Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1904-01-30
GREAT MINE DISASTER
EXPLOSION AT cHESWIck, PA,
KILLS 100 PEOPLE.
ONLY one NAN TAKEN OUT ALIVE
Heart-snding Scenes Around the
Desth.Pit-Twenty Men Engaged In
Recovering the Entombed Men.
Mine Inspector On the Ground.

that can be gathered al late hour
tonight, between lS0 and 1870 men are
lying dead in the headings and pas
sage ways Of the Harwick mine of the
Allegheny Coal Company at Cheswick,
the result Of terrific explosion to-
day.
Cage after cage has gone down into
the mine and come up again, but only
three miners OF all those that went
down TO work this morning have been
brought to the surface One man Is
Adolph Gnna, and he is still alive, but
In semi-co scious condition at the
temporary hospital at the rude school
house on the hillside above the mine
Henry Mayhem, check weighman. and
George Waltman, tipple man, died OF
their injuries.
Rescuer Dies.
In addition to the miners who were
al work when the explosion occurred,
is Is now believed by practically all
OF the men of the rescue party, who
have come up the 220-foot vertical
shaft for a warming and breathing
spell, that Selwyn NJ. Taylor. the min
ing engineer VINO plotted the NINE anu
VINO was the frst TO reach the bottom
after the explosion occurred, Is now
among the list Of dead
OF those in the mine all are prob
ably dead
CAGES Wrecked.
,,. I' o.,o
"I oNpioo'on o''"' ~" o" go
oloIN ,'l9 i'o' n.nS' 'no ,"o "i''
wa .'ns "aS ,'ie S"uue'' '",'inlc unUo'
s'o"i" '"u 'neh Sice' VI nam ior
'o"eu Wy t"e ueep s."',' 'o." ,i''e
ages VIE hu'ie9 'men'y lee' aoo,e
.ne .,,,a ,a"u''s' @ anu 'he '".ee ' ,iien o,' VI.
uppie "c'u nu'leu W 'he s'ou'u'
"u'e "us ,h'o"h "'Sn a"oNe 'he Smai' ,
anu ie'' ueau oh 'he siounu' ihs
,yu'v gu ''ien "e'e p'ousn' a. INV, w
,n's wy ""e'e '"o VI '"en' nave ''n'o
u'eu'
90 'oon as 'ne i"hloie VI 'he w
pIos,oh anu 'he crash a. 'he p'' mouth
.', a,''.u s,, .ne MY .illase m we WIVES WIVES
""" el''u'eh @ vi 'ne 'iiet' ,,' pc'o" ,usheu rus
W ,"c SVene VI tne u'sns'e'' pul "
sa'n Nv onoo,,"s''it ne'e M"9 ~
Tho caoes ,ha, IL, ,,o rr r,an in,o tSo
mines and brought them ont again
when the DAVIS work was done. were
both demolished
A,u;o p.,,,;,
,n
~" "as ""s 'h'ie was Jam VI
""N'o"s "oiioi anu cn''''e,' "n,'ins
"oou' .,re mum Vi ''o p,' "cic
were cai'S ior assistance anu lor sur
'ne n'hu, ou' !, was NOV un'i,
e'och 'l'.S a''e'nooh 'n', '"e nlSt
a.'ehip' u, resc"e was h'""e' Inns
was ia'iu'e' as 'ie 'Wo men VINO
sol"n.ee'eu % were u'iNeh p'cN o' '"e
'o,.i o,"r,,, a.f, o,,o. o.a,oo,. ca,n.,.n NJ
onoruy ai'er cioch oei"Ih M'
i"y'o' an. ohe VI iiia a'S's.a i's S's,
in,o ,,o m sha,, @ TavIar l. s,iu dnun
,h"no III ,,,,,a" neron,, ba' hoa''
,o ,,alo -, ''iues h'. ,',., " sn n.t,,'
49,, ayau Thaa. WI or" ~ ~
6rs, of ,ho rasomn n.r,,, honIad w ,ha
s,,nsooo t,I1 tia .,,o. =, iis t,i,,
,hrnnnh ,ha ,'i, H. oiJ. ''
n
'homas WOODS o'ory'
i was with Taylor, and we clam
bered over three or four falls. ray
lor laid out the mine and seemed to
know the way. There was one man
alive at the foot OF the SHAFT. lie was
sent up and thea we took the muld
path into the south level; we saw two
men who were alive, and notified those
back oil MS, and then Went on We
passed the third, fourth and NTH head
ins and through an oVerdrllt into the
air shait, began to feel dizzy and
sick, and thea ! saw Taylor stagger
and fall. His lantern fell, We tried
tc lit him up, but could not carry
nm up, and ! made my own way to
safety
Mine Inspectors Views.
+. W. Cunningham. the mine inspec.
tor of the fourteenth district, reached
Harwick about 1870. When seen by
an Associated Press reporter, Just at
ter his arrival, ne said
u welt to Greensburg 10 inspect a
mino this afternoon and when reach.
ed home | found bunch OF kilograms