Show MINES CLOSED by BT FLOODS the anthracite coal trade now at a standstill philadelphia may 27 the anthracite coal trade like the bituminous trade to 3 at a standstill though from a vastly different cause the floods throughout the anthracite regions have hooded flooded many of the mines forcing a suspension of work until the flooded mines can be lell eved of 0 the sur surplus plinia wab r the atul t 0 of the enforced top stop pase together with the curtailed pro dim thock of oc the anthracite lit companies tor for several months past has produced ft a scarcity of hard bard coal and especially with the reading company which it has as been compelled within tho the past f few e w days to decline ord orders irs out of aan some tie tony forty collieries colli coll eries erles operated by the lending all but twelve are at in a condition to prevent the of coal but tho the company expects in a few ew days to have the majority of 0 them pumped out and lit in orera operation era tion |