Show EXPLO ION OF FIRE PAPA PAP-A Terrible Accident in an Aus trian Coat Mine EIGHTY MRS KILLED The Work of Rescue Retarded by Gas in the Galleries Awful Scenes at the Pits Mouth Wen the Bodies Were Brought Out Women Attempt to Mob the lIe Officials VIENNA Jan 24An explosion of firedamp occurred today in the Fort schritt mine at n in Bohemia Dispatches Dis-patches tonight say that eighty miners ore killed and scores injured The explosion explo-sion occurred this morning when tho shifts were changing A cage full of miners had been lowered half way when the ground trembled a loud rumbling report was heard and tho lowering machinery ma-chinery broke Help was summoned the machinery repaired and the cage raised Ten occupants were killed instantly in-stantly by the shock Ten suffered fractures frac-tures from which they cannot recover five who had broken limbs and Internal injuries will live They were half suffocated suffo-cated by gas rising in the shaft and said no man could live below An hour later the superintendent of the mine and five miners from the night shift went down in the cage They were unable un-able to go more than a hundred yards but they found fourteen dead bodies of the fifty men who were waiting for the cage below Ten were killed and forty partially crushed by faUn timbers or half suffocated by the foul air The bodies and the injured were taken to the top where the whole min settlement had gathered to watch the work of rescue Men brough up said they heard cries and groans from the mouth of the gallery about 300 yards from the shaft and they believed forty men who were at work in the gallery were imprisoned by falling beams Another rescue party went down at once and after three of thorn had been carried back to the shaft unconscious penetrated to the entrance of the gallery The entrance was completely blocked by wrecked woodwork The rescue party could see several dead bodies on the other side of the timbers but was unable to get at them and returned empty handed It is believed all the men in the gallery were suffocated or killed Twelve miners who worked in the extreme interior oi the mine are also believed to be dead Despite the apparent hopelessness of the situation rescue parties are still in the mine and thousands have gathered at the pits mouth When the extent of the disaster became evident women of the dead mens families attempted to mob the mine officials The officials sent to Dux for police and three companies of soldiers are camped around the pits mouth tonight |