The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-30
ELEVEN MEN WERE KILLED
TERRIBLE DISASTER IN THE FATAL
 TILLF FOSTER MINE.

The Northwest Wall Fell in WhiIo Thirty
 Men Were at Work There-Five Italians
 pened Years Ago.
 Brewsters, N. T., Nov. 29.-Nineteen years ago fifty tons of rock fell into the open pit at the Tilly Foster mine, killing six miners and manning three to-day the hanging walls, which rise 400 feet above the working level of the pit, have undergone daily inspection. If this inspection revealed any crevlce or other sign of danger work below was abandoned until the threatening overhanging had been dislodged, The extreme caution exercised has prevent ed many accidetns.
 This afternoon about thirty men were at work on the 400 foot level breaking ore and loading cars sent down by a cable. About 3:S0 the entire northwest wall apparently containing over 100 tons of rock, fell into the pit, killing not less than eleven men and inflicting serious injury upon nine others. Will liam Aspell and four others ran and es- capped. Five Italians also got out aive. The cable and it's car was not injured. | Aspell and his companions as soon as the boulders stopped rolling down the | slope looked over the debris and saw | Patrick H. Murtha struggling to get up. He was pinned fast by rock. They assisted him. The cable car | brought down three Italians, who ren- | dered further assistance. Murtha was placed on the car, hoisted to the sur | face and taken home, where he died thirty minutes later. Just as the res cuing car started on the return trip more rock fell, and it Is reported that one of the three Italians mentioned above was killed.
 The second downward trip brought Patrick H. Kelley and James McGAnn. | They organized the miners, left the pit, secured tools and began to take out the bodies. Rocks were thrown off the bodies of Michael Cannon, | Thomas Dennis, John Pagan, an Aus trian known as No, 234, and two Ital- l ieiHS' TAil were uSdU dllu HUlIlUly mangled.
 1 Mark Critchley, who seemed to be suffering from a fracture of the spine probably fatal, was taken home, as also was Patrick Burns, who will recover.
 Superintendent Tompkins and Fore. man Lynch received the bodies upor l the surface and submitted them to the | view of Coroner Penny and jury Then the undertakers cared for them
 Darkness came on rapidly, and the | falling rocks continued to Ahreaten the rescuing party, when MT. Tompkins or. dered all hands to the surface. The l work of taking out the bodies will bt resumed tomorrow The bodies be- l lieved to be in the pit are those of James Fox, bachelor, better known as James Smith; James Clark, stringer who began work on November 1S ant four Italians.
 A great crowd fiocked to the scene oi | the disaster. As the car raised body | after body to the surface the walls and means of bereaved ones touched witt sorrow the hearts of hundreds of on lockers. At the time of the acciden Foreman Lynch was preparing to gt down to the working level. He saw tho rock begin to slide, but there was nt | means of giving warning. The heavy rains had opened cravices is man, places, and during the past two days more than 200 tons of rock had been dis lodged and thrown into the pit. Int northwest wall had been examined care |
 pected from that quarter.
 The mine Is owned by the Lackawan na Iron and Coal company of New York and Scranton, Pa. Clinton Steph ems is the contractor in charge, and thu men killed and injured were in hi employ.