Bemaruai fltcyan Bellefonte, Pa., December 13, 1907. Awful Disaster in Two Collieries at Monongah, W. Va our TAKING THE BODIES Monongah, W. Va., Dec. 10.—A total of 78 bodies had been brought from the two wrecked mines at Mononga. Res- «ue work while slow is progressing oo smoothly and as rapidly as due pre- caution for the rescuers would permit. The fire which caused a suspension of 1escue work in mine No. 8 was ex- | tinguished. Scenes of touching sadness were caused by the burial of the recovered dead and the pitiful actions of rela- tives of the entombed victims. The company issued a statement in which the claim is made that later de- velopments lead the officials to believe | there were only 260 men in the mine when the explosion occurred. The | statement, however, is believed to be | purely conjecture and no one who is familiar with conditions here takes it | seriously. It is insisted by miners of | the vicinity that 406 men were checked | off as entering the two mines last Fri- day morning and in addition to that number there were many having duties | in the mine who are’ not under the check system. Five men hovering between life and death from awful bruises sustained and the deadly gases inhaled are in a temporary hospit:l. The explosion occurred shortly af- ter the men had gone to work in the two mines affected. These mines are | Nos. 6 and 8 of the Consolidation Coal | company, located on opposite sides of the West Fork river, at this place, i , are located in Fairmount and Clarks- Cumberland, Md. Many women believe their husbands or sons will be stiil found alive and refuse to leave the vicinity of the mine. When bodies are carried from the mine these women become almost fnsane, screaming and pacing back and forth, and calling aloud the names of their loved ones. One woman over- heard a man say that most of the bod- jes were badly mutilated. With a piercing shriek, she fell to the ground and was carried to her home nearby. She is still unconscious and her condi- Sion is critical. The mines are owned and operated by the Consolidated Coal company, of Baltimore. General! offices are located m Baltimore, and the operating offices ere in Fairmount, W. Va. The company is said to be one of the largest oper- geting in the bituminous coal industry | in the United States. It is capitalized at | $20,000,000, and has in operation about 100 producing plants, Its largest mines Va.; and at burg, W. Somerset, Pa., DEAD AT THROTTLE Engineer Ran Train Past a Danger Signal and Caused Wreck. Allentown, Pa., Dec. 9—Under con- ditions which seem to indicate that he was dead at the throttle, Calvin Frederick, an engineer on the Lehigh Valley railroad, ran his locomotive past a danger signal near Parryville, Carbon county, and caused a wreck in which Richard Miller and Cyrus Young, brakemen, were dangerousiy scalded. Frederick was engineer on a wes: bound freight train, which crashed in- to the rear end of another freight. Frederick's locomotive was overturn- ed, the caboose into which it crashed was demolished and a freight car was wrecked, Miller and Young were scalded by steam from the locomotive, Frederick's body was scalded, and his hand was on the throttle of the loco- motive. The body was in such a posi- Venerabie Ruler of Sweden Dies Sur- rounded by Family. recognizing those about him. The queen was grief stricken becanse he could not bid her farewell. At times there were faint signs of conscious per- ceptions as the attending physicians brought some temporary relief to the patient sufferer, In the palace court yard in the dim cold grey mist of the morning stood a crowd of school boys, King Oscar's most devoted friends. Here they had stood for hours, blue and shivering, watching the palace flag staff. There, also, gathered many old men and wo- men in rags. such as the king had al- ways stopped to comfort with mild | words and zenerons alms when he met | them in the parks or streets, their | faces tear-stained because their belov- | ed king and benefactor was dying. Sud- | denly the flag droped to half mast | and a wail of misery and sorrow arose. | The cld folks clasped their hands and | prayed and wept alond, and the school boys’ lamentations were pitiful to hear. | In a room near the death chamber | the first marshal of the court read to the cabinet a draft of the new King’s | proclamation to the Swedish people. | In an ante-chamber high officers and | officials discussed the probable policy | of the new king. One by one the ships SOUNTRY BOWED WITH GRIEF Stockholm, Dec. 9.—Oscar II, king of Bweden, died Sunday. The death of the venerable monarch occurred in the royal apartments of the palace, where, surrounded by members of his family, including tne aged Queen Sophia and the crown prince, Oscar Gustave, and high ministers of state, the inevitable end had been awaited, while outside the palace great crowds stood with bowed heads and tearful eyes long af- ter the announcement came of the death of their well beloved sovereign. The whole country is bowed with grief, for King Oscar was something i in the harbor and the buildings | throughout the city displayed the flag | at half mast and the people soon | crowded the streets near the palace, but all spoke in whispers, bearing wit- ness to the Kindliness of him who had departed and to the love they bore him. ! In the death chamber knelt the heart. | broken quecn and gathered about her | were her children, grandchildren and | great-grandchildren, praying for | ! strength to bear their great affiiction. The church bells began to tol! and the minute guns boomed. All Sweden mourned its great loss. Murdered Over Division of Spoils. Whecling, W. Va., Dec. 10.—George Zamfert, a well known Italian of Mar ting Ferry, Ohio, was shot and in- stantly killed, and John Stefen is in custody accused of the crime. Zam- Oscar and Sophia. more than a ruler of his peopie and had endeared himself to them as an inti- mate and personal friend. When the flag on the palace was dipped to half i but merged in their underground workings by a heading and on the surface by a great steel tipple and bridge. | scious and ran past the danger signal, There is much speculation as to Shortly before the accident Frederick the cause of the explosion, but the; had complained that he had a peculiar most generally accepted theory is pain in his head, but he did not ask | that it resulted from black damp. It relief and the members of the crew is believed that a miner attempted to thought he was all right beciuse they | set off a blast which blew out and ig- did not hear from him. nited an accumulation of this deadly Frederick was 38 years of age and gas, and that this in turn ignited the was engaged to be wnarried on Christ- coal dust, a highly inflammable sub- 6 mas day to Miss i.aura Reimensnyder, stance found in greater or less quan- | of Williamsport. All the men live in tion that he could easily have extri | cated himself, and it is believed he was dead at the throttle or uncon- mast there was a moan of anguish from the assembled multitude and many of them cried “our dear old king is dead.” | The succession to the throne of Swe- den now passes to Oscar Gustave Adol- phe, Duke of Vermland, the oldest son , of the late king. At a meeting of the counci! of state the new king took the oath of allegiance under the title of | Gustave V, and adopted the motto “with the people for the fatherland.” | The princes then took the oath of alle- | | glance and the new monarch accepted | ing instant death. fert and Stefen were friends, and ae- cording to the story of the police they were implicated in the hold-up of two Syrians. They could not agree over the division of the spoils, it is | said. and during the controversy Zam- fert is said to have angrily remarked that he was going home for a gun. Stefen thereupon answered, it is said, “Don’t wait that long; I will shoot you now.” and suiting his action to his words, drew a revolver and shot Zam- fert twice through the stomach, caus: tity in all the West Virginia mines. Interior of Mines Wrecked. The explosion affected both mines, | and so far as now known appears to have done about as much damage in| one as in the other. Evidencing the ! terrific force of the concussion, props in the eniry of No. & mine, support ing the roof, were not only shattered and torn from their position, but were blown out of the entry and to the op- | posite side of the river. Other evi: dence of the awful force is shown in| every section of the mines that nos | been reached by the rescuers. Huge quantities of coal and rock have heen | loosened and hurled ‘ato every open- ing, and all of the unaerground struc- ture is wrecked beyond semblance of its original shape. All of the headings leading off from i the main entry are being cut off by | canvas and barricaded as fast as they are reached by the relief workers, so that the innermost workings of the | mine may be given the benefit of the ventilating system to sustain any that i may he yet living and make possible | an early exploration of these work- | ings. Along the hills, far back from the | main cpening of mine No. 8, there are | a number of openings into the mine, | and to these hundreds of relatives and friends of the entombed men franti- cally rushed in the vain hope that their loved ones might find escape through these channels or that they might be more readily reached and released. So far as known, however, not a single man escaped this way, and the would- be rescuers are helpless at these points, | for out of each entry there is pouring i a volume of poisonous gas which no | human being can face for more than a few minutes at a time, The condition of the bodies thus far recovered is horrible. Many are dis- membered, some are fearfully crush. ed and the rest are blackened and burned beyond recognition. The body | of J. M. McGraw, pit boss, and one | of the best known mining men in West Virginia, was recovered far mine No. 8. It was headless and otherwise disfigured, identification having. been made by the clothing and the shoes he wore. A score or more of men of the res. ening parties are in a critical condi tion from inhaling poisonous gas. Sev. eral of them are expected to die. One of these men, John Gabbert, was car ried from (he mine almost a raving maniac. His Inngs were filled with as, which produced a condition simi- iar to one insane, and the services of four doctors were necessary to hold him while doctors attended him. There were many instances of quiet heroism shown by the men who have gone into the mines to rescue the hod- fes of their fellow-workmen. Unusually Pathetic Scenes. The scenes round about the entries to the mines and throughout the town are even more pathetic and heartrend- ing than those which usually attend a mine disaster because of a larger pro- portion of American and Americanized foreigners than are usually found in a purely mining seitlement. Wives and mothers and sweethearts together with children and members of the stronger sex move from place to place, vainly seeking information and making no at- tempt to conceal the grief that over- whelms them. But no news can be given them, and such as they do get is bad. | i { i | i i i { i { { They jand a half when their bodies were | found. Their mother died by suicide Lehighton. BOILER EXPLOSION | Three Men Killed and One Injured at Allentown. Allentown, Pa., Dec. 10.—One of a battery of nine boilers in the drawing department of a local plant of the American Fteel & Wire company, a No. 6 Sterling boiler, blew up, killing two men instantly and injuring two others, one of whom died three hours later, The dead: John Cyrns, aged 27, mar- ried; Simon Pollomisky, aged 21, sin- gle, and Francis Matula, aged 20, sin- gle, The injured: George Kereichler, aged 30, married. The latter two were cut and scalded. They were removed to the Al atown hospital. The accident has shnt down the en- tire mill, throwing 800 men out of em- ployment. The cause is unknown. It was the lower plate of the mud drum that gave way. The force of the explosion was upward and southward. The boiler house was shattered. The drums of the exploded boiler were hurled through a frame storage house, crushing it like an egg shell, and they are lying in the Litfle Lehigh river, a hundred feet away. KILLED GRANDCHILDREN Woman Stupefied Little Ones and Then Drowned Them. Somerville, Mass, Dec 10.—Mrs. Emery Huntley walked into a police station and announced that she had killed Ler two grandchildren. The bodies of the children, Raymond Shomo, 6 years old, and Caroline Hunt- ley. 4 years old. were found shortly afterward at Mrs. Huntley's home. had been stupefied by {illumi- nating gas and then drowned in a bath. tub. The children were on a visit to their grandmother. They were brother and | sister, who on the death of their pa- | rents a few years ago had been adopted, the girl by her mother's uncle, Charles J. Huntley, of Boston, and the boy by his father's brother, a man named Shomo, who lives some- where in the west. Mrs. Huntley is 45 years of age. It is alleged that she has been considered mentally weak for some time past. The children had been dead about an hour shortly alter the decease of her hus- band. Missing Man's Body Found In Canal. Allentown, Pa., Dec. 9. — The body of Miles G. Ott, who left home last week after leaving a note, in which he intimated that he intended to end his life, was found in the Lehigh ca- nal below the city. The body was found after the canal had been drain- ed Ott’s father and his grandfather committed suicide. Slayer of Husband Gets Ten Years. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 7.—Knidsu How- filso, a Hungarian woman on trial here for murdering her husband by setting him afire while he slept, with. drew her plea of not guilty and plead- ed guilty to second degree murder. She was sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary. | arch were passed In unconsciousness | and up to the end he gave no sign of i the homage of the state officials. The last hours of the expiring mon- -—Subseribe for the WATCHMAN. The Cen tury Magazine. The Century Magazine, PAINT YOUR HOUSE In attractive colors and it will stand out from its neighbors. ° OUR EXPERIENCE In combining colors harmoniously is at your serv- ice, with Pure White Lead and Oil to back us up. THE NEW WALL PAPERS We have can be made to give many novel forms of decoration. We'd be glad to suggest original treatment for your house—They need not be ex- pensive. 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