Show THIRTY PERISH f f IN COAL MINE IN OKLAHOMA Miners Imprisoned in Burning Shaft Are Suffocated Before Flames Are Extinguished BODIES ARE RECOVERED RESCUING PARTY DRIVEN BACK TO THE SURFACE BY FLAMES S AND SMOKE McAlester Okla Okia Aug Sig 26 G More ore than thirty miners were suffocated In Hally Ola coal mine No 1 at Hall four tour miles east cast of or McAlester cAlester this morning when fire tire destroyed the hoisting shaft and air all shaft and cut off air all from the themen themen men Inen below dead bodies were brought out following a successful three hours battle with the flames It Is be believed that six or eight more moro will bo be md mules m l s were l and some of or their bodies were u Explorations In the channels this aft afternoon revealed the fact that none of or orthe the men met death by burning but that all of oC them were suffocated It Is Impossible yet et for tor the rescuers to get far tar from the base of or the mine mineshaft shaft and It probably will be twenty four hours before a thorough search of the entire mine can be made Some of or orthe the channels are of or a amile amile amile mile long Ions Communication Shut Off After the entombed miners had gone Rone down on the cage cape a fire lire broke out occa occasioned stoned by the Ignition of or a barrel of or oil which a miner was trying to divide The flames spread at once to the hoist holst hoisting ing n shaft and the air shaft and all aU communication with the tho top was at ati l 1 i once cut off ofT The first Intimation the people on top of or the ground had baa of ot the tho trouble was the flames and smoke com corn coming comIn cornIng ing In out of the top of the shaft sharI Hun Hundreds Hundreds reds fit t f C miners rs rushed to the scene and tried to get et into the air shaft but this was Impossible as flames lames and smoke were ivero coming up that way wa with such force torce us as to drive them back baele Then an effort was vas made to operate the cages caJes running up and down the hoisting hoisting shafts but It was found that the cages casts the th cables and the guides had been burned There was absolute absolutely ly no help for the Imprisoned miners The IH owned by Dr D 51 M Halley James Elliott and li 11 a number of or Chicago and St Louis capitalists among whom are several of the directors directors directors tors of tho Rock road The Tho property loss cannot be estimated at nt present ut may ma reach rench The Tho Thomine mine Is one of or the most valuable in the southwest The Dead Following Is a list of oC the known lead dead Ross Hoss Milton Andrew Dom tom Ink Inlo Mariano Marano Steven George Smith R H H Webster web er Nicholas vich Ih W V H Harlet Roy nO Pierce Dan Joe a Frank Nick Lee Harvey Tom Ral lion ilion George Glendenning Al Davis Valter Jones Alec Ross floss At least twelve more names unknown |