THE ALABAMA MINE CA5ASTR0PHE.
A Cleveland Boy in Alabama Vividly le
scribes this Terrible Disaster.
To tlie Editor of Tug Stab:
The terrible catastrophe at the
Virginia coal mines of. the Ala
bama Steel , and Wire Company
has added another bla-cVchapter
to the history of mining in the
United States. The exact num
ber of the slain may never be
known, but it is not less than 115
and may be 160. Every man in
th", ill-fated m'nd paa up his
life when the awful, explosion
occurred, or died for want of air
before the rescuing parties could
dig through the thousands of
tons of earth which shut out the
men from the world. The ex
plosion had so completely wreck
ed the mine that the rescuers
were ooliged to make their way
through a solid mass of debris.
The first report said that there
were 150 men in the mine. The
company officials denied this and
said that their books showed on
ly 116 workman in ihe p'.t at the
time of the explosion. The great
explosion occurred at 4 o clock
Monday, evening Feb. 20th and
by Tuesday night only 13 bodies
had been recovered, though there
were at that time 50 corpses in
sight. Immediately there gath
ered about the mouth of the mine
a terror-stricken crowd. The
women and the children were in
much grief. When the women
were forced to go outside the
lines they seemed to think that
an effort was b.ing made to force
them to abandon their loved ones
in the pit. They shrieked and
fought with the rescuoiug party,
which firmly, though gently,
tried to drive them back to the
surface. All night long the
crowd stood about the .mind
The women acted as if they were
crazy and the children taking the
example of their mothers, added
to confusion of the scene with
their shrill wails. A platform
was erected outside the mine for
the reception of the bodies
When the women saw the work
on this commenced they became
seized with the idea that the offi
cials were prepareing to burn
the bodies that were taken, out.
Men were sent among the crowd
of mourners to assure them.
When the first bodies were taken
from the the mine there was a
rush of the waiting crowd, and
the rescures were almost knock
ed down. The blankets cover
ing .the dead were torn off and
every women struggled to see if
the bodies were those of her
Joyed ones. Every new load of
dead that were taken out from
the pit caused the sbreiking and
the wailing to break out afresh.
For three days these scenes went
pn continually, day and night
There are ports of the mine that
may never be opened again. The
bodies that have been rescued
are frightfully mangled and dis
figured. One victim showed
signs of life when found, but he
died after being taken to the sur
face. One hundred families have
been deprived of their support
and there were 3U0 orphans made
in the twinkling of an eye
It is known that there are stil!
eight more bodies in the mine, if
not more.
The carcasses of 13 mules are
Still in the ill fated mine. Men
who have been in the mines since
the explosion say that the wreck
age to props and other work
usuaily carried on in the mines,
looks as if a cyclone had struck
the place. The list of recovered
bodies taken from Virginia coal
iriines number one hundred. In
one enlry in the mine consider
able trouble was experienced in
carrying bodies to the main slope
wb r the tram cars were stand-1
ing. Only two of the carasses
of the 13 mules were carried out
of the mines, the train cars bo
ing so small. It was necessary
to carry 15 bodies of miners over
the body of a mule to get them
to the main slope. The carcass
of the mule had swollen up and
the rescueiug party had to pass
through a most terrific ador.
This was the hardest kind of
work but the willing rescuers
paid but little attention there'o '
The cause of the explosion
wa- a dry shot followed after
blacii damp and gaa. Members
of the rescuing p irty say they
found a great number of the men
lying on their laces, their coats
being drawn up around their
- eyes and mouths. In some in
staifw the meu ' had their faces
kurifd in t licir coat sleeves. A
umber of bodies were found at
least i500 feet unu even further
than that. After the explosion,
the men realizing their awful
jierd cament had attempted to
reach a place where they could
get frosh air. In cases where
tkey remained flat on the ground,
thi ir luces covered, seeking
v ry p .s-ihle inch uf air.-.death
inioing horrors in the world have
happened where every soul in
the mine at the time was lost.
Even steamship horrors have
had their survivors. Railro.id
accidents have happened in
which numbers it people were
filled, but always there has been
one or two who were left to tc-'.l
the tail. In the Virginia, coal
mine accident there is no one to.
give a description of the awful
coti&trophe. The coal mine is
in a few miles of Birmingham.
Success to The Star..
Floyd Costnku
Pell City, Ala., Feb. 25, 1905.
The Editor's Apology.
Our Home.
An excited military looking
man entered the editorial san
ctum of a Missouri paper the other
day and exclaimed: "That not
ice cf my death is false' sir. I
will horse whip you within an
inch of your lile, sir, if you don't
apologize in yournext issue." An
editor who is up to his business
always know how to get up ap
propriate apologies when they
are demanded. Thateditorknew
hisbusiness, and the next day his
paper contained the following
apology: "We regret extremely
to announce that the paragraph
which started that Major Blazer
is dead is without foundation."
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SHELHY. N. C.
service by Publication.
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