Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-23
EIGHT KNOWN TO Be DEAD.
Reseuing Party Trying 10 Reach the IN
fortunate Men.
THE DEAD ARE HORRIBLY wASeltp.
Hundred. OF Women snd children sar.
round the Mouth Of the pit-A
iiesrtrendiuE scene.

Pit,sbnrg. Pa. Sept. 21.--An explosion
81 IRE damp occurred az the Umpire
coal mines hear Brownsville. Pa. at
$50 today. fry men are cuiombed.
Two have been taken uut dead.
The oSu'oslon wa caused hy an ac-
cumuhron Of gas
There were 100 men ut work at the
slime and all but about ATTY escaped
withoW Injury. Five men are believed
to have been Killed and large num-
bcr are stili ,uombcd.
i,csomng PARTIES are now trying to
reach the unfortunate men. HUNDREDS
~ women and children surround the
mouth q ne pit.
The milne la owned by the Umpire
Coal company.
nrownsylllo Pa, Sept. z3.-Fifty-four
mon we've cntombcd In the Umpire
mine OF snowden. Gould a Co. one mile
from Brownsvlilc. by an explosion Of
gar at o'clock this mprning. Two
dead bodies have 80 far been taken
out. The dead are:
James Hall.
John licnnctt.
Searching parties are making efforts
60 reach the ontombed miners. but their
progress ~ slow aud there II great
danger of another explosion, which
might bury them also under tons u
rock and earth,
Immediately following the explosion
of gas. there WAS a second explosion
of nro damp. There were 100 iIpn In
the mine at the time Of the explosion.
wurk having been begun Tot the day
short time previous. OF thrau -
were IN entries y, and 10.
-Four men. Jacobs, Davis, Walker
and Hungarian were near the mouth
of the entries. The others were Ear In.
When the cHnlUflon came these four
mrn made a rush for the main head
Ing which they succeeded IN reaching
though all were more or less injured.
They finally crawlcd out 30 the open
air. OF the D. men In entries and 10
these four Hrc tho only ones known TO
be- alive. They say there n no posHi-
BILE chance for the escape u the other
"a.
crowds soon gathered around the
mouth u the mine. Terrible scenes u
grief and horror were presented.
wives and children II the vntombed
men were frantic with grief and their
shrieks ana wallis were fearful 10 hear.
AZ one o'clock this afternoon four
more bodies were recovered aud Il was
feared that none OF those atill en-
tombed would be taken out alive, The
names Of the ave were
Harry Haror,
John Cartwright,
John ilniHtun,
william PrltchArd.
4 Hastings
1850 .. m.-Twenty-scven o. the en-
tombcd miners have Just returned to
town. They escaped by traversing a
mile and half underground passage.
station on the Red Stone branch OF the
Pennsylvania rniload. This point IL
four miles from the opening ~ tho
mine on the MonongnhelR river.
Another body. that Of Robert Davis.
has been recovered, making eight dead.
Nineteen miners are Htill unacoounted
for,
John Baker and his son George who
escaped the back way are terribly
burned about the face. but will likely
recover All who escaped are injured
or burned either slightly or seriously.
The dead are unrecognizable, being
burned and mutilnted. A partly Inn
provishcd morgue was arranged Tor az
the entrance 20 the mine. The coroner
was sent FOR and tho bodies viii DO
removed 20 the undertaking estab-
hshment VI brownsville where the in
quest VII be- held.
The explosion IN rnid 60 have been
caused by the lonHsnlnF of large
block 81 coal. which opened a pocket
Of gus.
The entry where the explosion occur
red II located about a mile and n half
from the pit mouth, Tho mine Ia an
old one and pretty we'll worked out.
A crowd N hundreds aro nurging
around the mine entrance imploring
news ~ their loved ones away hack
tvO miles and a half IN the bowels OF
the earth.
The hillside Ia black with people and
the excitement N terrible,
old miners who are present say there
n not one chance In n hundred Of
binding the missing men alive.
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