The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-06-29

CT a fal or = squeeze Every f1.FlS NAs
working nicely and tie men expseEed 10
be CUT OF the mine within an hour
The noise OK the fall" says the oos,
was Ike hundred Cannon and the force
of Il blew me fully twenty-five feet rS
buried against the side ot the slope
piecs of rock hit me on the back of re
head. the wound commenced 70 bleed ana
then I tainted"
Richards and GIL. who were on their
way out after timber. concur with s1era-
dan that the coaea<s8on Was terrific Tney
were knocked OF their fee. and bangst
against some brattice work They csnnos
conceive the possibility OF anyeody beng
81 the Ereck and escape with his lfe- sa-
per!nren6ent Law says. Nobody regrets
this dreadful occurrence mere than 90.
IL is too early yet 20 give any reason as 10
the cause OF the accident. out ] car as
sure you that II ! had thought there WAS
AIRY Danger IN The work undertaken BY the
men, not q single one OF the men would
have been allowed 70 enter the nine /
don't care for the damage 20 the mine. IL
Is the loss CT life that gives me so much
sorrow"
The report that TWO bodies had been
found in the mine was nroyed tonight 70
be premature Up 20 3 O'Clock tonight no
bodies had been found. At that hour all
hope OF finding any person alive had been
lost. TEe supertnten1ent Of the LehiEa
Coal Company. who is an authority. said
IL viii be ten DAYS before the bodies are
reached. During the late hours OF the
Afternoon the searchers made but little
progress. because the part Of the slope
upon which their energies were bent was
working" TIE heayisst timaers were ike
straws under the heavy pressure from
above
The breaker OF the Twin shaft burned
down three years ago. There were ever
loo men in the mine at the time. but all ss-
capped through second opening. The first
great disaster In the anthracite region WAS
in September. lsss, when 10 men perished
In the AvondaIe mike, this county. The
breaker over the mine caught fire and ali
the men fn the mine were sufocated. This
great catastrophe caused the legislature TO
pass a law compelling mines to have two
openings But when cavern occurs In
mine and the men are surrounded on ev-
cry side by debris, il makes little differ
ence how many openings there may be.
At II O'Clock tonight the situation al the
Inflated mine was unchanged. The res
cuers were hard al work. but making lit
tie progress Superintendent Miller has
given orders that the rescuers must pro-
ceed with great caution now as the rock
they are Iaboring under ia working
more or less. There is danger that in hur-
Tylng the work other lives may be lost
A conference Of prominent mine super
intendents from all over the Wyoming VAL
ley vas held tonight and the situation was
discussed. The conclusion was reached
that 10 prevent further loss OF life the
work OF rescue must proceed with care.
II Is also the unanimous belief Of the SUI
perintendents that the mine ia now a tomb
and that IL Will be some days before the
rescuers reach the bodies.
Revised List of Victims.
Wfkesbarre, June 29-The following re-
yised list Of the men entombed In the mine
has Just been obtained: NJ j. Lanlgan.
inside superintendent, married. 20 years
old; " j. Lynott. inside foreman. mar
ried, aged 43; Alexander Mccormick. AGED
fZ: Thomas Murphy. driver boss. aged IS:
James Costello. married. -: Michael
Caughan, single. "a: John Hart, single, %.
James Daley. single, -: Michael Cornell.
single. 81; Daniel Ward single, 20;
Frank Kehoe. single. IS; John Ke-
hoe, married, 90 James Mcdonald.
married. 2s: Ed Delaney. married. IS;
Cornelius Mcclure. married. "a: James
Golden. married. a. Michael O'Brien. mar
RED, a.; Michael Hughes. married. Is. Ed
kildsy. married. IS: James Burke sim
gle, 81. Patrick Raune married 40. Thorn
as Tenpenny. fire boss married. "a:
Thomas Gaffney: John Gaffnev. married,
y: Thomas Doing. single. 30: Anthony
Kane. single. 81: J. ". Murphy. single eS:
James Wall. married. f5: Owen Lee. sin
gle, .: Anthony Gordon. married. 2s:
Thomas Wall. single. IS: Dominick O'Mal-
ley. single, 80: Peter Martin. married. s5.
Michael Ford. married. 80: Timothy Dur
brick, single. IS; Thomas CariEn. married.
=; Patrick Gibbons, John O'Berle mar
rfed. 3. Peter Joyce. married &: Daniel
Gavin. single; John Gnl. single. s5: pat
rick Boland: Anthony Jordan. married:
John Holster, married, Hungarian: Jo-
seph Duvenda, married. Hungarian: Tony
Tollaski, married. Hungarian: Pete savos-
ki. married; Andrew AIovinski married.
Hun; Tnanian Maskovitz. married; John
Csdamlski single. about twenty other
Hungarians and Poles whose names could
not be learned.
At 1925 there was another fall IN tn.
slope. II drove the rescuers back. The
twenty feet OF good they had gained since
S o'clock was thereby lost
Al this time the crowd at the mouth of
the shaft has dwtndled 70 about $50.