Show OVER A HUNDRED DEAD EA A A. Terrible Totality I la Ia a n Coal Coa Mine lime Ine r There was WI an awful ul 1 catastrophe at Dux Du Bohemia on 1 tb One hundred and thirty coal coa mIner st at their lives as the re result re sult suit of an A cage full ful of era had ha been lowered e ca half hal way vay down Wo e shaft when the ground trembled a loud loue rumbling bUng bling report was WM heard and the cable attached to t the to cage caJe gave gare such sucha a D lurch that the tho lowering machinery machIner broke A rush of ot air aI and dirt dIr from the pits pit's mouth month I Ithe the sound of crashing timbers and the the cre cries of ot tiie the me men In the cage gave warning to those I above of the extent of ot the te disaster Help was summoned the machinery machIner was as repaired repaired re re- re- re I paired pared after a delay of half bal an hour and the I. I cage age was raised Ten of the occupants had bail hat been killed Instantly by the shock ten had i suffered fractures from which they annot cannot recover re rc recover re- re I cover corer five who lied ha broken limbs and internal injuries will wU live lve They had ha been half I by the gas rising In the shaft t and said that no man could lv live below belo I An hour bout hour later the tho superintendent of the tho thomine mine and nd five miners from the night shift I went ent down In the tho cage They w le unable to togo togo t go more more than a I hundred yards from the shaft Into the gallery galery but they found fourteen dead bodies Of the fifty men who were waiting for tor the cage ten had been killed and forty had been partially crushed by fallIng tal- tal fall fall- Ing lug timbers Umbers or halt half hal suffocated by the foul air aI A short distance from the shaft the superintendent found four dead dea bodies which bad had bam beam been crushed beyond recognition by a falling Ung I S The men who had bad been been brought up from the bottom said that afew a few feW minutes after the explosion they had beard heard cries and groans from the mouth of the gallery galery about 3 yards from the shaft There was 1 heavy tim tim- timber tm- tm ber her work at thIs Ibis place an and they believed that the men In this thI gallery hail had een imprisoned by the thc falling failing beams They believed that some forty men lad had been at nt work ork there Shortly before the cage came came down t do they tey said the thc cries cres cea ceased ed Another rescue party wc went t down at once and after three of them lisA hod ba been carried crIed back to the shaft unconscious penetrated to the c entrance trance of the gallery galer The entrance was 11 completely blocked by the wrecked wood work The Te rescue party could coull tee Leo ec several severa dead ded bodies on the other side aide of or the timbers but were ere unable to get at them and returned to the top empty It I Is believed that chat all al the men in the gallery aUer were suffocated or by the tho shock of the explosion Twelve miners who worked In the e extreme Interior of the he mine on the nIght shift shit and had not started for tor the shaft so EO soon as are arc 1 also 0 believed ed bele to t be dead All Al tope hope of rescuing alive the men men who who were ere entombed by the explosion has been abandoned An p Investigation of or the te list of reveals the tho fact th that t 10 13 men men lost lost their lives l es In the disaster as it Is I gen generally conceded that tho those not killed by the slon must hc e een suffocated by the sf after after- j m l' l h f J ry eio wi be made to t r recover cover the bodies of the tho dead Many any pitiable and rending heart scenes were witnessed al about ut the month of the tho sha shaft t when it I was wa announced by the mine officials that beyond a a shadow of doubt every everyman everyman everyman man in the mine min was as dead No explanation has yet been made as to t how the explosion occurred occurred An immense quantity of ot afterdamp afterdamp after after- damp has hl accumulated i In the mine a |