The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-11-02


his engine. The car, with its human
load Of ten souls. was dashed beyond the
Ross vein landing. LOO feet below the
surface. and into the sumD. 800 feet be-
low. where no human aid could reach
them.
The bodies have not been recovered,
but every man on the Inflated car has
been given up for lost
The dead are:
The Dead.
JOSEPH KARSCN.
JOHN COOK
JOSEPH NoFTCk
WILLIAM ASHTON.
FRANK SHY OK
JOSEPH GOSHEN.
JoHE lGNATOWlCZ-
HN EEAIPA
ALEX DOLAAIGDNS
The Injured.
Among the injured are;
John Knochadale, face and head iaeer-
ated-
Harold vermot head cut
David Houston, arm crushed
The AuchincIoss No. 1 shaft has been
operated over twelve years, 1t was orig
malIy sunk 10 the red ash vein, 1910
feet deep. The vein was worked out
and later abandoned, and the working
audspart Of the shaft became filled with
water.
The Ross vein. which is now being
worked. is nearly 100 feet above branch
ing on from the same shaft in which
400 men are employed.
The Fifth Car.
This morning at O'Clock. the hoist
ing engineer. Jacob ". Fine, took charge
Of the engines. relieving Iver Phillips.
the night engineer. Four loads of min
ers were sent down, and the above ten
dead crowded on the fatal fifth trip of
the carriage, laughing and Jestilg, un-
conscious that death awaited them with
open arms at the foot
An eleventh man. John Shukusky also
got on the carriage The head man.
Charles Stocks. put him on. the laH al
lowing bat ten men on each cage
When the signal was given Engineer
Fine began lowering the men, the empty
carriage coming mp on the other side.
When il had descended a few hundred
feet. the engineer found 20 his horror
that the speed OF the engines We're IN
creasiuE. and that he was unable 10 con
troll them.
He tried desperately To bring them TO
a stop, but said the throttle was de-
fective, and he was powerless 10 pre-
vent the catastrophe
Warning Impossible.
The engine house is 29J feet from the
shafr. ana he was unable 70 warn the
hundred men standing at the mouth or
their danger
So the descending cage sped on Us
mission of death and destruction.
A moment later the men at the sur
face. warned uE the speed Of the en-
glne. began scattering The ascending
mine carriage dashed up and ever the
shieve wheel. carrying part of the iron
framework and -pIiUtereo Lmoels "lEn
it, then scared like black bird of
death. with Cauopy-like OUJstreLched
wings. 20 the engine house. 200 feet
away. tearing big hole iu the wau
and wreckng the engine house ano en-
gines.
Engineer Fine saved his life by jump
ing from q window. The wIeckase IN
fured several men who We're sJandlns
at the mouth OF the shaft ready 10
descend.
What happened 10 the desCendins car
,.ispe ,ytrn its load of human freight can
orIy be surmised. but from "a hasty In
su-ction The bottom was torn out "neE
ir struck ana obstruction at the Ross
v.fu Iaudiug. and the ten men were
hurled 10 their death into the sumP
6Iled with water several hundred feet
below.
Mine Ofhcisls Summoned.
As soon al the accident occurred Cen
eraI Superintendent Phillips, or ScFan-
ton. was summoned, and came on a
special train. other mine oIhcials gaJn-
cred and there was conference TO take
-t. - ,,.go7ls sborlId there be any hone
tbat the victims in the shaft were
,Hlive.
Superintendent Phillips, District Sup