Show GAS EXPLOSION KILLS MINERS and I ably Dead D Is Over 4 MULE IS BLOWN ll F SHAFT OE OP BB TO JO BB 4 Jan Jaa 3 From all aU that P can Be te gathered at t this thir hour b be tweet tween V aad ad W Uk 1 me men r lying 4 the t headings anti pas ff toe the mine of the Coat Coar company at Ch 1 U r result o og a terrin to Uy fage tae after cage has gone down don into the thu mire and tome up again Ogain bat bitt only one of f alt 11 those that ve down clowa to work morning has been brought to tn the The rescued man is Adolph and he is still in a semieon at the temporary ho hoe hoat tt at th tho rude house en the above the flie mice In addition to the miners who v vre re reat at work whet the explosion it is now believed by practical t the men a f the rescue party wi wit hiv come uj the ho vertical for fora a warming and a breathing pp that elwyn Taylor the mining ineer who plotted the mine who wa us the first to reach the bottom after the happened is it now among amog the list of dead Of those t in the mine mice all ali are probably il IcI al Flame Comes Up Shaft fhe occurred at A u Morning and the first warning wa was the sudden rumble nimble underground an ant then thena a sheet of hams flam followed up no the tho Both mine ca ca were liri l through th the tipple twenty feat above the loading landing case cage and the three e m n a on tb th tipple were hurled to the grand grandA und undA A mule inaPt wa was thrown nigh high above tho th shaft haft and fell dead ot em the ground Th men meng w e brought at once onee to thi city where two of thorn them have died she As soon as the rumble of the explosion and the crash at the pit mouth startled th the little village the wives nd rud children of tb tho men flies below n bd to th scene of the disaster but bur to gain no ro encourage encouragement ment There was no imo way to g get t Into the tho deep workings The cages that it n tho thomen th uteri men into the mines and brought thorn them out again when the day Ja s ti work wa watt dono dori were both demolished All Ail day long there wa was n a jam of and children waiting about tho n nI ith of f the pit There were culls calls for assistance and for surgical aid from the men in charge of the mme but it was nut not until 4 tills this afternoon that the tho frs at attempt attempt tempt at eu was ra made mad This wa was a failure as pa the two men who volunteered were dehen back by bit t foul sit Loads Leads the Way Sh after S i Selwyn M Tat Tay Taylor lor br sad ami one of his signaled for fortne forthe the engineer mineer to lower lowel them into th shaft i is UH still down there times nave have been made to reach him but se PS far without avail MS on one of the first of the tb the surface told t p through the mine He Hera ra 1 with Taylor and ana we clambered over three thre or four foth titHe falte Taylor laid out the mine md d een d to know the way There was one fibs the foot of j the shaft He was sent up and then we took this mUle path kite into the south level Vre tw men Te who were L alive and j LI M ue JI u u mi i LI M ue JI u u mi i on AVe We passed the third fourth sod fifth and then through an mt Into the air shaft I be bea aa to feel f 1 anti and sick and then I saw Taylor stagger and fall fail His fife lantern fell We tried tuu o lift Mft him up but could not carr carry him up Cod and I Made nay my own way to safety F W Cunningham mine min inspector of the Fourteenth district reached abent b at IM When en by an n Associated Press reporter Just after his arrival he said The mine where the explosion took place was Inspected about the 1st of or De Dc December cember There was some gas in there then but I never Considered the mine dangerous Over Men in Mine j H F who gave out th I lamps to the min miners rs before they thet went i in the pit this morning stUd stid At kb the time when th whistles blew and when every our Ott is up sup supposed posed to be at work at th mi o I h i out between and 0 lamps That was one lamp to a man Yes Did any of those lamps come back buek I otone one There is a light in every cottas in him the little hamlet above the pit mouth ThrIs Is s still a crowd about the mouth of ib I hi shaft but it wilt will probably be hours 1 be before fore the full extent of ot the th catastrophe is known I |