| Show terrible disaster february 4 ot the terrible coalmine coal mine disaster caused by a gai at the broto shaft at in county were received here today to day and ln blut alic was even inore honl ble than at drat reported Is a little la the eldh 0 the ercal coil beds ot chesterfield county and alio mine in which the disaster look place Is about two miles als the scenes and incident about the mouth 0 the pit morning were heartrending heart rending nearly every family in lie I 1 lace lia lost a relative by the and alio snowstorm snow storm ot lilt night a crowd of men women and children were crouched about abo mouth ot the tat il lait li it from cold and calling for their forrd ones and that aid bo them all the inon iloK brondi of irom the leavo been pouring into the place and all seemed intent upon the abul pit and definitely the fate ot tho ie who experienced minar tay that the thirty two in the pit arc undoubtedly dead but iho children do up hope and there are not to be found those who can brea the terrible truth to them yet ahli at eleven the farst attempt to reach the bottom ol 01 the shaft was made A large number of volunteered to go down la the bucket mot of them were young and hanly men and acro prepared to atko their lives in their handia the older miners told them thit tho carbonic ga till lingered in the pit and they the dingan ol 01 the under taklo as no connection had yet been mado with the bottom ot the shaft three stepped from the crowd and insisted upon col in the bucket sir dodde abo superintendent of the pit was one of them they were let down carefully and after coln down feet gave the to be pulled p the result of their chewed that at ecat forty feet ot the brattice work in the nine was torn up they discovered no gaa like many horrors this one ha to bring forward another evidence of alio llio devotion of boman A rodn woman lint nineteen years ct age elvins 1 manchester was betrothed to anc of alie alc limb of this this looming n ben tha reached manchester of the explosion alio at once started to walk to the a distance of thirteen miles from manchester the ground being covered with six indies of snow and the wind blowing drifts 5 |
