The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-05-01
II DEAD BODIES. SO LIVING MEM
TAKEN OUT OF ONE MINE
100 DIE IN OTHER.
TWO SHAFTS De- OllSHEn
Gov. Hatfield Of West viroin,.,
Rushes on Special Train to Scene
Of Disaster-Mine Part Of
Guooenheim Holdings.

Eccles, W Va.-General Manage,
H. c. Bayes Of the New Rivers Chi.
lieries company announced that tho
100 miners entombed in Mine No {
wrecked by an explosion are dead
Mr.. Bayles said the disaster was dpe
to a dust explosion.
Eleven bodies have been RECOVERED
from Mine No. 6, a connecting opera
ton, and six men are missing. Fifty.
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 in,o.
Mine No. 5 will be made when fire.
subsidies.
One hundred and ninety men were
at work in Mine No. S, and not one Of
them reached the surface. The mine
Immediately caught fire. and attempts,
at rescue work we're futile. Rescue
parties, driven back by the intense
heat and deadly gases. were forced to,
halt their efforts to reach the en-
tombed men.
With a thunderous defamation which
made the hills culver and sent the val
ley folk panic-stricken from their
homes, two mines Of the New River
Galleries company here blew up. bury
ing PAS miners under tons of tangled
wreckage $50 feet under ground.
The mountain side is alive with
widows and fatherless children Who.
silently weep while by the light Of
Pickering lanterns, a horde of black
ened men are working frantically 10
release their imprisoned companions.
Flames and smoke are belching from
the crevices Of the crumbled shaft and
although all hope of saving any Ct
the buried men has been abandoned.
GOLFERS from miles around are risking
their lives in an effort to snuff cut
the flames with earth and water.
The New River company operates
six mines at Eccles, Nos. 6 and 3 con-
Meeting. There was a slight explosion
in No. 6, followed by another slightly
greater in No. 5. Ten minutes later
the valley shook with the third blast,
in No. 6. The timbers over the maid
shaft, the ventilators and the cages.
were shot to the sky and deposited
far up the hillside.
The Virginia railway suspended
traffic and rushed a rescue crew C.
the Pawama Coal & Coke company at
Matoaks, several miles away, with g
number of physicians and nurses.
The superintendent also called for
help from Beckley, another point Oh
the Virginia railroad, but the Matoaks
crew In charge of the federal mine,
rescue car, were the first to arrive
The crew set to work manfully, hut
were greatly hampered in their work
by the half-crazed women and children
who crowded the entrances and en-
dangering their lives neal the flame
belching assures.
1t finally became necessary to fence
in the mines and station armed guards
to drive the people back.
The rescuers cleared No. 6 mine and
then started to reach No. 5 through
the connecting walls of No. 6. The
work is progressing slowly and there.
is no likelihood that the workers can
reach the imprisoned men in time.
The complete list of the dead could
not be obtained. They are composed
of Americans. white men, negroes
Slavs, Hungarians and Italians.