Show THE HANNA DISASTER The disasters of Saturday afternoon and nd evening that wiped out seventy one lives in the Hanna Wyo Vo Mine line MineNo MineNo No o 1 brings the total of deaths dur during during ing the twenty years that property pro pert has been operated up to a list that is appallingly long The first tragedy of Saturday cost lives The second cost ost fifty All of the latter were nere members of a rescue party part that without organization rushed into the mine urine to rescue the bodies of or their comrades Somebody blundered in III confining the gas to a limited space a second explosion followed and the death list was tas moro more than doubled That the rescuers knew they wore were going into grave danger is not to be doubted for a moment They were all experienced in coal mining and es especially especially especially In that particular mine And AndSet Set Ht ot they were willing to risk their lives in order that the bodies of men with whom they worked might have hav hava havea a Christian burial Also there thore was the faint hope that some sonic might be found alive And then somebody confined the escaping gas crowding it back towards the fire and so the rescuers died It is a significant fact tact that the list lIt lItof of dead f rescuers rescuers contains the names namee of tho the highest operating officials as aswell aswell well as the state mine Inspector These men mon are arc entitled to all nil honor They would not ask others to go gow w where here they did lid not net dare to lead leml thorn then And honor is duo due to the tho brave men who followed to their death The his history History tory of coal mining which is all too crowded with records of oC disaster contain much that is richer In examples of heroism than the latest tragedy at Hanna |