Show FIVE LIVES ARE LOST BY EXPLOSION Of GAS Another Terrible Disaster in Water Crib Being e 1 Built B lt at Cleveland Ohio T 0 i 0 Cleveland C Ci eland voland CU 0 Aug SL LAs As th the re result re wit suit of aa an of gsa 98 lit 1 the new ne waterworks tun under Lake Erie Brie lOSt ast night a nD nice more were added to the akrea y long Io g list nt of casualties shies Roe work began boe on OR the great The Dead DeadRa Ray Kay Ra James Williams Daniel DA tel Higgins James John Bert Crib No S 3 S lIve five miles nes from shore snore and two wo miles beyond crib No 2 2 where nearly a dozen lives were lost a week ago P was the scene lICe of the latest late t sect acct accident dent The work of sinking the big in inake intake intake take ake shaft at that point was com corn yesterday ye and Del five live workmen were engaged in ID digging cU a tunnel in Inthe inthe the he direction of No 2 t crib when the fatal atal explosion ion occurred The heavy casing of the shaft was by the terrific force of the explosion lon and an Immense volume of Cot water from the lake Ike e rushed in upon the unfortunate workmen at the bottom Two men who were at work on staging at the top of the shaft were blown high into nto the air but alighted on the crib and nd beyond being stunned were not se seriously seriously injured The accident occurred early last night but nothing was wu W known of it on onshore onshore shore hore until today For some me unexplained unexplained unexplained reason no boats are kept at the 0 jar Thirty men who were on the t e crIb erlb when th explosion took place pi ce spent ent the night vainly signaling for far as 85 assistance assistance It was long loag lifter alter daylight a tug reached them It is sup supposed supposed supposed posed that the men digging struck lt k a vein of or gas which as 88 ignited by jI a spark made by a 8 workmans pick Heavy iron girders and a d machinery ery weighing more than 1 tons were forced out of the shaft by the explosion sion slen The crib was w Death must have been u to the workmen in the tunnel their belr corn cem rades above heard no outcry ou So great was the destruction de wrought x by the explosion that it will wUl probably proba ly lybe be weeks before the damage can be repaired and the bodies of the die unfortunate u tOl recovered James Williams who lost lo t his lIfe In last nights accident was one of the themen t themen men who heroically entered the tun tell tunnel nel after the accident of Ot last la at week at crib No 2 In search of victims of that ut disaster Plummer Jones who at that time descended into the shaft with Williams was overcome with gas and aud died in the tunnel 0 Mayor Johnson visited the scene or of orthe orthe the accident early today and immedi immediately immediately Immediately upon his return ordered all aU con on construction construction work on the tunnel stopped until every safeguard shall be provid provided ed for the protection of the men The mayor said that in his opinion the the city was now justified In taking work out of the hands hand of or the contractors tors tots and that if possible this would be bedone bedone bedone done |