Show NOT A MAN ESCAPED A Pennsylvania Mine Horror of Appalling Appall-ing Proportions Mine explosion Over 100 men instantly instant-ly lalledl Such was the appalling dispatch dis-patch flashed over the country the other day from Greensburg Pa And further research has but increased the magnitude I of the calamity for ninetyseven victims have been identified and ten more rccover din d-in astate which forbids identification The whole region seems to have gone wild is the report of the operators and no wonder for there is reason to believe that the accident was the result of negligence The officials at first asserted that the mine was carefully inspected by the fire boss and that gas was never known in the workings and in proof thereof produced the usual certificate in printed form that the working places in the Mammoth mine are in fit condition for the workers therein I Although this certificate begins VeI I the undersigned it has but one name affixed af-fixed that of William Sneath He attended at-tended a ball the night before and left it at 233 a m to make his examination The men went to work at 5 a m and at 9 the explosion occurred There are comments as to the condition of the fire boss at the time he left the ballroom and regret is expressed ex-pressed that in order to lessen expenses the company had lately dismissed Pete Lowry the assistant mine boss leaving but one man to do the work of two I Superintendent Keighly of the Mammoth Mam-moth shaft is in a peculiarly unfortunate condition as it was under his superintend S THE BREAKER OF MAMMOTH SHAFT ence that the recent Dunbar disaster occurred oc-curred The popular frenzy was so great that District Master Workman Robert W Watchorn issued a special address to the miners against violence and other labor leaders have been appealed to Superintendent Superin-tendent Keighly is the man who shot Michael Kane the Molly Maguire leader at Youngstown O some years since 1 The legal authorities declare that Mr Keighly is not to blame for this accident and there is a general demand upon the legislature for more stringent laws on inspection in-spection Of the identified dead thirtytwo leave families There isli large proportion of Polish and Hungarian names in the list and of most of the single men nothing whatever is known Eightynine have been buried in the Catholic cemetery at i Scottdalc the others being taken elsewhere else-where by friends Not one man in the mine at the time escaped |