The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-05-29
6 OR 7 LAMPS MISSING
| Bodies of Eight Whites and Twelve
Negroes Recovered.
CORPSE or SIM MCINTYRE FOUND
jim seym3ur's Story of the Explosion. Victor
Rudd, of Penn, the First Man TO
Descend Into the Mine After
the Disaster.
(Suecial to News and Observer

(Suecial to News and Observero
Sanford. y. c.. May 23.-The latest
news received here from CumnocN
today is that there are SIX or seven
miners lamps missing. AMI it IS feared
that more men are in the mine
Fnrther Investigation at Cumnock
mines this morning develops the
fact that there We're killed in the eN-
plosion yesterday afternoon only
EIGHT white men. and thirteen ne
groes.
Nj the bodies have been recovered
except that Of Sim Mcintyre. a ne
GRO. which so far has not been found.
jim Seymour. a mulatto. was brought
up last night in an exhausted cOndI
ton. and it was With the utmost DIFF
ficulty that he was resuScitated This
morning he StateS that he was in the
east heading and heard q report which
he took to be the explosion of 4 dN-
Mantle cartridge which was fired in
driving through rock and the next
instant the fire damp exploded. lie
remembers nothing from this time
until today.
The bodies Of John Connolly, mine
superintendent. and jim Mccarthy
were found within fifty feet Of each
other. and were badly bruised by the
force Of the explosion. Connolly came
to Cumnock in February 1898, from
the Pennsylvania coal fields. where
he had worked his way up from the
position Of a mule driver to mine
foreman. After working in the mines
all day, he OOk a course in mine en-
oineerin2 at hight. and was consider
ed an expert in his vocation. He was
supposed to have been making q sur
vey in the east heading for new pen
inos when death overlook him. He
leaves q wife and three small children.
His remains viii be taken With those
OF Mccarthy to Taylor, Pa. for inter
ment.
FIRST TO THE RESCUE.
The first MAJ TO 90 down the shaft
TO rescue the bodies Of the victims
was Victor Rudd. a white miner from
Pennsylvania. Owing to the panic
that ensued the work of looking for
the bodies did not begin until about
an hour and a half after the explos-
ion.
The case Of young William Tysor
is particularly pathetic. He was Il
bright. manly fellow. of very good
education. and stated to his father
only last week that he was fearful
OF ga III the mine and that he would
give up the work Saturday next. the
pay day of the mines par He is
the only son Of Mr.. Jordan Tysor. Of
Chatham county.
In a small wash house near the
Nj nc Dan ia
bodies CT twelve negro miners. and
n eight whites were placed in the
slope engine house. \ gruesome
spectacle-one the horror of which
has never been eQualed in his State.
except during the explosion of 1896
when f~Orty-One men were killed.
CAUSE OF EXPLOSION UNKNOWN
As to the cause there are many
theories. but the real cause can never
be known. Some hold to the oDin-
ION that the ire damp was ignited
by a safety lamp. the ga,ze Of which
had been broken: others claim that
the explosion Of dynamite in open-
ing me new works caused the trouble.
\ HEARTRENDING SCENE.
Too much cannot be said in praise
OF n men Who went into he mine
to rescue the bodies. The scene al
me mouth OF the shaft was heart
fendInS. Wives, mothers and chill
dren OF the dead miners were vaitino
all the evening, and it was NOT until
nearly midnight when all save one
mad been carried to the top. There
were q number Of men workinD in
the west heading at the time. but all
escaped Unhurt.
FROM what could be gathered if K
aile intention OF the management IN
1url'ish decent burial for all the men. |
, '".ef'akers from Sanford and neigh
iihS towns are on the scene. and
~ tonight it is expected that every
thing necessary to interment Iii
nave been completed.
me MINES people were exceedinolv
courteous III regard TO giving infor-
ii"'ioh-a contrast decidedly TO the
iidilher IN which newspaper men
were treated in 1896 at thar niece
Mrs Connolly, with the remains Of
htr husband and Of jim NcCortb,-
VIII ave for TAYLOR tomorrow ia
Masonic lodge Of Gulf. of which NJ
N~ohhoilN was q member. actinn nc es-
cort to the depot. =
ms property has been unfortun.+
'er various vicissitudes in the wav |
- recelverships explosions and fires
- iao gotten in shape to be develon,
II inns accident is a hard blow
mie'' croWds of people from neiob-
'S towns have been visitino tbe
81 III TACT. as soon as the report
current that an explosion had
occurred a steady stream Of veh;nias
began to pom in.
THE MINE NOT.INsPEcrED