Some Details Of The Horror

As sooii as it was possible preparations were made to recover the bodies of the victims, and a gang of workmen was at once organized to undertake the work. Superintendent Keigliley, who was the inspector in charge at the Dunbar mine after the accident there, assumed direction of the rescuing force, and au army of men was sent down into the pit to stay the progresa of the flames and recover the bodies of the hapless victims. Soon the flrst body was brought to the surface. It was that of John Kleen, a Germau, who had been dashed against the side of the shaft and rendered lifeless in nn instant. His body was fearfully ernshed and burned, but yet his relatives, with sight made keen by auguish, recognized Mm, and claimed the poor remains. Sixty Corpses Brouglit Up. In a few moments another body was hoisted to the mouth of the shaft, and thus the stream of bodies from the fountain of death below flowed on till by 7 o'clock at night sixty of the victims of this fearful sacrifice had been recovered. Many more were below and it was feared that it will be impossible to save all from the fires, which were steadily advancing despite every effort to check them. Fresh relays of men were sent down into the shaft every hour to relieve the exhausted crews below, and the work of rescue was pushed with almost superhuman energy. Effect of tlie Explosión. Xhose wño cave been ia the shaft prosecuting the work of recovering the bodies say that the scène is one oL awful horror. The force of the explosión shattered the walls of the shaft and filled the drifts with masses of earth torn from the roof and sides. The bodies of inany of the dead are buried in the debris and are difficult to flnd. The entrance to one of the drifts was completely closed and the timbers in the mine have been torn out or broken, rnak;ng the work of rescue exceedingly difficult and dangerous. The fires steadily encroaching in two directions have stopped the rescuers, the fearf ui heat ïnaking the air throughout the mine absolutely stifling. A Scène to Rend the Heart. The scène at the mouth of the shaft when the disaster became known was one to rend the heart. In what seemed but a moment a crowd had collected, and when they learned of the exteut of the calamity their grief was unrestrained. Mothers and wives crowded arouud the mouth of the pit and urged the men around to rescue their loved ones. Some even attempted to descend into that yawning chasru of death themselves to search for their dead. One woman, unable to be restrained, threw herself into the shaft, and added one more to the list of the victims. She was found lifeless at the bottom by the first body of rescuers, who sent her to the free air above, and lies beside the blackened and mangled form of him to whom she was to have been united tori ay. A Defectivo lamp tile Cause. The explosión is said to have been caused by a miner with a defective lamp going into an abandoned chamber where the gas had gathered. In an instant the entire shaft was a mass of llame and the walls of the chamber and shafts where the men were at work feil in every direction, crushing many of the miners beneath them. Everybody in the pit was killed. The positiou of their bodies told the story of their end. The force of the explosión, was feit for miles around. The List of Killed Growing. LATER. - It is said that at least 150 men were killed by the explosión. At 10 o'clock last evening word was received that 111 bodies had been taken out of the mine, and yet about fifty were missing. The Mumiuutli works where the explosión took place is uiw of the largest mines in the Connellsville región, and were formerly owned by the Morre coke flrm, but a few years ago were purchased by the H. C. Frick Coke company.