Fayette County PA Archives News.....Braznell Mine Incident January 4, 1900
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The Fulton County News. (McConnellsburg, Pa.) January 4, 1900
FOUR MORE BODIES FOUND.
Pit Boss Says Naked Lights Were Used In Braznell Mine.
Brownsville, Fayette, Pa.. (Special.) Four more bodies have been recovered from the
s, near this place, increasing to 10 the number of persons known to have been killed
in Saturday's disaster. The bodies have not been identified. 
The mine officials admit that two or more bodies are still in the mine, but
representatives of the Slavonic Society have made a house-to-house canvass and
report that eight of their number alone are in the wreck, and how many others they
do not know.
That naked lights and unlocked safety lamps were used in the mine was officially
confirmed by Pit Boss Thomas Jones, who made a statement to that effect. Mr. Jones
was asked if it was true that on last Tuesday morning he issued a general order that
the miners could dispense with safety lamps. 
Some of the families of the dead miners are in suffering condition, and provisions
are being sent out by the Brownsville merchants, as well as from Uniontown.
The fact that last Saturday was pay day at that mine and that there were no empty
wagons to load, accounts for many not going into the mine that morning. Had the
accident occurred any other day there would have been more than 100 men in the mine,
and the result would have been even more appalling than it is. Some of the bodies
were removed to their homes and buried.
Little Albert Mosse, who died after being rescued, lived only a few steps from the
shaft. He went to the window Saturday morning and looked out, saying to his father:
"Papa, I guess there is no use of me going to work this morning, there is no
loading." The father said Albert had better go and help him feed the mules. They
both started out together and never returned.
The excitement caused by the terrible accident has driven all thought of the holiday
festivities from the homes of all who live in the neighborhood, even those who have
no friends killed. The search for the bodies still goes on.

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