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ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN MINERS REPORTED KILLED. 1Torrlle Txpleston in a Wova Scotia Mine-The Most Appalling Colsemity Ever Known in the History off the Cumberland Coal Fields~The Accident Shrouded in Mystery — Some of the Victims Mutilated Beyond Recognition Hallifax, N.S. Fets, 23.—The first great disaster in the history of the Cumberland coal fields occurred Saturday afternoon, when an explosion took place in the east slope of the Spring Hill mines, resulting in thnee loss of life. It. is impossible was yet to ascertain the exact number of the killed, but already twenty-six bodies have been recovered and ten men have been brought up alive, but terribly mutilated. They are not likely to recover. The iatest information says that there were over 10¢ men down in the shaft of the east slope at the time of the explosion, and that there is no doubt that the loss of life will much between eighty and ninety, and perhaps 100. the cause of the disaster, is a mystery, as the lope was examined by a commit tee of the men last week ,and, reinepointed Friday by the deputy government inspec tor, di is impossible to xacertify the number of Det 1 down the mine, at the time of the explosion, but it is estimated at between seventy and a hundred. The mine has been completely wracked; choke damp set in immediately after the explosion and all the men beyond the debris where the explosio occurred: ara ot comes dead. “Ventilation has been par tially restored and it is not believed that the mine is on fire. The dead bodies so far recovered are: HERBERT ARMISHAW. WILLIAM Brow. Brnxxsy BAINBRIDGS, Jonx BEVTLEFIE. Joan Born. ANDREW CARMICHAEL JOHN CARMICHAEL. Marrurw Corniss. Riewany Dawsor. Jamie JORNSON. LAUGHLIN McKERA Jon MCKINNON, ALLEN MCKINNON. RB. VeDoNnan, SAMULL MUCKLE. JEVERNIAD MURPHY. Janis McVrr. Davin.cVey. JAMES Morris. EDWARD SmiTH,. ROLERTui, s WORLDS JANES SHARPLES Wiis, EH. Torsme ARTHUR ANDERSON. Pauap B. Wie In some cases several members of a fam ily are among the killed and in the case of the Carmichael, a father and his two sons are dead. Sherlock is an old British veteran and was formerly in the royal ar tillery, stationed at this garrison. The wounded so far recovered are David Merritt, David Lockhart, Cyrus Munro, Harry Nash, Hyatt Noiles, John Dickens, John B. Anderson, Gordon Carmichael, Hugh Bunt, John Conway and several others whose arms could not be asce tained. All the horses are killed. Brave volun teers are still down the pit, attempting to cut through the debris to the victims who are known to be dead beyond, the point where the exploson occurred, but this work is carried on with great difi culty, as the rescuers are driven back by the deadly choke-dump. It is estimated that fully forty men were killed. The most terrible scenes were withowed at the pits mouth as the bodies were brought up. The air was rent with the heart-breaking shrieks of the wives and mothers of the victims This is the first great disaster which has occurred in the Cumberland coal fields and the third most disastrous in the his tory of Nova Scotia. The two previous calamities were the explosions at the Ford pit, Stellarton, ten years ago, when forty five lives were lost, and the disaster at the Drummond mine, Westville, seventeen years ago, when sixty-five men were killed. The Springhill mine is owned by English and Montreal capitalists. ‘It em ployed 1,000 men and had an output of 500,000 tons a year. A later disputch from the scene of the disaster places the number of dead at 117. Two of the wounded have since died. They are Williard Carter and J. McNeil. Some of the bodies taken out were fear fully mutiated and had to be identified by their clothing or marks on their body. The mine outbuildings have been tem porarily converted into mosques and hos pitals, where the dead and injured are taken. The enormity of the accident has stunned the peoples and they are just beginning to realize the evtent of the dreadful cal amity. New Mexico Press Association, ALBUQUEIQUE, N. M., Feb. 93.—The constitution and by-laws of the New Mex ico Press association have been issued and will be distributed by Secretary AcCreight to the members of the association at once. President Kistler has submitted the prop osition for a granu press excursion of New Mexico editors and their wives to the City of Mexico in May to Superintendent Dyer, and he is in communication with the head officers at Topeka.
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Gloversville Daily Leader
Gloversville, New York, US
Mon, Feb 23, 1891
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