Show HUNDRED DEAD IN COAL MINIS MINE BRINGS SORROW TO MANY DEPENDENT UPON WORKERS WORKER 8 after every effort had been made madeko to extinguish flames mine Is sealed scaled up and all hope of escape of entombed men man abandoned cherry ills four hundred men and boys perished us as tho the result of a tern terrific lle explosion in the dt 81 paul mine on saturday the mine has a day shift of 0 men of these a few left the mine before the explosion occurred the others athera doubtless tiro tire dead the fire cawing causing the explosion which anay prove ono one of me greatest tragedies edies in the list of mine horrors hor rora had an origin almost trivial at pile of hay allowed to too long finally ignited the timbers of the mine and before the realized their dan eer cr the mine was filled with smoke eases bases and flames and all exit wes im possible great heroism was shown hy by ceals and residents of therry cherry these toen men who wore were outside the mine when the fire started contributed five to tho the list of the known dead by rushing into tho the mine trying to save the doomed men after every effort to extinguish tho the names had proven futile the shaft ot of the burning mine mane was sealed this ended all hopes of the escape of at the imprisoned men tho the st paul mine la Is t the only one it IH the town and provided ern employment for almost 1000 roon men among the missing are many americans americana who have bave lived in the mining section of illinois for years though the lie malo majority rity of those who may never be ha boural alive are foreign born yet nil all had their boines here or in the surrounding towns and d villages grief over ovar their probable fate has basea cast a pall aver the community |