The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-02-15
OUR WEST VIRGINIA
NEIGHBORS.

Mr.. Roberts, who has been conduct
ing a big meeting at w ayne, has
been importuned to hold a meetingat
the Mill Creek Church soon after
the close of this one, which he will
in all probability do. From there
he will come to Louisa to hold a
Getting
III
Mrs. johnson, the wife of ]. ].
Johnson, ex-member of the Wayne
County Court, and mother of G. NJ.
johnson, deputy sheriff of the
county for two terms, died at her
home on Buffalo creek on last
Saturday. The many friends of
this most estimable lady most
sincerely condole with the bereayed
family.
Ire common council of the town
Of Wayne met at the court house
Tuesday evening and elected Lum
Bhuufield, the jailer, to the Odffice
OF town sergeant and street COM
missioner for The ensuing year.
Mr.. Rrumfield gave the bond requir-
ed at the same session of the cpun-
ell and took the office, and en-
Tered upon the duties OF the office
g, once.
iii
E.kns, W. Va, February u After
every nook and corner OF mine No.
% at Thomas, where an explosion
occurred last Monday morning had
been searched, it was announced to-
night that % bodies had been found.
Including that of Superintendent D.
R. Jones. This brings the list of
known fatalities up to 90 Parts
OF the mine unfrequented for years
have been explored, and it is said
probably no more bodies will be
found. Repairs have been eomplet-
d and the mine will be in use to-
orrow for the first time since the
ACCIDENT. Tie authorities expected
10 hold an inquest to-day, but post
Ioned it until tomorrow. The mine
management declines to make any
statement concerning the cause Of
the disaster, leaving it TO the State
Mine Inspector to determine and re-
port.
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Charleston, w. Va, February -
Seventy-six bodies have been found
in the Stuart Mine and identified
Three bodies brought out are still
unidentified and 10 men are miss
ing The death list is surely as
high as Sc.
Efforts to locate the missing men
are undated However, the search
is prosecuted with no belief that they
ere alive.
III
Judge Evans is devoting great
deal of his time to establishment
Of a miners hospital at Thacker in
the midst of the Thacker coal fields
daily he receives letters from in
tereeted parties in these filds ask
ing him to push the matter with all
his vim, as they recognize that it IS
a necessity, Williamson, the coun-
" seat of Mingo county is tie ter
minus Of the Kenova division Of the
Norfolk and Western railroad anC
there re about 500 employees of this
road besides the miners from A
operations in that field that would
benefit by the establishment of {
miners hospital. One of the
best arguments that Judge Evans
uses with tie committee is the fact
that it is a distance of rs mile:
from Williamson to the hospital a
welch and the same distance to {
hospital at Huntington.
III
The writer having occasion to visit
the extreme northeastern part Of
Mineo county. where excitement i!
running high over the discovery Of
a d,posit of gold ana silver, the ex-
tent of which has not been ascertain
ed made an investigation as to the
facts, as far as was possible under
The circumstances, and gives the fol
lowing statement as facts open foI
the investigation OF interested par
ties:
The exact location of this territory
:. about five miles from Breeder
postoffice, on Left Fork of 12-Pole,
unning and adjoining lincoln coun-
~ on the north, also about five miles
.outh of Eloise postoffice, Wayne
county, W. Va
The land where this seam seems 10
be most valuable is owned by Mrs.
Mary Hager, who has recently had
assays made at U. s. Assay, Char
iUtte. n C.
A Positive GATARRH