The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-14
Rescue Parties Bring Dead and
Injured to Surface.
Father and Two Sons Victims
Cause Is Unknown.

With one exception, the loss OF NE
| was the greatest in the history or
! Kansas coal mining, mine officials
| said last night. Forty men were kill
| ed in 1889 in an explosion in mine
at Frontenac.
The killed and injured were work
ing in the north part of the mine
while thirty-three men were busy in
the south drifts. A driver heard
rumbling noise. followed shortly by
smoke which began to pour out of
given and the miners in the south
drifts began to emerge from under
ground.
Timothy Reedy, one of the mine
operators, was caught in the shaft
with the miners but was rescued. He
will recover.
Injured Will Recover.
The mine is operated by Reedy and
| Edward Ryan under a lease from the
Mayer Coal company. The shaft was
sunk six years ago.
A hasty investigation showed that
no miners were emerging from the
north drifts and rescue parties were
Immediately organized to fight their
| way to their aid. State and federal
rescue teams were summoned and on
arrival of Pellegrino and Forbes, the
rescue was reduced to a system. AS
fast as the rescuers met the entombed
miners they were hoisted to the top
and physicians who had been sum-
moned from Mineral, Scammon,
Cherokee and Columbus, began their
fight to save the Pickering lives of
the men who had not been instantly
killed by the explosion. Several were
taken from the mine fatally injured
and attempts of science proved to be
of no avail.
Seven were rescued whom physi-
clans declared would suffer no i'll eff
fects from the entombment.
State Mine Inspector Pellegrino re-
turned here from the scene of the dis
aster shortly after o'clock. He re-
fused to say what had been the cause
of the explosion.
81 will make no comment until after
I have conducted a thoro official in
vestigation which probably will be
Friday" he declared.
The Dead.
WILLIAM HEY.
RUDOLPH TRELZ.
PAUL LEFEVRE.
| FRANK JERINO.
JOHN LANTROIO.
w. H. WINDSOR.
| LUD WINDSOR.
FRANK WINDSOR.
CHARLES ROTH.
MATT ROTH.
J. w. PAIGE.
DOMINO GALLO.
JOHN FRYE.
A. H. ROYCROFT.
CARLO TAVERINO.
PAUL KONATZ.
GREGOIRE BURGY.
MIKE URISK.
| TONY KROSHOL.
| LYLE HEY.
List of Injured.
The injured miners, besides Mr.
Reedy, are:
Floyd Bresovoir, Charles Bresovoir,
Tony Steffler, Frank Bouret, George
Tornary, Mon Racy, Louis Manley.
II NIT, l,;e
sons, Lud and Frank, were killed, was
veteran miner in the Pittsburg dis
trict. Frank was unmarried but Lud
is survived by a widow and two chill
dren. Two other families were broken
into with the loss of William Hey and
his son Lyle, and Matt Roth and his
son Charles.
All the bodies were recovered from
the mine before rescue parties quit
work last night. Every person known
to have been in the mine has been ac-
counted for. either on the injured list
or among the dead.
Close Mines in District.
Virtually all the coal mines in the
Pittsburg district were idle today and
owners have announced that opera
tons would net be resumed until flu
nerals were hsld for the twenty men
killed yesterday in an explosion in the
Ryan & Reedy coal mine at Stone CITY.
The majority of the dead and
wounded were foreigners. The catas-
trophe made at least forty children
fatherless and in some cases the en-
tire male portion of families were
wiped out.
The explosion had its phenomena
in that miners beneath the ground in
adjoining shafts asserted they scarcely
noticed it, while citizens at Mineral.
four miles distant, were attracted i'm
mediately by the CULVER of the earth
and the conclusion Immediately fol-
lowing.