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Show SCENES OF HORROR. The Head and Dying lirought From the Mine Bodies Horrihly Mangled. M Ai.i.istek, I.T., Jan. P. The excitement ititensilicd almost to insanity because of the I mine explosion shows no abatemtnt. All day yesterday and today 5000 people were around the shaft of the mine, crowding, gesticulating and shrieking. I'p to 2 o'clock this morning forty-eight dead bodies had been taken out of the mine, anil 100 injured, fifteen of whom died before morning. The remaining eighty-Are miners arc laying at their homes swathed in cotton and vaseline This morning tiie company ordered sixty-five, sixty-five, and local undertakers a carload of coffins. cof-fins. All the mines in the vicinity have shut down and the miners and. their families are at Krehs to aid in the work of rescue and to perform the offices for tho dead , and to relieve re-lieve the sufferings of the wounded. Everybody is helping with the work of rescuo with the exception of the negroes. Some time ago the white, miners refused to work with the negroes. This morning a number of negroes went to Krebs and assisted as-sisted in the work in only a half-hearted way, and one of their number was heard to say it served the miners right to have been killed. The words passed from mouth to mouth and the indignation and fury of the miners knew no bounds. The I'nitcd States deputy marshal anticipating trouble was on hand with a posse and drove the colored men from the place at the point of Winchesters. Winches-ters. As body after body was removed from the ground the women, crazed with despair, would throw themselves in front of the shaft in their efforts to determine at once whether it was that of a father, brother or husband. Time and time again were the women pressed back from the mouth of the shaft, but as the work of rescue proceeded the same scene was re-enacted. It was almost impossible to reeogni.e any resemblance to human form in the bodies of many of those rescued, heads, arms, hands, legs and feet in many Instances being torn from the trunks. Their clothes were cither partially or entirely burned away and in a good many eases the flames had literally roasted almost all the tlesh on the body. The dead were taken to tho blacksmith shop near the main shaft where a morguo was improvised impro-vised and the living taken to their homes. The crowd vacilated between tho shaft and the blacksmith shop all day." |