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Show vi:ttwii sias e:s is v a fioi V i 8 la. : ju Maznt'itt' li.zi.h'i N. I'ji.. Fell. 4. A tt!T:.'.-! :i i i cty-uirew at Jicnrilic tliir- iri:. vvl'Ci oli; 'ulitciMi lives were i-.';. "i '.'. ni ooc:u ! i;i .-h1; i , i y C. Hay.icn k i T;;. . rkiiiu' is i UaLnt ii.iine.iiutei ; iii v..ri;:i!s, kiiuW!. ;is 2n'(. '.Mi; i:.f.l :u; livt- years a . il i,,s ii Vi'itii The c-.mst: .f tie; 1 s,.mt v:is iiiic ! tii drilling o! a .;.'.!: t'.ioucli a j-iilar. v. hich liierali ii ;:ui:n iisv i.nKiy of water ediilitic;. in ;'!:e old wo! i-i'.ib, sloodiKj; the jkm .:;k:ii'4s ai!-.i d.aniiis, ail the li e;. .2; I ..il ::); i; (;1 the ill, 110. .V:i.ani ii:v;(ipn. o;ie y lls sev si -Tho f.soa.eil !rirn thft nin. s,:y.-.,c s,:y.-.,c V-i-: v. iral ei:2ir;.c when thf ui'-t. .i"... .A' tlirui'i;h into l-l.e old slope. Hi el;t l to hi -oiiiiiaioi!s to run :!;eir li'.f s or iii wmiid bv. drowned. In i ik ii it i . the of water cafne and I:!'! 'f-'.h'ir. M;.':!V t r t'.boTi . .1 oi;n Nolnie. John H..iviv. rhar!e.s..io!', ViI!im H'-yle .'!.;'; i'nti :el i.a . i hareiy :;( aj-e-h 'i't;: water Tusu rapidly, and It-ffiv atli-up". eostid bf ti:.u!e to rese;:.' I ho .d : v.orkriH-i! t!u wuter ii ivf d in, and ;n I.- llian live mi?:ut-s ih.' si,ip,i. v.hii'h is '3'2-l feet dvep; w;-s .i:lfd to ih- n;o'.:th. :.:id eigl-teen na-n vl.ii a low hours hc l'.-.re, v;t!i li.c!d hearts, left the h:i;:hL sunsl;ii:e and i'k-'.r .-kv to (.eenI into the dark iMverii. were hr.ried in a waU:iy frave. evcrsi of ihese 112012 vrere r:i;:.rn.-d and h ave iartce families. 1 he iv.-ws of the disaster creiiteci the wildest exeitenie2it, and the Jitotjth of the slop? wa:i sonn tliror.ged wil'i people. T;i'.' scenes of tmgtiish that en.sno.l cannot he depleted. Tii-e vreatlier, which was bitterly eo!d. di.l not have any. t-ffeet tovvard d j;44nTn r ' crowd, and it was oe.ly after the . rihh- resr.lt was made plain that ;.jue of ii.e entnijihei' i::-n were livi , or could possibly n? reached until ail the water wys pnmjted out of tho slope, that ti:e grief-stricken friends of ti;e iinfortunate men could b induced to jo to their hoTnes. The tirra of Ilaydc-n & Co. will puiup the water out as rapidly as the nni-cliinery nni-cliinery placed in position can do the work. ' How Ion;? if. will take isacpn-s tior.. since no definite idsa of the vol-ure.o vol-ure.o of water can be ascertained. Some of the miners suy it will take fe.r.r v:e-ks ?!sny thcoiies are advanced as to the cause of the great disaster. Some c'nr.rsii it to neglect to notify the woik-ri' woik-ri' a;' tic dsn serous pr-'Ximitv of j V :-','!. |