The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-02-22

A Series of Disasters in Which
Many Lives Are Lost
All Of tho Fifty-Five Men In tho Vulcan
Mlnc Must he Dead -Four Bodies RE-
covered Fatal sIishaps nj Home
and Abroad.


New Castle, Col, Feb. 2o.--The num-
Der Of lives lost in the Vulcan mine ex-
plosion, according TO the coroner's list.
Is So. The officers OF the company have
checked up their lamp list, which shows
that 81 lamps vert issued that morn
ing 10 r1iners. SO that IL is probable that
Is will about cover the casualties of the
explosion.
Opinions differ as to the cause of the
explosion. Some say II was caused by
windy shot. others believe there was
an explosion OF coal dust. asserting
that the company had been negligent
in not having the rooms sprinkleo as
often as the law requires.
Four bodies were recovered up 10
three o'clock "Wednesday afternoon. tn
deadly gas still preventing thorough
search OF the long slope and the many
chambers.
or the four bodies discovered the
nrst was that of Ed Welsh. the trip
driver, who was caught in the drift
and his body so badly mangled as he
was projected out OF the slope with
such terrific force. The next body was
that of Abel Dore. found at $3.50 o'clock
Tuesday night. His brother Joe was
found at 1880 and French carpenter
named Frank Cimonsie, found at $3.50
a. m. These were found lying along
the slope about 500 feet in. and they
were badly maugled, as IL they. too
had been driven outward by the force
of the escaping gas generated in the ex-
plosion. The remaining bodies ure
around the bend OF the slope i'm the en-
try which forms the other Side OF an
inverted capital u. which is the shape
of the workings, nnd il is along this
other arm of the u that the chambers
were opened.
Lisbon. Feb. 2o.--Dnring the progress
of masked ball given by the Artists
club of Santaren, town so miles
from Lisbon, Wednesday night, at the
close of the carnival there fire broke OUT
In the building and the flames spread
with frightfui rapidity. A terrible
panic ensued and many OF the dancers
and several outsiders who went 90 their
rescue were either burned to death or
fatally crushed and trampled in the
rush to escape from the burning build
ing. Forty bodies have been recovered.
Wllk@sbarre. Pa, Feb. 2o.--Georgc
Maxwell, John Zerby and Samuel Max
well. employed at the works of the
Consumers Gas cotppany in this city.
were suffocated BY escaping gas
Wednesday afternoon. The men were
filling a purifying box and, negleciilG
to close the trap. flow of gas from a
l2-inch pipe was allowed 10 escape 'nt1
the room where they were at work.
They were not discovered until five
o'clock in the evening, when they were
found dead upon the floor. They we're
all married and leave large families.
johannesburg. Feb. 20. A large
quantity of dynamite exploded at
Niedendorp, n suburb of this city,
Wednesday evening, wrecling hundreds
of houses in the vicinity. All the win
dows i'm johannesburg were broken by
the conclusions. 1t is feared that great
loss of life was cnused by the explosion,
and the police and inhabitants are en-
gagged in the work of searching the
ruins OF the demolished buildings for
bodies of victims OF the disaster.
LATER-The dynamite which caused
the catastrophe filed eight trucks which
were being shunted. The explosion
caused an. immense hole 30 feet deep.
Every house within n radius of half a
mile of the explosion was RACED to the
ground. Forty dead, nearly all ter
ribly mutilated, have been taken from
the ruins. but the work of searching
the debris has scarcely begun. Two
hundred of the most severely injured
were admitted TO the hospital, where
several died.
Buffalo. n. y, Feb. 20.--By far the
worst snow and windstorm this winter
ragged in this city and throughout west,
crn New York all day and up 20 a little
after ten o'clock Wednesday night. The
railroads suffered severely and trains
were late. One serious wreck occurred
as a result of the storm Oh the Lehigh
Valley. An engine which had been sent
out to follow up sllowplow and assist
in the work of keeping the track clear
came into collision with another engine
and cahoose on similar mission. Two
men we're killed. They were William II
Davis and Henry Keurns.