Show SCENES IN THE TRAGEDY There never was a mining ml disaster of any magnitude without instances 8 of heroic If and conspicuous of individual courage In Incase case it has shown work workmen workmen workmen men prompt and willing to risk their own lives live in going to the rescue of their At Winter Quarters thre there were many such exhibition of gallantry a as fine aa a ever eer witnessed on the field of battle They rhey were ineffectual and hopeless but none the tho laps ls S grand When en young Will Clark lark dashed into the tunnel after alter the th explosion to aid ad bice hi father and brother wh ho bad had been working there he be went to certain ertain death But he be never faltered He tea fet that they needed Mm him and he heS S S went vent ant He perished before bere he reached S them and when his hie hi lifeless body was taken home O his state sister r fall f d dad ad at the sight Two brothers were found locked in InS S each others other arm arnie arm and an in the arms arm of De Dea h h A score of boys who help helped ed th Their ir r fathers fathera rs were taken out with the dead tk ad d One father Author had almost reach reuh reached ed the mouth of the tunnel with ith hiS hia hiason son sn and there they were werf discovered In to Ina inS S a last embrace where the afterdamp had hd overcome oV rome them There may have ha a abeen S been a hundred deeds deede of unexampled and devotion of which the i world orId will never know knowS S After an explosion n in m a Pennsylvania S mine a n few years yean ago a boy MY related his i experience with one of or the rough minera who sa Sa saed sd d his life The man carried him a t considerable distance until th the i was vas encountered The J he lad was nas frightened and wanted to rush rushS S through it This was certain death deathS S and the man knew it He lay down and andS held the th boy who vho clawed Jawed and fought tol ht S like demon But they kept their thel laces close e to to the ground and ond nd were w re saved the tic miner singing comic songs to the boy to calm cahm him How many cases canes es of loyal loyat lo l devotion of ce of f men cheering and help helping ing univ each other of husbands exchanging lug ing messages of or fathers trying desper desperately desperately desperately to save their sons e nf n of men m n striving ing to ItO reach their loved ones there were Vere in this calamity calar will never be known There they lay where the rescuers found them arm in arm or orande lianda ande clasped cold and a d stiff tiff Not one escaped from the more t re dangerous rous and fatal quarter to tell the story of their heir terror their trial their despair their end or to give Sive the loving messages of their dying breath bre th to the helpless chil chit children chilen dren ticen en and aud heartbroken women who awaited their coming and prayed for their safety 8 in vain Everybody who js in is acquainted dJ with the history tory of mining that hero heroism bero lam ism and self have always characterized the miners s as a 9 class S Secluded as they th y are ar from the tle world living end nd laboring beneath the ear eur r face of the earh ea h these tr are seI sd dom oom recognized or d until some ouch mien brings it fresh fre to the mind |