The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-06-14
SIXTEEN KILLED IN MONDAYS
EXPLOSION.
BODIES STILL IN MINES
Only Remains Of Ten Who Per
ished Have So Far Been
Recovered.

Port Royal, Pa, June 11.-As a re.
suit Of Monday nights explosion in
the Port Royal mine Of the Pittsburg
Coal company is are dead, seven in
jured and thousands Of dollars worth
Of property destroyed.
An official list Of dead and injured
al made public by the coal com
pany's officials tonight. The list Of
dead is as follows:
WILLIAM McCUNE, superintendent
Of company's mines along Baltimore
& Ohio railroad. Body found lying in
the passageway about 1000 feet from
the shaft. Leaves a wife, three SONS
and a daughter.
TAYLOR GUNSALAUs, sR-, load
er, leaves a widow and seven chill
dren.
FRITZ KRUGER.
Those still entombed in the mine
and known for q certainty to be dead
are:
WILLIAM F. ALLISON, assistant
superintendent Of mines. Leaves a
wife and five children.
DENNIS WARDLEY, foreman Of
mine No. l.. Leaves wife and four
children.
JOHN KECK, foreman Darres mine.
Leaves wife and seven children.
MICHAEL ROY, foreman Euclid
mine. Leaves wife and small boy.
BERNARD JAIL. Leaves wife and
two children.
TAYLOR GNsALAUs, JR. Leaves
wife.
JERRY DAILY. Leaves wife and
several children.
JOHN PEOPLES. Leaves wife.
DAVID JAMES. Leaves wife.
JOHN CANTO, machine boss.
SAMUEL HADLEY, assistant fore
man. Leaves wife and two children.
PETER MARCHANDO, boss driver,
Leaves wife and child.
JOHN STICKLE, pipeman. Leaves
wife and three children.
The injured are-Harry Beveridge,
- Smith, Robert Mckinney, Dit
boss; Charles McCatfery. s~uperinten-
dent SOaper mine; Clarence Settle,
Daniel Mccullough, Thomas F1eason.
All are badly burned and bruised.
Harry Beveridge and Smith cannot
live. Twelve Of the dead were men
who went into the mine az rescuers.
What caused the explosion and loss
OF life is something the mine inspec-
tors Of the Ninth and Eleventh dis
tricts spent the greater part of today
trying to ind out. The officials OF
the coal company declare that none
but regulation mine lamps were used.
while others are Of the opinion that
q Of the men %carelessly opened one
Of the lamps and caused ono of the |
greatest mine disasters in the history
OF Moreland county.
It is said that for more than two
weeks men have been at work in mine
No. 2, where the first explosion &C.
CURED, erecting cribbing between en-
try No. 20 and entry No. 81. Much
Of the cribbing had been placed in DO
sition and it was while doing this
work that Peoples, Davenport, Sickle
and DAILY met their death. The ex-
plos10n was q terrific M and for fully |
three hours after it happened no one
entered the shaft.
The situation today again reached
. climax when Mine Inspector Ber-
nard Callahan, accompanied by sever
al men, descended the shaft and start
ed upon an investigating tour Of the
mine. The men gave the signal to
be lowered at 1904 and about an hour
afterward a terrific report was heard.
It was another explosion and grave
fears were entertained as to the safe
lty OF the party. The story If the men
was told by Callahan. He said:
Our escape was miraculous. II
have never been in q mine wrecked
like this one. I am nearly exhausted
from swallowing fire damp. Ny
lungs are like Goals o. fire. There IL
no hope Of saving anyone In the mine
and 1t may be q year before the bodies
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