Punxsutawney Spirit, 1891-02-04

              WHITE-CAP INFAMY. S:i0.i>l>0 lu siSiclit llrnlm. IN AN EXPLOSION. FULL SHIFT OF MINERS MEET DEATH To Ho Good It Is Never TooLate VOL. XVIII. PfWXSUTAWNHT, PA., "WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1891. SECY WINOOM DEAD. NO 35 Secretary of the Treasury Expires at a Banquet. 106 BODIES FOUND. HEART DISEASE WAS THE CAUSE. THE CAUSE A MYSTERY. Horrible Scenes In the Workings of the Frlek Colliery. ND NEVER TOO LATE TO BUY an Overcoat if the Price is Low Enough. , ioo dreae of i lively color. Her bead wti draped after the Hungarian fashion in ■ heavy red thaw],and her intense suffering wii marked in every feature of ber face. After ahe had been taken from hnr dead hatband ahe disappeared for an boar. When ahe returned ►lie looked more ealm. Sbe walked to the morgue, where her husband's body had been prepared for burial. Sbe looked over the long row of disfigured faces until in the l«gt coffio she recognized her husband. She stooped and kissed the face again, murmured a prayer, and, while she swayed ber body in keeping with the doleful wail, she placed a praj er book on the dead man's breast, kissed the rosary she placed in bis hands and oideied the casket to be sealed nnd sent to Grceusburg where it was biuied just at nightfall this evening. She did not aocuiupany the re mains to Gieensbnrg. She watched the cofllu being plaood on the Greeusburg train. Her ilrj, sad eyes watched the train as it pulled away. She turned to a female compauion, and in a tone akin to hopelets misery, remarked: "He was all 1 ever had.'' Her sorrow was too keen for tears. Hut Mrs. Shrynke's was not the only sad case seen here today. The Mammoth plant embraces 509 ovens, one of the largest plants in the coke region, hut it is hard of access. It is situated near the United Works, whore an explosion recently destroyed the entire shaft. The coffins have already been ordered for eighty persons. The only man who escaped from the fatal mine was Mine Foreman Eaton. Among those killed are John Beverage and James BoleB, formerly of this place. paper will shortly be circulated to obtain money in support of the unfortunate families.Each Deemed ibaotlwd, almost dszsd with trouble. So far M eu be learned sixty wires and families are left penniless by tbe catastrophe, and in some oases absolutely bread less, for tbe mine has not keen working its fall force for some time. Every means possible will be resorted to in order to supply tbe widowed mothers with the neoeasaries of life. The Frick Company will be liberal in this direction and it U understood that a subscription A If HI lAffe IflPftl IflllCILI th* »ln®. Once the*e they were belpleae, UvtK IUU MEN MLLtlfl oowawd on tbeooal tonka wrlngta* their hand* and trying aa best they conld to comfort each other. Several women fainted and were left to lie there unattended except by their weeping children. We have said before that we have intended to close out our entiro stock of ovarcots, and that is just what we intend to do. Our stock of Overcoats have been greatly reduced, this being a splendid winter for selling heavy suits and Overcoats, but nevertheless W9 still have some excellent values in Overcoats that VTe are closing wit at cost. A Mother DtokkoiI From Home iiikI Whipped into Insensibility In the Presence of her Children. : Winter: Suit : Department met with the same fate as the Overcoats. Some people may think this only an advertisement to humbug somebody; but our past history of doing just what we say and advertising just what we mean to do will bear us out in the assertion that we never advertised anything that we did mot do. OYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING EN'S AND BOYS'UNDERWEAR prices that will astonish and surprise everybody. We dont buy gords to keep, and as we will go east next month to buy our sprfng stock, we mean to get rid of what we have 011 hands to make room for spring goods. you need anything in this line you can have it at cost. We would rather loose money on it now than next year, and our experience has taught us that there is no money in carrying goods over srotu one season to another. en's Boots and Siioes ruber boots, there is no better. Pribes the lowest. beautiful lsne to select from, the J. T. Wood shoes and L- Cande Goods ! HATS AND CUPS! shirts, neckties; white shirts, laundrieti and unlaundried, E. Wcollars and cuffs, gloves, hosiery, ctc. ATS AND CAPS i Furnishing* Thi-ir fa cob were swollen ami <! ir.torto«l ami their hands clinched, showing plainly the desperate fight they hud made for lil'e. The tiro bad by this time passed on to the further workings and the relief party pretsed forward to the spot wli- re tho tsplosion took place. A number of bodies' r rather portions of them, weto iouud lying in every direction. The tire had done its work. Tim bodies were charred and blackened and in anmecise* burned t.i a crisp, crnlublhtg to dust ar< the t( iu h ot' the res ouera. At, tho time the explosion occurred the force of men were at, work. What the ex act number is cannot be learned. Super inteiident Reighley, who iiad charge of the Dunbar mines at the time of the explesion there, is iu charge of the Prick mine, lie at once dispatched messengers, for help, and a little time a largo number' of phynioianH wero present, all of whom volunteered to do what, they could, lielief parties weie organized and tho tool house fitted up as a hospital for the reception of tho injured. RKMK1> PARTIES AT WORK An entry was 'fleeted and a relief party at once descended to do its work. The Hcet'o in the mine was in every tense a liorrible one. Tho props in t.iio - tunnel were bodily torn away utul iu many places blocked t he tunnel and had to be cut away. Penetrating as n«ir as possible in the di reetion of the lire a largo number of bodies wero discovered. As the tire passed into the oliler workings the gas would leuite and a series of light reports wtro lizard giving warning that the fire was spreading. The machinery by which the huge fans used to force air in the mines are worked was uninjured by the explosion, and as soon us the fumes of the escaping gits moderated sufficiently to permit, it, they were called into rtquisition, and air was rapidly foroed into the mine. It was thought that it would ena ble search parties to enter and begin at once the work of rescue. In this however a failure was evident fur a time, and the tire burned fiercer I hail ever in the farther portions of the mine. Scottdalk, Jan. 27.—Ad explosion of fire-damp oconrred this morning shortly after 9, in the Mammoth shaft by which 100 miners were instantly killed and a large number injured. The explosion is supposed to be tlis result of tbo ignition of a miner's oil lamp, bat whether thisis tme or not will never be known, as not a man is left alive who,were working in tbo immediata vicinity of the explosion. Those who were not killed are in a critical condition and many deaths are momentarily expected. To add te tho horror of the occasion fire broke out immediately in the workings Starting from the place where tho explosion occurred it passed along the tunnel into tho laruer workings the flames increasing in volume about over.v hundred yards, or where the gas had accumulated. Those on the hank wero quickly alive to this new calamity, for the hot air rnshed up the main shaft forcing them back to a more retired position. KIRK ADDS TO Till! liOKKOK. The most deadly agenoy in this explosion as in every other of the kind, was the af tor damp. Almost every body yet recovered bears the evident marks of suffocation. A few men who are among the injured, realizing the awful situation, fell to the ground and the after damp passing over their heads, they esoaped its full force. Immediately after the dull roar of tha ex plosion died away tho deadly gas fumes swept up the shaft, poisoning the atmosphere to such an extent that those ou the bank were compelled to retire to a distance. MATTERED DOWN THE DOOR anil ontered the house. Mrs. Porow had left, her bed, as hail her four little children, and when tho savage brutes entered, tho children wero clinging in terror to their mother, weeping and begging piteoualy that tho men would not hurt them. With merciless barbarism the White Caps seized the woman in her night robes tore her shrieking children from her, dragged her from the house to a strip of woods on tho opposite sido of tho highway, whero they tied her faco foremost to a tree, and with stout switches literally laid open the flesh from tho shoulder to tho hips, the blood following every lick. Xo fewer than 10 licks wero given the woman, tho blows being rained upon her after she had sunk in a faint ] against the ropes that bound her to the tree. Jacob Perow, a farmer, poor but laborious and upright, had prone to Leavenworth, tho county seatot Crawford county, to visit his aged father, who was ill, leaving his wife Mary and four small children at their humblojhomo on the farm, just over tho lino in Harrison county, and intending to remain away ail night. This was on tho morning of tho 30th. At midnight of that date a gang of twenty masked men rode up to tho Perew (twelling, and dismounting marched into the yard and up to tho door and demanded admission. Mrs. Perew was in bed and refused to open the door. Then the White Caps, after firing sovoral shots from their revolvers, procured a rail and with it New Albany, Ind., .Tan. 31.—one of tho most horrible outrages that have been committed by the White Caps of Harrison and Crawford counties occurred last night in Harrison county, near the Crawford county line, about 30 miles southwest of this city. •' In all tlio history of White Cap'sm n Harrison ami (>awford counties, (Ik; whipping of Mrs-. Pcrew is tho vilest, Hie most brutally savage critii, tboy have commit ted. Tlio law is silent against them. (Irani! juries fail to indict iliem, i r when' indieted. tintit jurors, computed of While Caps nr Whiti) Cap sympathizers, clear the scoundrels or fail to agree. The result is that immigrants avoid these COttntii s ..ml mailv' <if the bettor c!iim of citizen-. in tliD White Cup districts an: moviusf to other localities, when Ihu Uw is respected and iu operation. After tbev had gone tho children went to tho house and got a knife, with which they cut tho ropes tnut bound their mother, and succeeded in gettimr her to the house. She will probablj not, recover from tho torture she passed through. The White Caps told the children that they hud whipped their mother because >h • was not pure; but nil her relatives agree, as do all who know her, that she was a woman of unspotted char actor. Tilt: VICTIM IS IWOCt'.NT. AVhilo this awful scene of demoniac savagery was going on, tho four children of the wretched woman stood by weeping and wringing their hands, and imploring tho brutes to desist, and not murder their mother. Finally, tho torturers left Mrs. Perew, apparently in a lifeless condition. links, Satchels, Valises, Rubber Coats and Mackintoshes. We will positively save you money on a I'ne Trunk. Umbrellas, fine line of late styles in Durilap, Yeoman's and Knox's hats, fur, > wool and crusli hats, fancy caps for girls and boys. Successor to North & Morris.] he Qriranal and Popular One Price Clothier CLAYTON NORTH, The d c <ii8 wUi> w< 10 after m examination IrSUuii tile jilllou i<.j{ Orlt.a-cate: "We lmr.<l>.v <«rt l'v i hat the of du.ilb w»h »• Ural, uetebal Ltm>rrU» second, ooma." When ir, was otlieii'U- announced that the tocrotary wan dead, .Sucretaiy Tracy at once wreDt to tho nnartsi, telegraph olllco ;UI'I » menage tu l'..-Md.-i,t linnirxin. i'lloimina hi in of the hu.i1 .vent and ra([in Mm;; him to onniuiutiic.ito with Mrs. WindiiiiiH d hove Imr aim t. on r.I.«• litis l». i; . ' iiii 1-ti Ni'iv Tlitrt will w'iri£ tllo 'villi * in tin- oi'y liv 7 i'■ tho innming and uot until then can any arrangement* be made i ,i i lie rniuova "1 ihn hi,ii^. Mr. Wit doni itv*p i ded to tho toast, 1 O.ir Couu'ry's Profcp.'iify Dependent up•>n tl,» timtiunitniH nl •amie'iee," dwelling cl i ll.v upon the Hiit>ji'c « of irniiHjjortfi.in in d ill mey. lie made an eloquent idea fur ■ Ito Auioiionii mmchant ma ina i.nd Wwruily u|iheld the protective poliof Hi the Hi lied atntin. ■ At\ i i reliriiig, had anuouno• d li..it ilr. Windnm Iniil only l .i .lod, a id ir. win though! by ualH dt'iM I lint i' u as s ii„ni ai it, provml I 'h, J'no S, I'.vt, ry had 1-i- i for li hi'j; Iitu - n millVtir front i' i ' ilis": an.1 i-'ii! y I st. Monday Vl tn# vim !<il liy atdjock bii li, liawt-vtr p msid .".Will • IlllOUt. I'.'llllill;; .1111 lullJU IUC Mlvenieuco.T.VKK.V <11 ']•• Itv ItKAltT DI8KAKK, A silence !<•!! «iji "i tin1 in, i. ' iv. to on IJ L few II) i il II11-.- 1 'flll'il W i I'll c :.II tj lor tinv m of Mr. Wind in. e.vory man li o t-ii .,I .-; neighbour wi th bl!>nebeil elf i ■!; 1 Death, (hat awful im'ssengt r, li.nl d< M'ti ilr i up ii •heir t.'usfc ami taken linm tin- «ruwit «me of tii - n*- tioll'« chil f l I! i ;•(•! .. "lie in dead." /' i " in is went t> the heart ft' every mm •. h.i htxrd them. Could liiey believe ii ' Tin brilli in! orator of a ft'w minutes before jglow .• . nt.hnMam, predictinghis fin: ire poli -y in 'ho tre-m-ury, was only a masi of obv. His voioa wiih forever silenced und his last word* wore for bin country. "Ho is dead !*' This ".the fe irful ait - nouueement that was sent through tho bodecked banquet hall, around which still hung like a funeral pall the smoke of the after dinner ci.jari. This was exactly at. 10:0."> l\ M , and for ti minutes tho electric shocks were applied incessantly, but without, success. At. 10:11 l'. m. Judge Arno\ canio out of ih i dish loom uud announced to the dim-re that Secretary Window, whom they hud the pleasure of hearing only a fow minutes before, had breathed his last. llltKATHKl) HIS LAST. Jiy his order the dying Secretary was carried into the dish room adjoining the banqueting hall, and there placed on a table. Messengers were hastily dispatched for electrio batteries, and as many as four were applied to his body, which was rapidly growing cold. There was an immediate rush on thepart of all hands toward Mr. Winiloin's chair, but several doctors who wore guests got there first and drove tho others back. They were Drs. A. liobinson, Dnrant, Whitney, Fisher aud Bishop. Dr. Robinson bent down and, making a close examination of the prostrate form, discovered that the heart was still beating. The speech was broken short and every eje was turned in the direction of that gentleman, ho had collapsed in his chair and was falling to the iloor. His face woa ghastly and a cry of horror aro9e among the late festive revellers. A CKY OH HOltHOli. Judge Arnoux then got up and was in the midst of his speech introducing ex- Secretary Bayard, when some oue cried "Look at Secretary Windotn !" The Sec re tar j- whs the first Speaker of tbe evening. The dinner, which begauat (i o'clock, was completed shortly after 9, and the Secretary rose to speak. He entertained the diners with a most elaborate oration and sat down amid the applause of his auditors. the scene of such profound consternation as (hat which overcame the cohipany four bouts later when tlie chief guest and principal speaker of tho occasion fell from his chair and died a few miuutes later. Tha banquet was of exceptional interest because of the prominence of its speakers and the significance of of the subjects to be discussed. The list of speakers inclnded Secretary Windoni, ex-Secretary B iyard, H. W. Linrier,Canada; Attorney General Mongley, of Nova Scotia; Secretary of tho Navy Tracy, Attorney General Miller, Miirat Hals tod, and Major McKinly and Congressman Breckenridge, of Kentucky, who serrt regrets. que* of the organization nor was it evor I New York, Jan, 29.—Secretary of the j Treasury Windom died suddenly while at lbe dinner of the Hoard oi Trade and Transportation at Dalmouico's to-night. 'Ihe tragic incident caused the immediate adjournment of that body a fenr minutes ufter 10 o'cKock. The large dining hall of Delmonico'a never presented a happier picture than at 6 o'clock this evening when the members and guests of the New York Hoard of Trade aud Trar.Hportat.ioo, more than d.">0 in number, began tbe exorcises of tbe annual bau- The liBurance fnin of .Inc. K, aud K, Brown, of Clarion aud lirookville hal n portion of the insurants in PnnXM! tawney at tlio time of our great firo of 188(j a id it is not flattery to say tlmt ' in t meats were prompt and niitistaeinrv. Every lo«s wai netted mid pit id l>y sight draft*. over *30.000 beina paid by their companies » ithin 39 days alter the fire Tn.it lire did n. t dm courage ihein and they have written wont of the uew butldimrs and stocks, Their buoi net, lias increased so iuuoI) that they have opened an oitiee in Puuxsutavrnev, in front roam of second story of ,lohu Zeitler block, and placed Wnlter S. Drown, one of the brothers, in charge. Their line comprise* the largest and bent companies doing business in the United State* 16-39 The Kev Frftnvr Limbing heard th» j a thotic prayer, a,d while he ottered coudoioi.ee aud oousnl.it ion, he led the stricken woman from the crowd, Mr». Shryuke id a Hungarian. 81m hus n lintral acquaintance with tin. K»tiliah Im guage, and is probably 40 years old. Her fact it white as marble. Shu was dressed in a olaan cal- While the ele vator lieiirinj; I lie di>ad lioily was being drawn to the suii.me she pushed through i ho er*>wd nnd \v»rt lirst to uuenver tin! blackened, eb.urtd victim. She made iu nuf" il. A low sri uiu.in foieed itself tliumgh In.r tnile, quivering lips, and, btfnro tlio rescuers could stay her, she vnesi.iauil*' liersnlf over her dead husband. Jim k1 i'n,\-IVeod miners, who had not evidenced let*iing n.l the iliiv, turned fn in the thslressii.g scene and bowed their bonds. A thnilsii.d peo pic »iw the p iiiit'ul [ icture, anil for fully flvo 111 i 1) 111 eh lei t no intruded 11 [>011 the widjws consuming gii I. I'lio dead was hers. Sim h<ul no uihui e»ie, i.nd when «bo rnao from embracing lliu distorted form of her lin*b<*nd b.le looked wildly about her and In » voiC" sweetly B"ft she chanted the C tliolie psalm, 'from the depths I cry to yon." Peter Bhryuke, whose body was the 1 »t, recovered, was ideutitied lief ore he reached the morgue. His wife, who hud been keeping watch near i ho month of t he t-ha: t, ever since the awful acohieot, ,ecogniz»d her dead husband even before the remains wero taken from the shaft, cage. She seemed tehavoa premotii'ion of flm dead body's approach. Mamraot h is the prettiest mining hamlet iu all the Connellsville region. Tho miners' homo are clattered in a vale that is surrounded by rugged hills. Tho houses are one story, uniform in const ruction, color and keeping. Tho shift house towers many feet above the miners' homes, and looks like a magnificent monument to tho great coko industry. The mines will not be started for a time at least, and while tiiey are idle tho cans > of tho disaster will be thoroughly ii,i|uired int.i. The miners ?s a, rule, take lit'l*- stock hi the proposed legislative e uuinittce to investigate the horror. Coroner Wakefield oamo here this afternoon. He impaneled as a jury Dr. H. G. Lomison, (jreensburg, foreman; ex Sheriff B. P. Beyers, Greensburg, Levi Kline, Greensburg; B. Stump, Jeannette; Hiram Snively, Acme; and M. L. Lyoipppus. The jury viewed the dead, made critical examinations of their injuries, and adjourned to meet in Greensburg next Thursday at 10 a. m. to take testimony. Coroner Wakefield says he will secure the best talent in mining circles to inqniro into the cause of the accident, and if there is any blame he will place it where it belongs. Most of of the families of the victims are beiug looked after by Superintendent Ljuoh. The accident has already cost the company in the neighborhood of $10,000 for the funerals and curing for the dead. It will likely eest. them muoh more to provide for the immediate wants of the victim's families. It is not yet definitely known how many of the unfortunate miners hoar leave widows, General Superintendent Lynch said to day that a great majority of the victims were single men, but investigations develops tho fact that at least 50 of them leave wives and families making in all about i!50 widows and orphans. Of the 100 victims only 71 have been positively identified. Tho unidentified were buried with the Hungarians at Scottdale this evening. Young wood, Pa., Jan. 28.—The full force of the Mammoth mine horror was fixed this afternoon, when the mutilated remains of Peter SLryuke were dug from under the wreckage in the pit and carried to the morgue for identification. His body was the last found. It was numbered 10C and the industrious searching parties who have beeu ou duty since the explosion left the scene of the calamity, satisfied that all tho bodies had been recovered and their melancholy work was otded. The scene at tliii writing about tiie mouth about thei all el t bailies description Following the lour of the explosion there was u sharp concussion foil for ut mast a mile around. Tlio trame shautie« of the miners ahook l.ke n» d* and it net"led uo messenger to inform the women and children of the awitil calami'y which bad befallen them. The entire population rushed to the scene of the disnster, t ciearning aud calling upon heaven for aid. Mothers took their children m their arois and, regardless of theoold, ran to the month of TttlC SCHNK ON TIIK 11ANK SIXTY liODIKS KKCUTKBKI). Sixty bodies Were quickly removed to the surface by the s.ivorul relief rnUya and theu the w.<rfc had to In. stopped. I 'm lire driving the workers In:eI; c>> the main shaft. The injured men veto all He ir the entrance to the winkings and bid thus managed to eso<p» the after- damp. They were quietly given assistance. )f kin Street, Hotel Pan tall Building, Pvjtxsvt* w#mr, 9m. ri r S? f > * i " *