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Show THE HAND OF DEATH. ShocLIoc Mine DIja.lfr Stir Duu- liar, P , Rcsullin; in 1hj or Life THC WOP ST EVER KNOtfN lit THAT REGION. The ChlcT ixcrrtrr hr IrrltnJ A.twenJ y Irlh JTerabtr: iilormr Scene. UNEASY LIES THE HEAD OT fi-S-SIA'B CSAR Secrrlarj lilalne on (be bacar Duly (Jaettlon. X I"t for Eight Month?. . Ly T-csrarh i th" Netrt 1 rue i-ooic niNEits. I lMMrd erThlrtx Use ot lly n nine Explosion In leniiltnnla IlL-NnAK, Ia., June 1C This morning at Il.W asullen roartJiook the lovely miners' Uwellliigs on Hill Farm In Fayette County, near tli plan, anil hundreds of affrighted affright-ed iierMn, who knew Uie sound too neil, and who feared another mine disaster, foon found their njiprehen. Ions well ground-. Ina mor.ivnt the fearful news had nnvnl tht t'le Hill Kann tnjp- "ad txploded TheleclroweU hill from hich the ttoie entered shook from mouth to pit, and the score of rulnirv hou-i-a horjlj for a momentand then loured out their frenzied inmate, t. Uie hundreds. A. ru .1 mn iJo to the moutli of tl-plt but Ingress was Inl pir it, s moke in dense volumes mm I.'Hilnclotth. Kift) -two miutrshad gone to work in the morning and were in the ttojie when the tpIlou occurred. Of these fifty-two, eighteen herein the left heading, nn-l thir'-i-four iu tiie right han-n;. Those in the IeP heading got out all riht. The retreat of the others was cut oil" aud not one toaped. Of tlie- tuiut-onc tuiut-onc were married aud had faiili. The mine it eniH, liad Ii.ii oietthat troubled with watir, aud an air shaft haJ heen tlrilled from the s urfice to the j 11 11c tu re of the right and left shift, uhcre the water seemed to be mot abumlant. At Till Miff-ISC nnANt'llCD ull from tills point they knew that an air hole had been drilled there that had not yet been broken into the mine, but thty did not knot- lint the shaft van to lie brokin into todii, this shaft, by the way. being a ! Int.li hole. A miner named Kirwin hid lit 11 left in the right drift, near where that branch joined the mlne'x exit, and iu the couft- of his labors broke into the perpendicular shaft. The moment this nas broken into 1 flood of water rushed out and Ktruui and a man named Itndy, ttaudin,; lj . yelled out for some one to sae the men in Uie right shaft, as Urn water joured down the hill in a stnam and he feared tin would drowji. Voung Davis Hay, who liaJ seen the all'.ur, leajieii forwaJ at the call aud turned dor. n the left drift to warn in-, endangen-J comrade, com-rade, below . Jut as be pasd tin air shaft that had been brokin into, the ruth of watcrchanged to au ugl roar, which bleached Uie cheeks of the men The flow of water changed to a deadly volume of flredamji, and as joung II33B swung bj the shaft a Hash of blazing light slid through the shaft from end to t ud. It -hi ins that the daring young man carried anopen burning miner's Limp in his hand, aud he hid hardly takiu a step beyond the roaring shaft when Uie spark Ignited the reservoir of deadly firedamp, ami he ank, a corje, ten feet toward Uie men whom he had hoped tosae, and the men whom he had certainly doomed. IN IN. INSTANT a lkrcefiresiranguplu the mine, just between tho main entrance aud the right drift, forever -.hutting oil" Uie thirty-two men imprisoned Uicre. 1'oor old David Kay, father of the ill fated hero, driven mad b the fate of his son, dashed into Uie sulphurous smoke and strangling firedamp, only to fall blindly by the side of his ou, aud to be drawn out an hour later wiUi James Sluarn Both were recognized onlyb thtir wives. The fire, fanned by air from tin. miin drilt and from the fatal 'haft, soon developed into un awful con tligraUon. At midnight Uie smoke aud gas from Uie right shaft poured up the main exit iu an unbroken volume and, after trials almost beyond hu-m?n hu-m?n endurance, Uie rescuing artj gave up all hope of cier recovering their i.mrades' dead bodies from that entranci, ind lurnisl tluir at tuition to the Kerguon mine, a mile and a half away. At this hour(a m.) they are'striviug to penetrate from tliat mine, init tuc Hames and 'Hioke baulk their tviry effort. The universal verdict from old miners about the shaft tonight is Uiat the entombed men were either killed outright by the ex( Ioloii or later by sulloeaticn. The litter seems to be more probable, at least in i-art, as sounds were heard from Uie entombed men as late as 1 o Mock this afternoon. The-egren neiker and w raker, however, and half an hour later even the most hoi tful of the willing recutrs could hear nothing TIIF. I1N SA Uiat had Uiey known the haft was to 1-broken Into thty would hate never entered the mine, as either water or gas would urely follow, since In thee regions gas always comes from Uie upper "hale. The owners, however, and in fact some of Uie men Uitmsclves, y it was an accident, pure aud sim le, that could not hae been avoided. The disaMer is the wort ever known in the Connellsville region. The damage dam-age to the mine cannot now I e. timated, but Uie owners fear the stope is lost. a Ion? Inst. Allntov, Pa., June 16. Iehlgh County his within it borders a remarkable ftting woman wo-man in Uie person of Ir. Ailam Wuchler of fcouth Whitehall, he miles from here, who for eight months has taken prac'lcally no uojrlshment and has not tasted a drop of water since Good Friday, April -tUi, eleven weeks ago Jler case is puzzling local physicians here bej ond measure an 1 Is attracting attract-ing wide curiosity among the lncdi. cal fraternity. Jlamn-patblst. Meet. WaukesIIaw, Wis., June IS. The arrivals of physicians to attend the Homeopathic convention have been numerous and the prospects for a successful meetlngarc flattering. flatter-ing. At the meeting held tonight Dr. J. D. Bark, of Cincinnati, was elected president, ice Dr.Sawer orMouroe, Mich., who Isserlouslv 1 if not fatally ill. |