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Show ToEi Not a Miner Escaped From the Mulga Mine Birmingham, La., April 21. Not one of the forty-one men imprisoned last night In Mulga mln. of the Birmingham Birming-ham Iron & Coal company, Is alive. This word was brought to tho surface sur-face early today to :hc waiting families fam-ilies of the victims. . When rendered unconscious from the deadly gapes of the thrift, Superintendent Super-intendent Johns of the mine, and .1 man named Bonds, .who risked his Hfo in tho rescue work, were drawn up to fresh air. The condition 01" the rescuers told the story long before the- men had leen revived The Ivatchers believed believ-ed that if tho rescuers, helmeted and protected had so narrowly escaped death, there was no hope for the workers work-ers who, without warning, had been entombed by an explosion of gas. When Johns and Bonds finally regained re-gained consciousness,' they confirmed tho gravest anticipations of the people peo-ple who for hours had waited at the mouth of the shaft to bear a word of their loved ones. "Dead, all dead," were the words of tho superintendent as he began to re-cover re-cover from tho vft'erts of the poisonous poison-ous gases. Before they had lost consciousness, con-sciousness, the rescuers had reached the first gallery. When It was learned that it was impossible im-possible to gain entrance to the mine through tho slipft because tho cages wero sprung Jir'tbe pansagc, the entrance en-trance was sealed prevent. If possible, pos-sible, the spread oftae Are. The only list of the nams of tho miners at work at tho time of the explosion ex-plosion was held by the foreman of the gang at work, who Is among the entombed. It is believed, however, there are about fifteen white men and twenty lo twenty-five nc&roes. The mine has been in operation about two years. The shaft is 350 feet deep and the fact that flames shot to height of 100 feet, leads to the belief that tho explosion occurred near the bottom of the main shaft. |