Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-25

SEATTLE, WASH, August ga ter
rife gas explosion occurred 10 breast
c. on sixth level Of the Franklin mine,
al Franklin, near this city, this after
noon.
Sizty-two miners we're imprisoned
and thirty-seveu were killed.
The fire was soon extinsuished and
the work Of taking out the bodies be-
gan. All were recovered. Following
is a list Of the dead whose bodies have
been recovered:
Frank Willis. col9ret. married.; Et.
Maxwell, c0l0red. single; Is. w. Jones,
cOlored. single; John tralt2lu, l-l--au,
single; jos Dawson, English, siu--e' II.
Il. Roberts, cOIorei. single; John Irving,
col0red, single; Joe Casse.i, Italian sing-e'
James Gibson. C1lUret, single; EJ. Joun-
son, Swece, single, Andy EDgCu1l, oWe-e,
single; Andy Greer, CJlored, single; JClu
". Pugh. WeIcu, married; j. Boss- Italian,
single; Ike Clmelts, c0-0red, uarrled'
Pete Elrrl, Italian, single; Robert NC
Coskey, Pole. SINGLE; Evan d. Jones,
Welsh, single; Peter Hay, scotch, mar
ried; Louis Farra, Italian, single; PLu
De Mari, Italian, married; john Stram-
bridge, American, single; John h. Jones,
We.ch, married; john Morris, Welsh,
married; John Hall, English, single; chris.
bunker, American. single; Charley
Streams, c0lOred, single; jacob Olsen,
SweCe, single; Evan Hughes, We-cn,
married; Rocco Tetti, Italian, single;
ID. ID. Jones, Welsh, married; a. j.. Jones,
c0l0red married; W. II. Jones, colored,
a| Nr#I w az q
William Secour. American, married.
About half OF the miners we're negroes
having been brought from the East four
years sgo 10 replace the strikers.
The mine is owned by the Oregon
Improvement Company, and produces
the bessA95 bal 10 the State Of Washing
ton. TLS damage 70 the mine is not
great.
A special 20 the P0stTBtclliJclccl
says: AT fifteen minutes % one o'clock
this aftsInoou. q fire was noticed by
So" AZ ,Ne drivers on the sixth north
- qr.f. tlcttCs was given 20 the men
fnside. ASEuy OF the mea 10 the gang
ways ruESd back 70 notify the miners
further TO-, while others rushed out and
reached the main shaft
II evident that all the men had time
10 come out, for those who worked 10
the further breast reached the shaft In
safety, while those who were nearest
the shaft, aud consequently more re-
moved from danger, perisheC. They
evidently believed they were O. perfect
safety, but while they fingered the
smoke o0zed out from outside places
further south aUd tLe bodies
were a.i found south Of breast 80. They
were on found along within space Of
500 fes,.
Several men were badly bruised aud
one colored man was taken out with q
broken neck. their wounds Indicating
that they had thrown themselves
against posts and timber of the gaugway
in a wild aud desperate eudsayor 10
escape. But the majority OF the bodies
bear no marks az all, not even a scratch
and their features We're In quiet repose,
indicating that their death had been
speedy and painless.
When the superintendent called for
volunteers 10 90 into the mines there
was great excitement. The hrst man
20 volunteer was George SnaIey,
negro. VINO, with two others,
was lowered down the eleven hui
dred foot sloUs 10 the sixth
level There be met men from
the sixth level south who We're
doing an they could % rescue men from
tbe north end. Others went down from
tbe surface aud found the body of the
first mao in the gauCway, about one
thousand feet in front OF tbe slope. The
body was that of John o Anderson,
and was pulled 20 the top oi ,he slope.
AT Que place eight men were lying
togetber and in another one maa was
f.uud under a mule, i've mules iu all
baiog dead. The men We're al. lying in
the middle OF the ganzway wiki their
faces i'm toe mud, as if lhey had tried
70 bury their heads completely and
tbus escape the deadly smoke and gas.
Astbe bodies began % arrive at the
,rrface OF the niue slope the exc te-
r7snt of the whole population became
.lrost uncomfortable.
Asp. m. the last Of the thirty-seven
boS.es was brought out, aud then The
Te5,le began 20 quiet down. Many Of
tbem vera ompie,ely Frustrated with
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