Show THIRTEEN MINERS DROWNED IN PIT Torrent Pours Into Colliery at Evans Eva Station Pa After Cloudburst W NG G SAVES HUNDREDS r Horsemen Win Race With Raging Rag Rag- ing Flood in Redstone Valley T U Pa July 24 Caught Caugh Caught t W like rats In a trap when water rushed Into the time manway 7 of ot Superba No o 2 mines amities at Evans station three miles mites north of or Union Uniontown town this afternoon afternoon after artor- noon following a cloudburst thirteen men were ere es escaped ap d- d after ft a u most moat harrowing i ex cx- I The Tho men inca were drowned I about 1000 feet from froni the mouth of ot the mines their only avenue a of ot e escape pe Tho Time majority of ot the victims had hall large families families' and about thirty children children chil chil- dren are ale deprived of their bread win win- ners ners- The Time men urea who escaped were forted forced to half swim and halt half walk to the pit pil mouth through water ranging in iii depth from their theil waist to their necks The Thc majority of ot tho miners who escaped were knocked down own by timbers that were sent down the mine with mm-itil great velocity in time the raging cur cur- rent Several men were being carried back bacle in tho mine amine to certain death when wilen rescued by br r their companions It was stated tonight b by b officials of ot tho the Superba company compan that it will take at least sixty sIxt da lays days s 's to clear cleal the mine of oC water sater and until that time bodies must remain In the mine Superintendent B BUttermore was the first man to see seethe the time high water start in the manway manwar H lip raised the tile alarm and all the men on tire outside rushed into time the the mine yelling loudl loudly as the thc they went In that manner manner- more than half halt the miners wore saved saed The Time wives wI and families o of the time miners and drivers in the mines when the time alarm wan raised rushed to a large hole hoie holema ma made e by 11 the rushing rushing- water at the manhole manhole manhole man man- hole and threw bushes poles and amid whatever r timber thc they could commit find Into the time water to stop it Its onrush lallIng Fall lall Ing lag in ill that they thc rushed l to the thc mouth of ot the time mine but were stopped b by the time themen men who m guarded the time entrance Several SC large pumps will be placed In the mine tomorrow row and everything e Continued on Page e 2 Column THIRTEEN MINERS DROWNED IN PIT Torrent Pou Pours rs Into Colliery at Evans Station Pa Pam After 5 Cloudburst Continued from ron Page Pase One possible will be done to get the bodies bodle Tho The ThoV V water vater ter rose roso so quickly following ho tIme cloudburst that it practically do- do troyed all 1111 railroads and street rallIn rail rall- wa was In Fayette count county Will Race With ith Flood Dr Brownsville Pa July 24 Horsemen Horsemen I dashing frantically down don the Redstone today often with water up to he tIme made made a Journey of oC pine line miles In time to save the lives o of hundreds of persons at nit Smock a n ruin Ins Ins- ng village Aside from the great reat of oC water ater due duo to the time cloudburst cloudburst cloudburst cloud cloud- burst it was vas feared a huge hugo reservoir was about to let gOTo go To the hills To the hills The Tho reservoir is breaking The Tho cry caused t terror among mons tho ho miners and within a few row moments 1000 families were wading through the muddy waters to to time the hillsides Soon the water rushed Into the mining village vil vi- vi lage Inse causing heu heavy damage Tonight ht the tIme miners and their families arc are camped c. in a pouring rain on omi tho time hillsides under makeshift shelters of blankets Quilts boards and anti straw An unconfirmed rumor is that from six to ten miners were drowned before the they could reach safety When the alarm was spread more than OO men were at wor work in Sn th tho mine According to mine officials all were saved I |