The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-09-09
STILL BURNING.
Tho Names OF the Missing Men In
the OsceoIa Nine.
MEN were IN NO HURRY TO ESCAPE
And They Never Iseaohod tho Surface.
The Work of Recovering tho Bodies
Caunot bo Rsgun uatll the Firo Has
Burned out-NIost of tho Missing
Mon Overcome by smoke and Gases.

HouduroN, MIcH., Sept. s,-Huge yol'
umes Of smoke are still issuing forth
from the mouths Of shafts Nos. l, and
5, which shows that the awfu! fire which
started in the Oseeola copper mine
shortly before noon Saturday is still
raging tlercely, and the bodies Of the
thirty miners eutombed are still lying
somewhere below the surface, withOuts .
doubt dead, sgGacRsed by smoke and
gas. Tho following men are among the
missing: Trembath, mine bOasj Richard
Bcket, Michael johnson, Richard
Grenuell, Michael Schultz, John Matzsn,
William Bryant, Francis Lander, Alex.
ander Daniall, John Cudlip, Thomas
Curtis, Robert Johns, Potter Martin,
Joseph saghte, James Harrington, Will
lam Donald, Barney Elgore, Antoine
Scezweak, all miners; Peter stangaEd
aud Walter Dohle, drill boys; Frederick
Peardon, Isaac Harlow, Mike Yoke,
Isaac AIatuson. Andrew Rossawlck.
James Wine, NJ. Cook and Samuel
Williams.
Five Poles, whose namel are unknown
at the headquarters, arc ulso among
the missing. Capt, p. Richards, with q
gang OF seven mon, went down shaft
No. 8 and went about seven hundred
feet toward No. shaft whom they had
to turn and ilee for their lives on &C.
count OF the smoke andga3. Some Of
these men were very nearly overcome,
only reaching tue surface in time TO
save their lives. 1t is learned that the
place whore the dre caught was the
worst place that 1t could have caught in
tho whole mine and the only place in
tho mine where fire OF any extent
could have caught. Many OF the men
that were working several levels below
tho 9th, which place tue fire caught,
were seen as far up as the 18th level,
working their way up. Several Of tho
men who escaped, claimed to have
passed othors on tue ladders that were
unable to proceed further on account oil
being overcome with smoke aud gas.
At tho timo tho alarm was sounded
over 200 werO under ground, aud all
could have escaped had they used the
proper prsCAution. Several miners, in
their flight, passed . group OF seven or
eight who had stopped TO rest and were
smoking their pipes. They seemed to
be in no hurry or thinking OF danger.
When told TO hurry TO the surface, they
remarked that they had plenty OF time,
aud not one OF them reached the sur
face. The skips were kept running up
and down all day Saturday, in order TO
giyo any Of the entombed miners a
chance to escape II they could reach the
skip alive, but mono came up.
Another attempt will be made to
reach the men tomorrow morning,
There 10 no danger OF the bodies being
burned, as it il generally thought that
the men escaped from the burning
shalt TO some OF the drifts leading to
other shafts and were overcome by gas
and smoke before thny could reach
place of safety. This being the case the
bodies will be recovered as soon as tho
fire is gotten under control aud the
gases leave she mine. Tho shaft has
been surrounded all day by thousands
Of people. all hoping that somo sign OF
word could be gotten from the men, but
all have now returned to their homes
fearing the worst. All hopo has been
given up by the officials oil ever reIcu.
ing any OF the men alive.
Captain Prichards, one OF the old'
est and most experienced mining
captains in the copper country, says
that he is positive that the Osceola mine
fire Ia OF inccndiary origin. He does
not think that lire could have origi-
mated where it did unless 1t had been
Yilfully lighted.