The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-02-20
Y1rTY.sEyEN BODIES
Remain in the Vulcan Mine-ovsr Finy
MInern Perished by the EIplosion.

NEW CASTLE, Colo, Feb. ITO
day when the work OF rescue was tenn
porarily suspended, the Vulcan mine
had. al told. yielded UP four OF It's dead;
that was the work OF exactly twenty
four hours. How many more bodies re-
main within is still somewhat a matter
of conjecture. although the most relia-
BILE figures make tho number forty
seven.
Work was temporarily stopped about
noon to-day for the purpose OF toodinS
the slope and chambers Of the mine
with air and OF driving out II possible
gases and menaclng dangers that re.
mained after yesterdays explosion. All
night shifts Of men, working twenty
four hours each. were kept employed
putting up m Dir fan In the place OF the
two Destroyed. simultaneously crews
OF five to ten men were sent into the
death trap by way Of the main slope en-
trance and the air passage to work their
way II possible to where the bodies or
the dead men lay. This work was &C
complished by the most imminent peril
owing TO the black damp with which
the mine was filled. Fully twenty men
were carried into the outer air over
come by the gases. The working being
thus impeded, progress was slow ana
the results discouragtngly small.
AT noon to-day 900 feet OF the main
slope had been penetrated and three
bodies brought out. The first body
found was TINT OF Able Dorc. boy.
The sccund was that Of Joe Dore,
brother OF Able and the third was that
OF Frank ComIlSitczkS a carpenter and
grought out at 2:30 this a. m. AS the
work goes on II becomes certain that
the mine has not caught fire.
Rev. T.. n Mallory, OF the Glenwood
Springs Methodist church, has started
q fund for the relief OF the dead mems
families.
All last night a throng OF weeping
women and children stood about the
mouth OF tfle Vulcan mine while
hardy band OF reScuers were working
earnestly and systematically IN the
hope OF soon being able TO reach the
sixty or seventy entombed miners, oil
OF whom, Il Is conceded. must now be
dead.
The men succeeded in entering the
shaft about 200 feet, but were driven
out by the black damp and gas, which
was continually belched forth.
John Evans. who went 800 feet down
the main slope, reported the tmoeFs IN
good shape and that the mine was
only wrecked at the mouth Of the slope
where the gas had on opportunity 10
expand. The work OF puTttng a new
fan in place 50 as to supply fresh air
and make It possible for rescuers 10
penetrate the mine 10 the levels where
the men were working when the explo-
sion occurred was prosecuted through
out the night with all possible speed
and the fan was IN operation early this
morning.
Opinions differ as TO the cause OF the
EXPLOSION, Some cay Il was caused by
windy shot, others believe there was an
explosion OF coal dust, asserting t1at
the company had been negligent In not
having the rDoms sprinkled as otten as
the law requires. X is impossible as
yet 10 give full and accurate hst OF
SC1e killed as the list OF those on duty
at the time OF the explosion Is sup
posed to be in the pocket OF pit boss
james Harrison, who lies at the bottom
OF the slope, prooaoly dead.