Tank's Poetry
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united states mine rescue association
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Tank's Poetry |
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Between one and two o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd, while fourteen men and one mule were at work in the mine, the entrance to the slope was discovered to be on fire. Four of the alarmed men in the mine rushed out through the slope, getting considerably burned in so doing, but all of them will recover. The remainder of the men could not effect their escape, and were of course smothered in the slope. A telegram was sent to Ravenna for assistance in extinguishing the flames, and the entire fire department of that place, accompanied by the Mayor, promptly responded the summons. The President of the Company was on the way to Cleveland from the mines when the fire broke out, but was recalled by a telegram which reached him at Ravenna, he returned, and has been doing everything within the limits of possibility which duty and humanity demanded in the premises. The people of the entire surrounding country, with sympathies keenly alive to the requirements of the occasion, flocked to the scene by scores and by hundreds, and also rendered timely and energetic assistance in such directions as it was needed. As soon as the case would admit, efforts were resolutely made to reach the imprisoned victims but so much mischief had been done by the flames, which were not fully subdued until Thursday afternoon, that the progress was necessarily slow and discouraging, and it was not until Thursday noon that the first body was reached. By Thursday night six more were recovered, afterwards the others were found. Those known to be deceased:
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