The Saint Paul globe., 1899-12-24

Back OF the fateful pit rose a solid mass
Oh mountainous darkness. In front but
far across the railroad tracks. were the
hlckerlng lights of the homes of the min
ers- AT one side Of the mouth of the
smart some huge Jumps of coal mada a
blazing camp fire. and around were seat.
ed a score of workers. Many were sDeeeb-
less over the calamity while others talk
ed In whispers, and seemed to accent tha
doon meted out to their companions with
all the stolcIsm of men engaged in dam
gerous employment On the board plat
ioFin that covered the shaft griny min
ers k1eft to hear the faintest call for suo-
cor from the depths
From an upper window In a house ba-
yond the tracks could be seen a mourn
ing woman, her bowed head visible in
Ilght from a rude lamp It was Mrs
Meese, whose little son was living In
deaths embrace in the quickly tnpro-
Nlseq morgue, and whose husband, Sam
uel rMeese, was one of the seven bodies
waiting the transfer to the surface. she
was watching for the men to bring I'D
her husbands body 90
Beneath the tramway of the tipple
weeping women found shelter from the
mePcfless rain. ShawIs about their heads
gave them scant projection from the cold.
but their blanGhed faces showed the in
tense heart pain they endured There was
no hope. and yet each l1urtured that hope
.fhat lasts until the dead lies before the
meurner.- Each had husband father or
brother I'M death far down in the mine,
and yet each tried to cling to some i'm
possible remnant of hope. =
LIST OF DEAD.
No complete list of the dead can be
compiled tonight. The managers of the
mine have the pay. roll, but it has been
Impossible for them to discover all the
survivors. But there is, general agreement
that from thirty to thfrty-fve men are
ertombed. About ope=haf are Americans
and the balance are Hungarians or Slavs.
The@Hst as obtained is:
and sister.
10, JOSEPH T :BgTsIHME. forty. wife and
PETER oRIs. thirty-six,. married, has
FIVE children.
ALBERT MEEsE, aged fourteen, died
soon after taken out
SAMUEL MEEsE. his father. pit boss.
dren.
JAMES THOMAS, married.
Among the fourteen brought out bx
the rescuers on their first trip were: Jo-
seph Meese, driver. badly burned on face
and body; Harry Atwood, badly burned.
Thomas Radcliffe, trapper boy, was at
the shaft. He started to go down in the
mine with the rest al the morning de-
SNOiitg Oul Ills ldlu6T SdlQ IAer6 were
no cars. He went home. His father Is
among the lost.
Mrs. q. L. Harrington, wife of the
check Weighman, did heroic service.
Carl Hobidsd was hauled up from the
bottom, the rope being tied about his
wrists. In twenty minutes after rescue
he appeared on the scene calm as ever.
Soon after the extent of the accident
became known undertakers We're sum
moned from brownsville. new building.
Just back of the main shaft, intended for
a blacksmithshop, was converted into a
morgue. Here pine boards. on trestles.
were shaped into receptacIes for the dead.
an is in readiness for the victims when
brought to the surface
There was an explosion in Brazeneu
mine last July 1t adjoins the Umpire
mtEe. In which eight men were killed last
year. the day before Christmas. by
similar explosion. Henry Hagar, one of
the men entombed in Brazenell. IS the
uncle of Henry Hasar, who was killed In
the Umpire mine explosion.
A. S. Erazenell, manager of the Stock
dale company, says that the mine was en-
tirefy free from gas yesterday. and that
the quantity found this morning was not
considered dangerous