The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-07-15
DISASTER AT YOUNGSTOWN
Resculng Parties Making Their Way
Into the Depths Of the Cam.
bria Mine.
FIGHTING DEADLY GAsts AT livery STEP
Until They Reach the "Klondike," The Scene
OF Tho Terrific Explosion, the Number
Who Have Persisted Will Not
b.. knoWo.
(By the Associated Press.)

By the Associated Press.)
JohnstoWn, Pa, July 10.-Johnstown
has again been visited by an appalling
disaster.
1t is only less frightful than the aw-
ful calamity of May 81, 1889 in cost of
life, and in it's terrible consequences it
has brought the shadow Of sorrow in
hundreds of homes made desolate bv a
mime explosion which took place in the
tatnbrlt Steel Company rolling mill
mine, under Westmount Hill at 1880
o'clock this afternoon.
How many are dead it may take sew
eral days to fully determine. but that it
Is q long and shocking list is certain.
II may reach 200 or more men.
Ii was nearly an hour after the ex-
plosion before any general knovledpe Of
What had happened got abroad Men
VINO came from the mines. escapine with
their lives, told the terrible news and
soon 1t spread like wildfre all over tho
Guy. In scores of homes there were the
most pathetic scenes. Mothers vjvee
dau9hters, sons and relatives We're fran
TIC with grief. Hundreds rushed tn tho
point and with bleeding hearts awaited
news that did not come from the i'll
fated mine.
AL the opening across the river from
the point, the Cambria Iron Comnanv
bolce' with several assistants. stood
5udrd' permitting no one to enter the
Hhihe' from which %noXious gases We're
coming. 1t was nearly 4 o'clock whom
an nope OF sending rescue parties from
IL Nestmont opening was abandoned.
i"o men who have escaped from tho
haihe-Etlchard Bennett and John Movers
went pack miles to see what assistance
cooid De rendered, but the friehtful dam,
"ioNe thehl back and they fell PROSTATE
ana alter a desperate struggle reached
III outside. The doctors gave the mon
and after working with Them
nan an hour restored them, Tho his
soiy Oh the situation in the mine mado
II eleaf that the rescue could not nrocood
. the Westmont opening and then
NASTY preparations were made to he.;,
ehat sad mission at the Mill Crook On
trance Soon after the news Of tho ox
ploSioh reached the Cambria of7ci.,s
MINING Engineer Marshal c. Moore .na
'"eol MS assistants, al. c.. Prosser
hiaue an attempt to enter the mina Tbor
were followed by Mine Superintendent
george I. Robinson, but tho ao.a1r
sd9eS stopped their progress and tboy
"e'e compelled to return to tho surface
WIN foreman Harry Rodgers. his as
sis'aht, William Blanch. and fire hoseos
5ohh whitney, John Retallick and rohn
ihofhas, were overcome by the gases and
~ IS reared they persisted in a heroic
elort to rescue the miners. CON af
marry Rodgers then tried to roach hie
'a'her' but he was quickly overcome hy
~ uNadly gas and was carried ont nm
conscious. 0' III
Nllilain stibich spent several hours at
the Mill Creek opening. He said tb.+
he believed as many as $50 men wore
still in the mine. In his oninion fran,
all he could CLEAN. not to excood 7zo
men had come out.
"hcIi the news of the explosion
reached the surface, Marsha, r. Noora
INNING engineer, and one of his ass,st-
"h'S' y. u. Prosper, promptly made an
d'teilit to enter tho mine. Thav wore
ioilo"ed In a short time by Mine Super-
lhtendent George T. Robinson. Aftar
much trouble they reached one of tho
telephonos located in the mine and COM
munlcated with the Gambia general If
rs Ihey were unable to give anv
details of the effects of the explosion hut
feared the loss of life would bo LARGO
Inc damage to the mine must be So
IlouS- 1holr progress was stoned nv tho
deadly gases, and they stated that an at
Tempt would at once be made to reach
me scene of the accident. which is known
as the "Klondike," III the miners mar
lance. No entrance to the working nor
tl01 Oh the mine can ha affected f,au,
the main entry. Many of the miners es-
capped at Mill Creek, a shaft roocbin,
the mine near the power touse at that
point.
About a score Of American miners who
were at work in the Klondike district
IotIced the presence of the first damn i'm
lhelr apartment soon after the explosion
occuffei and started at once for the main
entrance. Ihey were almost overcome
by the deadly gas but reached the out
size world in safety. One of the men who
got out safely said it is not known what
caused the explosion and that it will
probably never be known, as he believed
none Of the men at work in the Klon-
dixie district can be saved. He also said
that only a few days ago the officials is
sued an order to the employees in the
mine not to play with the gas and the
very next day d young Hungarian was
seen pushing his naked lamp along the
roof of the mine in search of it.
Engineer Moore and George L. Rob
in6on, superintendent. are the
head of a rescuing party from the
Franklin slope, and Conemaugh mine.
They are slowly working their way to-
ward the scene of the explosion but must