Show THE MIKE CAVE I I Sllocdn Disaster In Illinois I Chicago 17A biief interview just I held with A M Sweet president of thirtyfour mines comprising the Diamond Dia-mond mine confirms the reports of the terrible disaster at Braidwood Sweets information ia that 300 men were in the various shafts this afternoon when the ground sagged in under the weight of water that had at once loosened it Sixtytwo were in one shaft which II caught the bulk of the falling debris and which wall instantly flooded Every lone of them was either drowned or smothered inside of five minutes Their I bodies are now buried beneath many tons of earth A hundred acres have I been excavated and the miners not in the one unfortunate shaft all escaped Pumping is going on vigorously but it I will be many hours before the first b dies can be reached The mine wa of the ordinary kind supplied with shafts and supposed to ba wall orotected from accident The wires to Joliet arc in bad shape No full report is yet cind from the seen |