ENTOMBED ED ALIVE IN BURNING MINE MINEE E Four pour Hundred Miners Imprisoned in Darr Mines of Pitts Pius Pittsburg Pittsburg burg Coal Co at Jacobs Creek Their Fate Unknown Fire Raging Inside Prevented AH AU Attempts at t Rescue Force of Explosion Convulsed the Surrounding Country What Caused It Is Not Nol Known Whether Any of Men Have Escaped Alive an Uncertainty at Present Time I III Pa Dee Dec 18 i j miner are entombed In hi Ui the I i nog of ti Coal cosi cOIn com or t Jacob Creek on the r I hS v 1 IS miles wet west of ot here her Of Ot it iti I American the theT rh 11 i i rutty fully are ere fro T ing ug principally Hungarians A Ax At AtI t tI x pi oil on hook sh ok the vicinity of oft II t lit sli Jl 11 1150 SO and announced tn to all alt th 11 rounding minding community that thai a ai i of ot some MOle kind had oc Ii 1111 n under the Short ke began to eue In n heavy lanvy from the mouth of or the mine minei i Is of the Mop variety The Theof Thet i r I of t the mine was WIlS wrecked anti and andi tL tb i In connection with withIn tl In i which wee was discovered to bo he n inside prevented effectually up t to tn any attempt at rescue of ofU i U II i men building of ot the Federal Supply Yo v adjacent to 10 the entrance to tot toi tl t i liP f was slightly damaged by the tha Ih I f the th shock chock causing the l k and anti some eone of oC It Ita windows I h hg g those thoe Imprisoned In tn the mine minei ai I i hi i 18 OC IL and end two tire lire I i omit of the force fete of the ex cx r Ij I which rent the Interior of the thet II t id old the presence of firs fire 11 with t ked kt d condition of the mouth of P it la Is not thought there la II fl 11 hance for tor the men tn Jt meld Inside 1 i i 1111 they have survived or wilt will w IB 10 i one of ot the uncertain tl n of ofin in nt hour There Is no means more than to 10 gue is 18 8 gas gall or coat coal dust duet that ex ux exi i o i nc no of ot the th explosion la ix on the tha thai f p 1 i Lake Erie Brie railroad side lido or 1 L river Jacobs Creek on en the main line of ot the Balti Balu Baltimore Baltimore more mete Ohio railroad rall d Is Ie acre the Ue river It to Ii 40 mile miles east t of and ami 18 13 miles mU w est ot of COMPANY Pittsburg Dec Deo De 11 Word ef of the ex reached the local beet I office of the Coal COlLI company compell tn iii 1 this thu th city eUr tIt early ri this thie afternoon The dispatch gave ni no n details further then than that an si explosion had occurred at Darr 1 rr mine between end anti The omelet of that company tat that thai the Ih mine wan wu one of ot the largest and Ind mas equipped qUiPped with the most moat mod modern modern modem ern em appliances appliance The Th Coal compan mines mine an u at on both bOlh sides side of at the river rh The coal oal mined In this tbt debt In used ud for coking purposes purpose It is I a part of ot the original coke eld The mlp In this section cllon are aMI said Mid to contain inalterable erable gas S ge The officials npr but little hope of the llo of ot the unfortunate men mn M the mouth of or the shaft I la Is tilled with rocks meks and nd earth ana th the passageways an ur said laid to be badly obstructed Within a few minutes minute after atter the ex explosion the mouth of or the pit nit waa wn sir sur surrounded rounded by relatives and friend of the entombed men The nc ns were wre most molt pitiful The Tue smoke emoke and lid name n mee Issuing from the made It Impossible to enter and nd the wives and anti children were frantic effort ellort I is being made mede to subdue the fire fino but mit It wa welt burning so eo fierce ly I that no headway could be made It Is I stated that the superintendent of the tha mine In Is one of hoes Imprisoned that he h went Into Inlo the mine to Rate Nat UK Its condition and was wall caught In the explosion MO so IEN VICTIMS Vet Wt Newton Newlon Pa Dec De 19 Reports Ort of or the disaster at the Darr Parr mine re received r here are to the effect that there are nearer boo 00 men In the mine than COO Physicians Ih left here liec h e for tor the scene shortly after atler 2