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Show I. 1st A -st Details From the Recent Si Horror in Pennsyl-vania. Pennsyl-vania. En HO ATTEMPT AT RESCUE. 5 , "' (fjl of Brick Gone Through-A fight for Life and Death. i7 ' ! ,n Pit.. June 21. Mine Inspec-l'of Inspec-l'of "the Pittsburg district, and ,- johnsto'wn, arrived hero early i- morning. They went 11 ', the scene of the i hero they were joined il rotir Keighley of this Tim !ll'L'0' accompauied by I miiio siiperintendetils, lire v ,n(l a number' or eximrienced from various parts of lho region i9lh Mahoning niiiios, with a, callin? through to the scene of 'j lesion- limn was carefully examined " lliii;il inspei'toi'' before they f !,,,ived to join the )arly. No 1 i foul niiiched intoxicants Uio fnix- wns allowed to enter the jio married men were accepted, mi prtqiarctl to meet even li is a desperate case, and des-;iCiIuk1s des-;iCiIuk1s are being employed to Ki'ulmnhed miners iu the quick-;!ilc quick-;!ilc way. jcul anil skill of the entire re-i re-i or ilirecting the efforts at res-MjL'llicr res-MjL'llicr are managing to the i detail the" work of penetrating iinenit from the nearest point in jining mines and arranging to fin. from its present seat by a in now being erected at 1 lie ofllio Ferguson works. This i.lietu untiring aud telling to-I to-I the fuu is yet unfinished. The ilit Mahoning works are at 10 wight about seventy-five feet Wis considered the shortest ,i the ill-fated mine. The . in-;haie in-;haie no hope of finding the link's lin-k's alive. The victims may be ) it 1 o'clock tonight, certainly ' rtliau noon tomorrow. ' (tlinj of horror possesses the tee and interest is now, cen-t cen-t the mouth of ' the Mahoning j The relatives and friends of the cJ miners seemed to grow more 1 every hour during the day and ml wilh their increased burdens bjmloament of hope and a more le grief. There is np sleep and iorthem. . They seem bound to s mouth by some invisible and in their misery they stand, ibductl and mute in their horror in, swaying in constant har-tith har-tith their pitiable surroundings, ill remain there until ..the lull , line giv es up its untimely dead.-ier dead.-ier Hobart, of this county, era-I era-I j jury and examined tho bod-Miiel'Shieran bod-Miiel'Shieran and David Hays, !ims taken out yesterday, aud luin here tomorrow morning, p thinks the other bodies will en taken out. inhtlong the rescuing parties "(1 at the mouth of the manhole, i Hill mine, but their efforts fruitless, and," when 'daylight pen them, they were no nearer rtitflate men entombed in the I mine. 'dock lust evening all hope of t the imprisoned miners alive wloned. Efforts were made to hiirniug slope through the "' ami the Ferguson mines. It "ml impossible to get near the with the former, owing to the "n of the slope, and iu the Fer-HUlie Fer-HUlie air was so bad that it was to travel any distance. 'fse conditions the most sail-''lie sail-''lie workers yielded, and it was imiiined to cut off all fresh air ,'he nunc burn itself otit, tint e of the men might be re- 'first drift, a solid wall of brick, t''!'t'il, was built across lhe ilitterial was w heeled down ;lrt- to where the men were at m air fan was set at work, fresh air to the rescuers. As Mms associated press coitcs- was enabled to reach the point iiieawero working. Traces ,ll:mp still remained iu tho air. Bs wwe felt in an aching of ''Mn a partial loss of speech. JS.itiie to be seen. Men were "ke beavers to finish the wall. j'J bgl.t was obtained from amps. There was no wasting "i "lie ta:k. All tho s'.rcugth aiL'n was needed in building tiio ; larongh tho iiiicmiiiajs ia the '' I 0 Hie left could be seen a , 811(1 of smoke, occasionally 3 "nmes. Back of this wall of f Indies of lho workers's rol-Jl'i'inpitnions. rol-Jl'i'inpitnions. ""'"rk this lnoruing there was ' .ciumge at the mine, except ; : re was licrcer, lho smoke ',L ' despair of the survivors "an ever before. The fight for np by the livir.g all " he early gray of morning -ba I-leso'"rjyr Party driven om the death chambers, L uot penetrate within MO 'Je Place they had reached last I.mrniug Martin Mavkey, itiJ Anchor mines, made a ,-Jmpt to reach the eight drif t-ujam t-ujam mines, ii-om tho i entrance, one and one-half ?ss the m s- He crawkd and fallen slate to within the f:tal cbainbers and sv ,'D.amlngiin. but listened rsp m vain. The men were ""'cred or 'wore figbtlutrthe ' no'"r steadiiy encroaching ".iriow- tenltorv, and Mark.ey, 'Y81'-, abandoned tho hope-A hope-A J ?.p:n8 answer lrom ".l. dumb slate. . j the pit's mouth it all r., "abie because of t ne twenty i f' "igir.sh that has rolled , of tho lebitivc-s and -ft :,e cntom'jed lniuei-s and :r,,V:!'Kl, , steadily at Ihe mouth ,te ''"fdl.vat the black column J'ir sm,ls to grow thicker 'ftn'J"' :0ililDpr that the coal was : J!1.? instead of timber and s ior volunteers to relieve ' '-ji v,',v constant and re-;,1l'i0rr""' re-;,1l'i0rr""' ll'C sentence had -uea fur there were no idlers. |