The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-21
COMPLETE LIS oF THE DEAD,
But Three or Four Other Men Are
StIii Missing.


little village but what has a pitiful
tale of woe. Some lose father, others
a husband, and others a son. Twenty
five dead men, side by side, in the en-
gine room. eight others below at the
bottom of the shaft ready to be
brought to the top, and ten others
missing was the sitiIa ton at Cumnock
mines this morning at sunrise.
This morning a Very touching scene
was enacted near the mouth of the
shaft. Two strong smen were weeping
in each others arms. one the father
and one the brother of two young men
who had Just been brought up from the
bottom, dead. For hours an old
white haired colored woman walked
about the mouth of the shaft, wiring
ing her hands, her eyes wet with tears.
She had fostt sons by the explosion.
. Collins cans be seen in nearly all of
the homes near the mines; a wagon
loadsof collins has been frequent sight.
The work of rescue has been some
what slow from the want of volunteers
to go down in the mine after the
bodies and most of the work has been
done by few willing ones. The bod
les are very little bruised, and but few
are burned. Up to / o'clock this after
noon il wassclaimed that the, explosion
was caused by dynamite which was
stored in the slope, but the dynamite
has been found which leaves no doubt
of the accident arising from fire damp.
The correct list of the dead is as fol-
lows
WHITES.
FRANK MCKAY, Irish, 80 years old,
leaves wife and one child, from Raemy,
Pa
THOMAS TUBBY, American, 81, sin
gle. from Raemy. Pa.
MIKE BENTLY, English, 45, wife
and two children, from Pennsylvania.
NED BENTLY. English. 20 years.
single, from Pennsylvania.
NJ. II. QUINN, Irish, 40, wife, from
Ramey, Pa.
WILL MCDONALD, American, %,
from Ironton, Ohio.
COUNTS POE, %, wife, Cumnock.
HENRY MORRIS, So, wife and six
children. Cumnock.
DAN NORRIS. 16, single, Cnmnock.
JOHN MONROE, Is, single, Cum
nock.t
LrCIAN HOLLAND 70, wife and
one child, Cumnock
WRIGHT Tyson, IS, wife, Cum
mock.
JOHN yooLBY. a late arrival, reei-
dence unknown. tE#
CHARLIE POE, 70. wife and two
children. Cumnock. .e~ss
JOHN 'oDRY. 80, wife and three chill
dren. .Cumnock.
N L fcla
Langdondafe. Pa.
ATLAS ANDREWS. wife and three
children. Cumnock.
JESSE LAMBERT, wife and six chill
dren, Gulf.
JOHN SHAMBERGER, German, wife,
from Trenton, Ohio.
JOE SCHMIDT. German, late arrival
from New York.
JOHN GUNTER, wife and one child,
Cumnock.
CHARLES sTARKE, German, New
York.
BENNETT. Polander, new arrival
and thought not to be his real name,
New York.
ALEXANDER, Polander, new ar
rival, New York.
COL0RED
The colored victims of the disaster
are as follows:
WALTER HORTON, aged 30, wife,
Cumnock.
CASTOR LAMBERT, wife and two
children, Cumnock.
& JACK .MeIyER, 20, single, Cumnock.
WILL JENKINS, "a, wife and one
child, Cuninock.s 49,
JIM REEVES, 49, sipgle, Cumnock.
LOVE sCHENCIS, ~ single, from
Concord. n. G.
LEWIS WHITE, 80, wife, Cumnock.
CLAY. HARRIS. 81. wife and four
children. Rowan county,
ARTHUR WHITE, 28, wife and two
children, Cumnock. F
JOHN NORWOOD, 80, single. Nor
wood, NC &sT
JOE THOMPSON, 50, wife and nine
children. Cumnock.
FISHER REEVES, 27, wife and one
child, Cumnock
WILL BALDWIN, -, single, Cum
mock.
JOE WHITE, %, wife, Gu1nnock.
There is still two or three men
missing, but 50 far have not been
found. This makes tile death list 43.
ne seriously sWoNHded are:
JOE MILLS, badly burned in face
and hands. ~.
WILL SMITH bUr1ted in face and.
hands and head gaslfed
The name of ti4e others who were
injured aret N-s
JACK JOHNSON, @{
JOHN WILLIAMS,
DEMPSEY HALSEY (colored.)
The Cumnock mines have always
been difficult to work because of fire
damp gas.
This is the third fatal accident which
has occurred in these mines from fire
damp. Once during the late war there
was an explosion by which thirteen
men lost their lives and again some
time in the 70s seven men were killed
by a similar accident.
The coroner of Chatham county
waived holding inquest over the bodies
recovered from the mines, giving as
his reason that it would incur great
and useless expense on the county. -.
b. HAWKINS. 8