The Franklin Mine Dead Were Buried. Then the Miners Went Back Down.

The Franklin relief fund continues to grow. Employees of the Summit Lumbering Company of Eddyville contributed $21, as follows: W. O. Hanson, Carl O. Bomberg, Lottie Osborn, Bert C. Webster, Alfred Alta, William Jones, W. M. Johnson, John O. Olsen, Frank Williams, H. A. Jones and others. Beyond a check for the amount, the list of names and a brief note explaining the purpose, nothing was said, but the donation needed no comment. The 'boys' showed by their acts that their hearts were in the right place.

The following letter explains itself:

'Eddyville, Wash., Aug. 30, 1894.

To the Post-Intelligencer: A few sympathizers of the bereaved families of the Franklin mine disaster have contributed to the Post-Intelligencer relief fund to date. I will keep the list one day more. In this list is included the contribution of the employees of the Port Townsend Southern Railroad. — A. A. Booth.'

Inasmuch as the relief committee at Franklin has all the money necessary for present needs, further funds will be deposited in the First National Bank here subject to check by the committee. R. H. Irwin, the secretary, has a bank book which will show the funds. The Post-Intelligencer yesterday deposited $378.50 in the First National Bank, acknowledged as follows:

'Seattle, Wash., Aug. 31, 1894.

Received from Post-Intelligencer Company, on deposit for the Franklin Relief Fund, three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents ($378.50). — R. Fisher, Assistant Cashier, First National Bank.'

The published table of the dead, in the hands of the relief committee at Franklin, gave burial place, nationality, age and condition of family for the miners killed in the disaster. Many left wives and children; several were Italian, Welsh, Swedish or Black miners. Among the names were Frank Willis, Eli Maxwell, W. W. Jones, John Grant, Joe Dawson, H. R. Roberts, John Irvine, Joe Cassel, Jim Gibson, Eli Johnson, Andy Engdahl, John T. Page, John Anderson, William Secor, Andy Green, Joe Somers, De Camaroon, Peter Petri, Robert McCloskey, I. Van D. Jones, Peter Hay, John Harris, Joseph Andridge, Phil Demari, John K. Johnson, John Morris, John Hall, Eric Dunsmore, Charles Stevens, Jacob Olson, Frank Larson, Dan Hughes, Guiseppi Ratti, David D. Jones, Frank Jones, A. J. Jones and W. P. Jones.

The mine at Franklin is again being worked steadily. The dead being buried and the bereaved families properly cared for, the remaining 300 miners have once more turned their minds to the duty of earning their daily bread. Tuesday the mine yielded about 1,000 tons, Wednesday 1,275 tons, and in a few days more the average output will be about 2,000 tons per day. All the men remaining at the mine will be cared for and given steady employment, notwithstanding the fact that the whole north sixth level, the most extensive in the mine, is hermetically sealed and thus rendered useless for the time; it may be several months before the fire is smothered. The south sixth level contains about twenty breasts which have not been worked out. Men will be put to work in them, and the seventh level, which as yet has not been worked extensively, will be extended. The gangways on the seventh level have been extended about forty feet and forty breasts are ready to be worked, while for a long distance the gangway at present follows a vein where no breasts have yet been opened up. In about a month the miners will take up a subscription among themselves which will be added to the fund now in the hands of the relief committee.