Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-14
MANY EXAGGERATED REPORTS
sENr oUr--NusmER OF DEAD
MAX BE LESS THAN FIRST rs.
rIMArE-wrLL REouIRa, sEv.
ERAL DAYS 10 REPAIR MIME
A DEsroRaLIzINc EFFECT ON
FIELD.

a"o "oth VI Foecuv Vt the Odd lee
OF the miners and carpenters kih ed
IN the fearful explosion OF Tuesday
morning cont MUGS without inter
miss on. Thres crews now relieve
each other. At two o'clock today
a total OF sixty-four dead had been
taken out, and Il 10 thought that
there are ten 10 nrteen more bodies
n the mine.
Out OF hfty bodies taken out AZ an
aally hour this morning. only TWEEN
sy-tour had been identified. The
work Of Identification has progressed
4Scinbiy today. however. AMI our
orresDondent says that only n few
oma II unldentfied or the twenty
our ideut fed this morning, twelve
&c whitc and twelve colored.
About thirty Uf tnv meN la The ilI-
eted mine were termed miners. :"
hdt :, men who dig coal. aud the
tbeis were company mfn," track
ayers, carpenters, etc.
Greatly exaggel ated reports hay o
tene out N regard to the number In
DE IN ne at the time OF thu explosion
ome OF them placing tl,s number
800, The HUNTINGTON ID spatch
says that 2ss men went to work
mat morning and that TWO bodles
aad been recovered--thatko OF Johs
lowers, a mine foreman pSkpAa cloth
pg had been entirely stripped from
al by the force of the explos son.
nd companion whose body wa
80 terribly mutiated that identifica-
ion was mpossih g. Bowers In not
only not dead, but was able to talk
tho explosion.
Bert Abel former Huntington
aan, is reported among the miss
ing, but his body has not been re-
covered.
The body OF Henry Bolen, a
Young man about 20 years of age.
nd among the first recovered, was
1ken to his former home in Floyd
ouniy, Va, this Afternoon, accom-
anied by a brother, who escaped a
re fate by having been sick Tues
day morning. The elder Bolen had
gean m ner In the Lick Branch
nine for the past three years. He
I'D today That he was positive thar
ere were from 75 to so M en- in the
mine when the exp os on occurred
re could not account for the expIo
son, but did not believe ~ could
have been caused by an accumula-
Ion OF dust.
Anthony Johnston, a eolored man
whose home was Ia this city, and
aho was formerly a brakeman IN
ne employ Of the railway compa-
~, was among the killed. HIS flu
-lera' will be held here tomorrow.
Henry Lee, another coiorsd man
vas taken 90 Evington. Va. b.
ormer home.
ohen idsro hed dead are Dan
z rugton, Of switchbaek; Everett
lips, GeoIgs Peters, Joseph
onts A. n. Miller. Edward Co las
chares Pbipps, james Acrss. Rober;
Nye,h and r ley snrrRtt and Dave
5urIatt, the latter brothers who
lsd been at work but a few days
fhty were from speedwsil, wytho
gounty, Va. ana had never worked
n a coal nine befors. The follow
ng are cdorei: ,. 81. cobbs, Luz
her Bouldin. John Huntsr. George
Hinssy. frank Hoston. Ernest Ter
~, FL clsrk. Bro~p Lee. L@muel
Dean and a man known 0ny By the
Nickname Of Tattoo"
A Ja OF e,hsrs Which shouid
rave reached us by number two fail
ed to be received, and We are On
BILE to take them correctly over the
phone.
This disaster following 80 closely
ON The hse's OF another. leads toe
Wheeling Register TO say:
The second m ne explosion, more
disastrous than the first, has Occurr-
ed In the Lick Branch coHsry. Halt
a hundred persons gave up tAslr
lives q few weeks ago. and nov the
number has been mutt piled. Az in
former cases, ire m'ns had been
pronounced By state inspectors one
OF the safess best equippea Aad
most scientifically ventilated IN the
region in which "a q l,Osatsd
The increasing ndmber OF mine
d sasters in West Virginia may vel
cause @arm. The oecupat!on o,
mining is hazardous at best, and Z