Show A COAL MINE FLOODED OVER EIGHTY MEN DROW DROWNED N ED A waterspout bursts over a mine and causes a rjoo Die dispatches patches from in hungary say that a waterspout burst over the mines near that city aud and flooded them and uial between eighty and one hundred men lad had been drowned the food flood came shortly after noon the atmosphere mo sphere had bad been heavy an hour before I 1 the waterspout burst the wind which had been from the south shifted to the cast and drove up over the mountains near arad a huge mass of clouds at fit amt tit yellowish ebli gray but quickly deepening to dead black tile clouds were whirled along the crebbs of the I 1 mountains by tho the wind which rose to a gale I 1 until the clouds clouda hail had assumed the form of nil an enormous cone with its apex almost testing I 1 on the mountain tops topa the men at the mouth of the pits quit work and two gangs of men from the pit nearest the mountain became alarmed and refused to work they started tor for their homes to walt wait for the storm to blow over suddenly the wind shifted to the north the darkness increased and tho the cone was ivas swept directly over the mines it burst a moment later and the water came down in a deluge sweeping the men from their feet wrecking their shanties and pouring in floods down the shaft largo large buildings v arc siept sw apt from their foundations the roofs were crushed in furniture and tools were carried through shattered doors and win window doiss 6 by tho wind and water several men standing at the pit entrances disappeared in the first rush and are arc supposed to have been carried down tho the shaft with the water and wreckage in the mines the full force of men were at work the total number Is said to lie be BOO or aney had bad no warning of the coming disasters disaster as the men on the surface had the lower galleries in several mines are said to have been completely flooded although the water did not rise to the upper galleries in one pit there are arc fifteen doad in another seven in another neno in other pits tile the wood work and sides were so 60 loo loosened bened by the falling water and debris that no examination has ideen been made and the details of the loss are arc not to be ascertained the volume of water broke with a rustling rushing report that alarmed the whole city and within thirty minutes thousands or men and women were hurrying out to the scene of destruction volunteers were called for and gangs were sent down the shaft which has been left reasonably safe to rescue their comrades the first descents were made ln in the mine bhora ddn men inen were at wor lilo f level the men in the upper galleries gane were found uninjured and were here carried to the top nobody in the lowest gallery was waa alive to tell the story of the disaster the mine was flooded at the level and several bodies were found floating in the water and we were re sent up no more cm can be done before the pumping out of the mines it Is reported that the gumbei of dead in this mine may reach twenty in another pit the entrance of the lower gallery was under water and no bodies could bo be found on this level at least six men were wera at work it Is at this pit where the miners refused to go down when they saw the water elout coming and therefore but one third the usual number were at work in the pit where the nine men are arc known tollace to have been lost there may bo be twenty or thirty dead tor for the water rushed into the lowest two tiro galleries the government Is making preparations to furnish assistance to the destitute famil families lei of the dead miners |