Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-02-04
THE NINE DISASTER.
seventy-0ne Bodies Recovered at
the Harwick Mine.
ONLY EIGHTEEN WERE IDENTIFIED.
Beds Of the Living stripped 90 Cover inc
ohastiy corpses-Nsarly All the hsm'-
hes In the stricken Communiw
Practically Helpless.


pittsburg. Pa, Jan. 2S.-Three days
have elapsed since the terrible catas-
trophe at the Harwick mine Of the
Allegheny Coal company and last nignt
At midnight II bodies had been re-
covered and brought to the surface.
Only is Of these have been identiied.
Yesterday was day OF horror IN tne
little village on the hill above the pit
mouth. but even while the blackened
bodies were brought from the top Oh
the shaft and then on sleds 70 the
schoolhouse on the hill above where
the undertakers were ready to receive
them there seemed to prevail In the
community as clutch that repressed
their natural feelings OF passionate
anxiety and sorrow the grim realiza-
ton that there is still much work 70
be done before the full extent OF the
catastrophe has been realized. Tne
Allegheny Coal company last night In
an Official statement positively admit
ted that all Of the men who were IN
the mine when the explosion occurred
are dead. There are III names on the
list which does not include Selywn M.
TAYLOR or the two men who were on
the tipple above the mine shaft when
the explosion came. Nor does the list
include the name Of Daniel Lysle, OF
Castle Shannon, whose body was found
in the mine yesterday morning. He
was one Of the men who went down In
the mine to work Monday night, but
became separated from the rest and
wandered far ahead Of the air. His
body was found sitting with his back
to the wall Of one Of the rooms. He
had evidently been overcome by the
afterdamp. This brings the oficial
number Of known dead up to 174, but
the list may still be incomplete, as 1t
is possible that some boys may have
gone into the pit to work under their
fathers direction, whose names have
not yet been ascertained. Hutchinson.
the custodian Of the lamps, says that
between $50 and 100 lamps were given
out on the fatal Monday morning and
no man was given more than one. At
the shaft mouth huge fires have been
built and groups Of men are gathered
there trying to keep warm. In the
blacksmith shop, about 100 feet from
the mouth of the shaft, are 81 collins
each containing body.
Beds Of the living were stripped OIL
clothing yesterday and the clothing
sent to the mines to cover the ghastly
corpses as they were brought up. The
captain OF the police squad on duty
| here has orders to prevent the bodies
from being viewed at the shafts mouth
| in order to minimize the suiferingi
Of the Harwickites who await every
ascent Of the cage.
The fact that nearly all the families
| In the stricken mining community have
been rendered practically helpless By
the disaster seems already impressed
upon the surrounding towns. In add
tion to $4,000 subscribed here yester
day Mayor Hays holds q balance Of IS.
600, which was subscribed by Pitts
burg citizens for the relief Of the But
| Ter fever sufferers. This amount, b,
direction Of the Butler relief commit
tee, will DO diverted from Its origina
purpose and be given to the relic
committee to-day.
At two o'clock this morning 1t ]
said that over 80 more bodies hav
been found and are being collected q
| the bottom Of the shaft.