SICKENING DETAILS OF THE MINE EXPLOSION AT ALMY.
Salt Lake City despatch of Jan 25 : —News of the Almy di3aster is exceedingly slow in coming in. The best account received so far is a letter written the day after by a son to his fether in this city, which says : The explosion which occurred here last night about 11.30 o'clock was most awful, and it sickens me when 1 think of it, There were only thirty men in the mine, two of whom were blown out of it, one man being thrown uearly half a mile out of the mine. When found his body was burned to a crisp. The other was blown to pieces, the head, one leg and the trunk of the body only having beeu found. I picked up part of his skull. The other eleven men were buried up in the mice, and we can't get down because of the firedamp. Fire and flames issuing from the mouth of the slope continued to come out for three minutes, and during that time there was a hissing noise which was deafening in the extreme. No one can realise the amount of gas thai was in the mine. The flames went up in the air, as near as I can estimate, 600 or SOO feet. They extended over a half a mile from the mouth of the slope, and during that time timber, rock, iron wheels and cars, coal and all .'manner of debris were flying through the air. Rocks wera thrown clear through the houses, and women were fleeing in thoir night clothes, almost crazy with fear. The whole earth seemed shaking. 1 conld not stand on my feet, and was knocked from one place to another. My brother Williams's house was smashed. James Hendry and I slept in a room there, and rock flew througn the roof of the house, broke the cupboard and smashed a bunk, but we escaped without a scratch. Five or six persons have been hurt in their houses, but none seriously. lam satisfied with the mines, no more of them for me. The bodies of six of the 13 victims of the coal-mine explosion at Almy, Wy, T., which occurred on Tuesday night, have been recovered from the mine.
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 141, 13 February 1886, Page 4
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378SICKENING DETAILS OF THE MINE EXPLOSION AT ALMY. Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 141, 13 February 1886, Page 4
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