Show mm ftp than a W 1 i miners BIN ss r BY A GAS EXPLOSION some ghastly i scenes of death witnessed by the parties ScoTT DALiTa jan as an explosion from fir damp occurred here yesterday whereby more than a hundred miners were into eternity the explosion occurred in the H C coke shafts T of abard 0 o the cene to offer and charred remains have been taken from the mine by 12 today to day the story of the disaster is flold as follow an gs wa struck and the minera wording in the headings connected with fiats 2 3 and wom ia hia duty had beba in the mine anil examined the working places his tb e only evidence that be attended to his dutie lare thea ori received from him this morn ing which guaranteed the mines safe the miners knew these certificates had been filled out and went to work they never returned superintendent keighly who afas mine inspector tn taft dunbar district when that horror occurred was at the mine when the explosion took place he immediately called ifor volunteers and gathering a few him descend ed the he notified general superintendent lynch and that gentlemen gent lemn ordered all ahe mine in the region to the acene when the volunteers entered the mine a sight impossible to picture met them A bank of cars aules and more terrible than all men were packed in a compact mass against the ribs or vella of coal and not a living thing the wreckage it was almost as soled as the coal itself so terrible was force of the explosion 1 this obstruction was removed with aney entered the chamber of horrors the first object they discovered after leaving the main entry was a gum boot in it was the leg of a man further on they found a human head but nowhere in sight was ther trunk that had borne ditc itc but in few minutes after walking a distance surrounded by dangers unseen they i found the trunk the ragged neck j with blood oozing from it told the story of an appalling disaster working their way in they found bodies strewn aiduk the gangway one unfortunate met death while on hia knees in friyer with hands clasped and eyes uplifted his body was found in this position it was a pathetic picture while all this was occurring the peo pie of the region were concentrating at the scene of the disaster women children relatives and friends of the unfortunate victims rushed to the month of the pit shrieking and sobbing and the scene was one never to bo forgotten physicians and undertakers from and greens burgh and after them father lambing of scottsdale scottdale Scott dale went among the bereaved with words of sympathy and urging the mento peater p eater work to rescue any who might be adv and imprisoned the services vices of the physicians were little needed for every man in athe headings where the explosion occurred was killed hone and dead bodies brought up jevery corpse was covered and no one even ventured to inquire which body it was for they knew that everyone every one in tha part of the mine at the time of the explosion was dead superintendent keithly was aurely he had been in two other and youngstown but this was far worse he said t no i man living knows abe cause of the acci denta and it will in for a certain ity not so mant were ailed by the came and the unfortunates succumbed to it this is shown by the fact that only those vicinity of the worst wreckage were mutilated one foreman connected with said that safety lamps were enot used in it the presence of the gas AS not john M bell asre boss at hidano Hc daNo 1 said about two years ago there was an explosion of gaa at the mine andone I 1 man wa burned to death no lafety lampa were used here tagre was too much work here for one boag they dis charged one a couple of weeks aeo to reduce expenses and one man has been forced to do the work I 1 managed to secure the last report ot the mine inspector and it is a very important docu now the of the anine by the abate inspector waa made on january it shows agtha inlet which is about a mile or more away from the shaft that there was cubic feet of air entering the iren cral condition of the mine was marked fair |