Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-12-26
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Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 2.
thirty men We're entombed3
the cual mines OF the Dayton
TINS morning by an explosion
damp. There is not the slightest
tnat n OF the thirty men is a.
Inc Following Is a partial list of 1.
men VINO are entombed: Tom Haw
kins, single, John Leech, single; Lon
ferguson, married; Robert Hamilton,
single; jack investor, married; Will
am henderson, married; John West
HELD, married; John MANS, married:
D.. ii. Bennett, married; William Alex
ander, married, w. J.. Miller, single;
w. s. Davis, married; Theodore Lane,
married; Laney, Walker, single; g.
Washburn, single; Cyrus Alexander.
single; John Abel, q boy; Will Brother
ton, single; Jim Johnson, single; Elder
Morgan, single; VIII Roddy, a boy.
There are seven of eight more in
the mine whose names could not be
learned. A number of attempts were
made TO reach the men. but in each
case h rescuers were driven back by
| foul air.
The explosion was succeeded by a
terrific crash, which indicated that
the roof of the passage through which
they had entered, had fallen in. No
avenue of escape was left and there
is no possibility that any of the men
will be found alive. The mine is the
property of the Dayton Coal and Iron
company, three miles from the town OF
Dayton, and reached by a spur track.
The men, both white and black. In
Guiding several boys, entered the mine
to go TO work at Z O'Clock this morn
Ing, but nothing of the awful catastro-
phe was known until IL o'clock, when
the drivers at Entry No. 10, finding
their way blocked by a solid wall OF
coal and slate. The Nelson mine has
been worked for twelve years or more,
anu the entry where the unfortunate
miners are entombed ran back moro
than two miles from the mouth of tho
mine. The mine is OF the kind COM
mon in Southern coal fields, known as
drift or level veined mine, worked In
the direction of the vein, and straight
into the mountain, but before the en-
try is reached a long slope extends to
the level several hundred yards up
from the foot of he slope, where tram
ears, drawn by mules connect with the
outside by a cable which hauls the
coal up with remarkable raDidity.
Rescuing parties have been trying to
reach the imprisoned miners, but 1t Is
| probable they viii be several days
forcing an opening through the wall
of fallen roofing. which must be made
safe as they proceed. The foul air
quickly exhausts the workers, who are
relieved by fresh hands. The work
will continue day and night till the
bodies are recovered. At the mouth OF
the drift hundreds of women and
children soon gathered, and the pic
ture of their grief and despair is heart
rending.
of Bodies.
Raleigh. n. c., Dec. 22.--Tlie Associ-
ated Press correspondent has just re-
turned from Cumnock, the scene OF
the explosion in the Egypt coal mines.
All the bodies discovered were
brought the TIE bottom of the main
shaft, but none were brought to the
surface until this morning, when "a
bodies were brought to the surface
by the Eight bodies were
found afterward and are lying at the
foot OF the shaft. Two more bodies
have been discovered. but are almost
completely buried. They are now be-
ing dug out. The body Of the fore
man of the dynamite room has not yes
been found. Reports as to the amount
Of dynamite In the mine conflict. Soma
OF the miners say there were FIVE
| cases, or $50 pounds, while the super
| intendent thinks there were only 80
pounds. The theory Of the cause OF
| the explosion generally held is that
| the first explosion was coal gas, that
| then the dynamite exploded. and after
| this came the sitting "after damp"
| that suffocated all who remained
alive. 49,.