The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-03
FIVE OUT OF SIX
RESCUERS DEAD
Descend Into the Shaft
After the First Blast
and Are Caught by the
Second; Doctors Rush
ed to the Scene From
Nearby Towns.

TOWER CITY, Pa, Aug. Eight.
cen men were killed and two seriously
injured in a double explosion In the
| East Brookside mine Of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Iron company, caused
by what Is supposed to have been dy-
Mantle and gas.
Thirteen men died In the first e1.
plosion and FIVE went to their death in
the second blast, after an heroic at
| tempt to rescue the first victims. One
of the rescuers escaped.
The Dead.
DANIEL M. GINLEY, aged 4s, Tow
Ell City, leaves a wife and seven chill
dren.
HENRY MURPHY. 80, fire boss,
Tower City, wife and three children.
HENRY FARRELL, 40, foreman,
Tower City, wife and ten children.
HOWARD HAND, 81, laborer, Of
Muir, single.
HARRY HAND, "a, miner, Muir,
wife and three children.
JACOB KOPENHAVER, 26, shaft
man, Reinerton, wife and two children.
THOMAS BENNY, 30, miner, Rein
erton, wife and two children.
JOHN ENDISE.
CARRENI CAMPANI.
VICTOR sEANE.
CEVEDIA GROzIANO.
Two Of the dead have not been re-
covered. They are:
DANIEL FARLEY, 40, fire boss,
Tower City, wife and six children.
JOHN FESsLER, 4e, miner, Tower
City, wife and two children.
Three Rescued Alive.
1t Is not known what caused the ex-
plosions, but the miners at the colliery
are inclined to the belief that the first
explosion was that of dynamite and the
second was caused by gas which had been
liberated by the dynamite explosion The
dead were scattered about for distance
| of about quarter Of mile Only three
men were taken out alive and enc OF
these died on the way to the hospital
Superintendent John Lorenz. 60 years
old, was in the mine when the first OK
| plosiou occurred He was rescued sew
eral hours later. Henry scioffstal was
another taken out alive. Both were
| burned and bruised, but are expected to
recover. Superintendent Lorens was
| found crawling along tho ground trying
| to make his way through the debris to
| safety. 1t Is possible that tho real story
Of the explosion may mover be known, as
ell who were In a position to know were
| killed.
| While Superintendent Lorenz was in
the mine at tho time OF the first ex-
plosion, he was about 500 feet from II,
and II Is not thought that he knows the
| cause He is not In condition to talk.
Killed in Three Ways.
While the impression seems to be that
the first explosion was that Of dynamite.
1t IL also possible that IT might have been
duo to gas Tho men were killed In
| three different ways. Some OF them
were violently hurled against the side OF
the tunnel in which they were working
and crushed. some were burned to death
by the explosion Of gas and others were
suffocated by the after-danp which al
ways follows an explosion in the mines,
readily identified. The other five had
no rela atives In the vicinity. With few
exceptions, all OF the foreign workmen
were brought here from q distance.
Tho East Brookside colliery employs
about 300 men, 1t is situated on the top
OF the mountain about two miles west OF
Tower. City and within the same dis
tance OF a half dozen other little mining
towns In the Williams valley. The COLI
liery closed down Thursday evening for
the week. but Charles Portland, mining
contractor, who has q contract with the
Reading company to drive a tunnel, kept
some of his men at work. There we're
half a dozen muckers at work whose duty
Il is 10 load the debris blown down by
the blasts which are fred at night There
was also 81 mucker boss and a ba cksmith
and his helper. All were at work In the
tunnel which Is about a quarter OF a.
mile from the slope entrance TO the
mines.
Superintendent Lorenz and Mine Boss
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