People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — DEATH IN A MINE. [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN A MINE.

Result of an Explosion of Fire Damp in Austria-Silesia. Treppau, Austrian Silesia, June 18.—A terrible disaster, involving great loss of life, is reported from Karwin. It is o flieially reported that 180 miners were killed and twenty fatally hurt. An explosion took place at 10 o’clock Thursday night in a pit of the Franziska mines and resulted in the death of 120 miners. The first explosion was almost immediately followed by a series of others, in the mines, the most disastrous of the latter b# ing iu the Johannes pit, where many miners were killed. A rescue party of ten men, which descended into one of the pits at 5 o'clock in the morning, also perished. The ventilator shafts of Several of the pits were destroyed and fire spread in all directions. Assistance has been sent from all directions.