CREMATED IN A MINE.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 25, 29 July 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

CREMATED IN A MINE.

f Sax Antonio (Texas), June 4. f A despatch from Piedras Nogras. 1 Mexico, says that the Fuente coal- ■ mines, located ten miles below the 1 Texas border, were tho scene of a ' terrible holocaust last evening in ' which twenty miners lost thoir lives.' ' The fires have now been suppressed, f The mines presented an appalling • spectacle when the correspondent • arrived there this morning. A large - number of women and children were 3 gathered about the mouth of the still 1 smoking drift, momentarily expecting ? to see the shrivelled corpses of their 3 husbandsand fathersbrought to light. 1 Don Manuel Valdez, Judge of the s First Precinct from Piedras Negras, T arrived early upon the scene, and imJ mediately ordered the arrestof George ' Spenee, the superintendent of the 1 mines, who was at the time of his - arrest leading the men in working 1 to rescue the entombed miners. With I characteristic stupidity they arrested ~ the man who could do the most to9 wards remedying the affair. 9 The fire was caused by the careless - J ness of a boy who attended to one of 1 the inside doors, in allowing the i linen with which the door was covered 9 to ignite, and then running out of the 1 mine without alarming the miners, fc As nearly as can be ascertained from ■ going over the roll of workmen there } were about twenty-eight or thirty 1 men in the mine at the time of the • fire. Up to the present only two 3 corpses have been recovered. Judge 3 Valdez stopped them continuing the 3 work this evening, and the other 1 corpses cannot therefore bo recovered » until nine o'clock to-morrow. It is 1 known that none of those who were " in the mine can be alive, so it is only 1 a question of recovering their bodies 3 for identification and decent burial.