Show 8 OUT IN COAl MINt MINE EXPLOSION latest SJ a Near Kear Pittsburg From to Bodies in the theW Workings r gs at rt r rD D b Deputy State Mining Inspector Had Just Just Completed His In Inspection lri Inspection When Accident Occurred Occur ed r Il v J Pa Nov The last ray of hope for the rescue of any an of the la laor or more miners who were entombed by byan b ban byan an explosion lon at the Marianna Marlanna mines of oC the Coal company shortly before noon today was dispelled at tonight when the first n rescuing party reached the workings tf and found the dead bodies bo lIes scattered i U about the floor of the mine Few If any an of tho the bodies are muti mutilated mutilated I and the men were ere undoubtedly I smothered by b the deadly dead vapors which followed the explosion The Bodies have not yet et been but It is known that there are at least and the num number number ber her may ma be larger All but two of the bodies In the mine It Is said are those of foreigners 3 Bodies Still in n Mine MineNo MineNo No Xo effort has yet ret been made to re rc them Instead the rescuers and the mining experts are making a com corn complete COmplete piete exploration of all the workings to j SOP f If these are axe now flow safe This work Is expected to occupy several hours The workings in which catas cata catastrophe catastrophe happened are known as the Ra Ba Rahel hel 1111 and Agnes Agnec mines in reality a n dou double double double ble mine with underground connections work was vas practically fin finished finIshed and Deputy State Mine Inspector Henry Loutitt a few minutes before the explosion had completed a two days b inspection which had revealed no cause for apprehension He and General Man Manager Manager I ager tiger Kerr of ot the company came to the surface a few minutes before 11 Mine lIm Foreman Henry Thompson and two miners entered the cage and start started ked ed toward the bottom of the J haft Terrific Explosion there was an ominous rum 1 bir j then a trembling of the ground around around the mouth of ot the shaft as from fron froman fro J I an earthquake and an instant later there theft was A terrific report and the cage was as hurled up the shaft and through the Vie roof root of ot he the mine reman and the still In IL Jt Their Jr bodies bodles were tossed through the top tup of the building and far beyond it Thompson was dead when picked up upa a ail 81 11 tie tle others mortally Injured u great was as the force of the I t on n that shattered portions of ot the woodwork about the mouth of the shaft wro tro blown Into Tenmile creek 2000 p fet away awn Besides the three men in ini j je i 11 e cage cag portions portion ot of at least two other Bodies dies were wre blown from the shaft house housend und nd ver found in a field nearby Deadly Gas and Smoke the explosion R dense lease column of smoke issued from te e shaft haft and it was feared a fierce fire I 1 tas AS raging at the bottom of ot the mine mineA I IA 1 A short time af the smoke al almost almo most mo ost t ceased but those on the surface I Ine 1 TC ne unable to tb t tell whether the fire had I been bren bf n smothered or the shafts so filled i ith falling failing debris that the smoke e could I not escape J I rescue I S ue work was immediately start started ed el Inspector Loutitt assuming charge harge but it was impossible to gain entrance to t the mine for a long time I The Th opening of the shaft haft was the only and for this task there were volunteers In numbers sufficient to work short relays of at as many men as could find room for operations I 1 Special Relief Trains As soon as the news of the explosion I 4 reached the officers of the company compan nl Ill trains were started from this city H R al il 1 1 Monongahela with relief parties o train from this city eft carried the tho 1 f t officers of ot the company compau and min mm r experts from the United States lab tory try and testing station recently es t h d here who took with them the I J j 1 t t appliances and amI devices for relief I I I 1 x ik rk including oxygen helmets by I i f r an Jn of oC which rescuers go through or I Ark in the most poisonous gases I known to mining Superintendent A C I B son Fire Boss William Kennedy Kenne y and an I Jf le e Boss Joseph J Kennedy went I i th li v n h hr shaft in a bucket during the I J a at 1 t rno rion n but were able to get only I thin liin forty fort feet of the bottom Later I oral n ral fral i experienced miners descended I 1110 f steps inside the shaft and succeeded I 1 I h i reaching the bottom Here they T und raid further progress barred The lat I IJ J t I ml ral 1 1 heading heLding from the bottom of the ther F r 1 it rt Into the mine proper was choked I V th ith debris and they the gave gaye it as their I Ij j fl in ion that It would wo ld take many hours I I t clear this away awa The largest possible force was at once put to work to open the passage There was practically no hope from the first that any an of the entombed men would be 1 0 taken out alive but this did not prevent strenuous efforts to hurry hum the th opening of ot the mine Pitiful Scenes The noise of the explosion was an om summons to all aU the people of the little lIttIe town and they hurried to the shaft house The scenes were pitiful They be besieged the offices of ot the company the mining authorities and the workers All 11 these felt certain of ot the fate of low the surface but none would dispel the rays of ot hope entertained until certainty certainty was forced upon them by the clear clearing clearIng ing lug of ot the tho shaft The cause causo of ot the explosion has not been determined Two theories are entertained One is that a n pocket of gas was struck by br one of ot the miners quickly filling the workings and then igniting from a lamp The other theory is that gas from a well wellon wellon wellon on the Fulton farm under which the mine mint is located penetrated the workings The Theland Theland Theland land In the tile is said to be gaseous and it Is possible gas may have seeped through the coal stratum until it accumulated accumulated accumulated hi la n sufficient volume to cause the dis disaster disaster disaster aster Gathering the Bodies At t 1 this morning the rescuing party part had recovered thirtyfour bodies and brought them to the bottom of ot the shaft preparatory to removing them to the sur surface surface face All AU the lS s were found in the main in tn entry ent the debris in the workings making it impossible to explore there The officials of the company compan assert that the number of men entombed will not ex cx exceed exceed while others about the tIle scene say sa a large number were in the mine mina when the explosion Shortly before midnight Peter Arnold an American miner was brought to the surface ce from the Rachel shaft haft suffering only a little from his terrible experience Joseph one of the rescuing party reported that there were ere other men alive lIve below and the rescuers were imme set to work clearing away awa the de bris From the condition of ot the workings where Arnold was discovered Deputy State Mine Inspector Henry Hent Loutitt believes J the twenty other men may be saved About Fifty Americans rth Yf fIn Iti reported ted about the thc mine were either Americans or dr English speaking men A majority of ot the foreigners t were comparatively compa new arri arrivals vats vals Is in tho the country countr many of them hav bar ing log left families in their old homes The power house of ot tha th mine i converted into a temporary pl 11 Cof Cot tins fins have been ordered from this city Monongahela and Washington Steps have already alread been taken for tor the relief of the dependents of o the victims Subscriptions have been opened by b char societies and the newspapers No authoritative estimate of ot the prop erty loss has been made up to this time but it will be heavy hea 0 S |