Show LATEST TELEGRAM The Coal asioe Disaster Chicago17 The Tribunes Broad wood gives the following list of miners known to be lost John Huler leaves a wife and four children chil-dren Adam McQuestin leaves a wife and five children Robert Mc Questin Isaac Peerson leaves a wife and one child James Carroll B Chalzell leaves a wife and three children John Boyd leaves a wife H Cady John Neil leaves a wife and six children A Orr leaves a wife and three children P C Redman Red-man leaves a wife and two chil dren 7R Harper leaves a wife and three children P H Wall Fritz Roe Samuel Atkins leaves a wife and six children John Atkins A I Holkaleav wife and two children George Bulskousky John Bulskon sky Larry Sullivan John Brokma leaves a wife and four children A Tulton K Grabe William Scholia leaves a wife and two children James Pearson John Pearson Harry Anger leaves a wife and childJohn Mathew Gotenberger Frank Mott leaves a wife and three children William Kleiser Joseph Smith C Clotlin John Gullock Frank Klass Adam D AmID leaves a wife and four children E D Amm Joe Grates M Neyski John Denbrosky Anton Denbroaky F Merr H Kemsey F Saup Latt Belz P Seck John Huber Hu-ber Frank Huber Willie McQues tion Adam McQuestion jr John i Pierson Matthew Redman D M Bridge T Costigan Adam Stewart jr Frank Stewart Hugh Nesbitt A B Egington Simon Strumps John Smith R Rabbert George Matthew W C SecoraH Clossner J Lense John French Job Johnson John-son 00 Sterlow John Anderson Wm McCully Thomas Rogers and Joe Busek This was the most terrible tragedy that ever visited a Wilmington coal field It was in the number 2 shaft of the Wilmington Coal Mine and Manufacturing Co known as the Diamand Co It was situated 3 A miles northwest of this city The little village of Diamond is a scene of desolation calculated to wring the heart of the most hardened hard-ened to scenes of misery 8 men and 6 boys lie dead in the mine audit may be weeks before even the I melancholy satisfaction of recovering recover-ing their dead bodies is recorded No such calamity has ever befallen this section of country or any other mining region The whole of Diamond is devoted to mining and this blow carries death into one hundred families In several instances in-stances all the male members of the family have been swept away A section of prairie land by 90 feet over which the floods had extended until the water stood three or four feet deep buddenly caved in the result being the instantaneous instan-taneous flooding of a mine in which 300 men and boys were at work Inside of half an hour the water had reached all parts of the works and tonight was within five feet of the main shaft Seventy four human beings were choked death All hope of the possible rescue of any of them by the opening of a driveway drive-way from the old air shaft into the works was abandoned at dusk when the water peured into the lastnamed shaft arid the workmen were compelled com-pelled to desist The mine is in the extreme corner of Will County The miners live in the village just across the line in Grundy County The Diamond Companys pits are known as No1 No2 etc One of the leading stockholders is Hugh Jewett of the Erie Railway Pit No 2 the scene of todays horror has been operated about three years and from 200 to 400 men and boys were regularly Qmployed in it This morning 290 or 300 went in Shaft No 2 is ninetytwo feet deep and above the coal lies seventy to 110 feet of earth The coal vein varies in thickness from two feet and nine inches to nine feet Above it is a layer of soapstone resting on a bed of fire clay The vein winds and dips a good deal and thus some parts of the mine arc lower than others oth-ers From the main shaft there are radiatingjpassages in every direction in which coal is to be found These must be four feet high and six wide The miners propped the passage with timber and soapstone but the props did not prove to be strong enough for the superincumbent superincum-bent mass of soggy earth News of the accident soon spread and a great crowd gathered about the mouth of the pit where the workmen were fishing out the almost al-most exhausted and nearly drowned men who were alive at the bottom of the shaft Many a wife or daughter daugh-ter knelt on the ground and prayed fervently for the safety of her loved one and as the heart rending character char-acter of the calamity appeared the grief or me survivors was outspoken spoken and painful to behold A wife bent over the shaft asher as-her husband climbed up the ladder with the dead body of his son in his arms She extended her hand to receive him and was disappointed and doomed to greater grief for the man worn out by the desperate struggle for life and for the body of his son fell back into the pit and was a lifeless corpse He has not been seen since Mrs McQuestion whose husband and three sons were burned upon learning the news was prostrated and now lies in a precarious condition withhermind permanently injured Instances of a pathetic nature multiply The seeker for them will find rich harvest har-vest here Kansas City Mo 17 All trains were stopped tonight on account of washouts |