procrCdcd along the sixth gangway after finding the first
 
 found scattered along in n TOW. At one place eight men were lying together, and in another one man was found under a mule, five mules in all being dead.
 Storey says that the men were all lying in the middle of the gangway, with their hair in the mud, as if they had tried to bury their heads completely and thus es- cape the smoke and gas. Ho could not be. lieve they were dead and turned them @N. II satisfied, however, that they were really dead. Nearly all the bodies were found south of the burning breast.
 Rescuers Worked Like Heroes.
 John C. Storey, brother of M. D. Stor. ey, was at work in the sixth level south when n boy named Chapman gave the alarm that breast 62 was on fire.
 Storey says he tried to escape via the Green river or auxiliary slope, but finding this impossible he returned, making up his mind that he should go out via the May slope. Reaching the May slope, he met others from the sixth level south, who were going onto tho north level to dc what they could to rescue their imprison. ed comrades, and he joined them, working steadily for two and a half hours before coming to the surface He thinks that every man in line with the deadly smoke was killed in two minutes.
 Among the rescuing party from the south sixth level was John F.. Jones, a gas tester, who is now numbered among the dead. His boy, Evan Jones, is also dead. The bodies of father and son were lying side by side, showing that the father had reached his son, but was too late, and both died.
 As the bodies began to arrive at the sur face of the mine slope the excitement of the wives and mothers, and, for that mat. ter, the whole populace, became almost uncomfortable. When the last of the 37 bodies was brought out, they began to quiet down. Many of them were com. pletely prostrated by their violent grief. Superintendent Ramsey, in speaking oi the disaster, said: "As soon as tho alarm was sounded tho men working at tho fan on top of the hill noticed smoke coming from the air course and not knowing the cause immediately shut down the fan. They did just what they should have done and had the miners not fingered so long at tho fire trying to put 1t out they would