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Fiend Of The Pit

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
January
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Pitïsbuug, Jan. 28.- A Scottdale, Pa., special to The Times says: Eighty miners are known to have been killed in the shaft of the Mammoth Coke works mine by a terrible explosión which occurred early yesterday. Mine Boss Eaton, who escaped al)out one minute before the fatal explosión, is the only individual remaining to relate the story. An order for eighty eoffins lias been given to a Mount Pleasant undertaker. John Boles, whose brother is in the fatal shaft, was here last evening, and relates the following story: "About 9 o'clock this morning we heard ft loud report in the directiou of the shaft. We immediately started to the opening only to find a suffocating volume of sraoke and gas gushing therefrom, and at once knew what was wrong. We began the work of subduing the flaines and clearing the shaft of gas. This we accomplished by starting the large fans. I am couvincei that every man who was in the shaft at the time was killed, either by falling timbers or by the after-damp. When I left the mine this evening fifty persons were known to have been killed." One Hundred and Ten Men Dead. A special representative of The Times and United Press now at the scène of the accident telegraphs from Youugwood, Pa., as follows: "One hundred and ten men were killed in the mine explosión at Mammoth Mine No. 1. Sixty of the bodies have already been recovered. The mine is on flre and it is thought that many of the unfortuuates will be burned before it is possible to reach them. An army of men are at work in the pit endeavoring to stay the flre and recover the dead bodies. They are making but little headway." Distrist Master Work man Wise last evening issued an appeal to the miners and coke workers throughout the coke regions for prompt contributions in aid of the families of the unfortunate victims of the disaster.