Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-08
ii DEAD BODIES. So LIVING MEN
TAKEN OUT OF ONE MINE.
100 DIE IN OTHER.
TWO SHAFTS DEMOLISHED
Gov. Hatfield of West virginia
Rushes on Special Train to Scene
of Disaster-Mine Part OF
%Guseenheim Holdings.

Eceles, w. Va.-General Manager
H. c. Bayes of the New Rivers 'ot
lieries company announced that the
100 miners entombed In Mine NO D
wrecked by an explosion are dead
MIR. Bayles said the disaster was due
to a dust explosion.
Eleven bodies have been recovered
from Mine No. 6, a connecting opera
ton, and six men are missing flltS'
nine men, all seriously burned were
rescued from this operation.
Rescue work late was at a STAND
still because of the fire and gases
Renewed efforts to open a way INTO
Mine No. 5 will be made when ire
subsidies.
One hundred and ninety men were
at work In Mine No. 5, and not one OIL
them reached the surface. h NINE
Immediately caught fire, and attempts
at rescue work were futile. Rescue
~narties, driven back by the intense
heat and deadly gases, were forced 10
+ halt their efforts to reach the en-
tombed men. ,
D With a %thunderous d~etonation when
. made the hills culver and sent the val
Q lev folk panic-stricken from their
homes. two mines of the New River
Galleries company here blew up, bury.
n ing 24S miners under tons OF tanglea
wreckage $50 feet under ground.
The mountain side is alive VIII
q widows and fatherless children wh1
!. silently weep while by the light O
g Pickering lanterns, a horde OF black
z aned men are working frantically u
u release their imprisoned companions
Flames and smoke are belchlhg iron
tbe creyices of the crumbled smart ant
D. although all hope OF saving any o
the buried men has been abandoned
lie golfers from miles around are risKlh
is their lives in an effort to snull GU
10 the flames with earth and water.
CO The New River company operate
d. six mines at Eccles, Nos. = n b COZ
Meeting. There was a slight expioslo
In No. 6, followed by another slight'
v greater in No. 5. Ten minutes late
" htke valley shook with the third bia'
Kaa., 6. The timbers over the ma
ne shaft. the ventilators and the Gag
were shot to the sky and deposit'
far I'D the hillside.
The Virginia railway suspehu'
of traffic and rushed a rescue ere"
ne the Pawama Coal & Coke company
in Matoaks. several miles away, with
to number of physicians and nurses.
ma The superintendent also called
ms help from Beckley, another point
of the Virginia railroad, but the Matoa
YER crew in charge of the federal mi
Of rescue car. were the first to arri'
md The crew set to work manfully, .
'm- were greatly hampered n their wo
a by the half-crazed women and childr
ote who crowded the entrances n
dangering their lives near the fial
TO belching assures.
JOS It finally became necessary 10 Ien
ado in the mines and station armed guar
to drive the people back.
irb- The rescuers cleared No. g mine a
Ible then started to reach No. 5 throu
zeal the connecting walls of No. q. J
and work is progressing slowly and TIL
nta- is M likelihood that the workers {
reach the imprisoned men In Tune
The complete list Of the dead co
not be obtained. They are compo
of Americans, white men, negro
Slavs Hunearians and Italians.