| Show EIGHT MINERS KIL KILLED LE D 1 I three others hart by explosion afi ol 01 rire fire damp 4 J brownsville Browns ville pa sept 23 21 men were entombed to day in th at em alra mine of 0 snowden Sli owden goulda gould townza do 1 one fourth of 0 a mile wow below town aa Us result ot of on of eg cafe 4 followed by another explosion ot of firedamp of 0 the lh number entombed entomb td bil all escaped or were taken out by rescuing parties except eight debt pho labo berei killed outright and three more or less hurt burt the explosion Is said lia to hav been caused by the loci nering of 0 tj ILI large block ot of coal which opened s pocket of 0 gas immediately following tile alie explosion of 0 gas there waa IDA a explosion of 0 bra damp there be seventy men mail at work in tho the alne lt the time of the dister disaster anil and at first it seemed romeil an impossibility tor for the iho itty fifty tour four men in the mine fittere the explosion occurred oce urrea to escape escapa j four men a 11 lie ho were near the entrance ce in managed am to crawl out and the others other with the exception of those caught by falling coal escaped by trave ing a mile rl and a half of underground passages corning coming out at the entrance near lynn a et tation atlon a point four our mlle miles from the opening of the mine As aa soon noon as the disaster was known rescuing parties went to work but it was waa several hours before the dead and wounded were recovered and brought to the tha surface I 1 i MINER T I 1 ha falls forty feet and narrowly escapes death TRIBUNE SPECIAL cripple creek col sept a 23 frank grove escaped death this afternoon while working la in an upraise of the salina tunnel the shots were started when he began to descend the ladder and he slipped falling forty feet to lo tunnel level A miner saw aw him falling find and dragged tho the unconscious body from underneath the upraise in ten seconds the shots exploded sending to ton ot of rock where the body had been grove was badly injured try by the tall fall and will probably be crippled tor for life |
