Show 16 MINE WORKERS ARE TRAPPED BY EXPLOSION r rp o i JJ Officials Hold Little Hope for Entombed Men k in Mine Chambers Only Four of Tw Twenty Twenty- nty Workmen Escape in Explosion CAUSED BY DUST Wives Children Children Cluster About Mine Mouth KETTLE ISLAND Ky Ma March h 29 Associated d Press Press Sixteen Sixteen men were trapped a a. milo mile and a half b back ck under the rugged hills hill in a coal coalmine coalmine coalmine mine here late today with little hope for their survival The ex explosion explosion ex- ex that toro tore out the brattice work was believed to havo have been bee caused by dust Tho The slight chance that tho the en cn entombed entombed en- en miners might be able to work their way back Int into some unUsed un- un Used shaft build up a 1 an and protect themselves from the gas gas- filled air was tim the only hope held heir out tonight ht by officials of the Plo Flo- neer Coal company miners might n ha Four hundred been affected had the explosion come como on in any time but Saturday af nf- nf As s s It was Wag oni only a score o oC oe men inch were in tho the mine maine and four es eg- eg cap d. d Albert White a miner win who was waa among anong those who ho c escaped is wan as working near the eo explosion but w was waa a unable to tell of the extent of oC tho the damage 0 RESCUERS ORDERED 1 Mino res rescue u squads wore avers ord ordered r l hero at nt once from Harlan Hurlan and L I CA x- x n K Ky and Norton orton Va i mid a a. a special traits train was waa prepared at ac to hasten their arrival Many of the entombed miners wei we married and their wives children and other relatives s clustered around the tile mine mouth crying for fcc r word o otheIr ot of their fate fato for hours after aftel tho the slon skin Foul air nil fro explosion vented local rescue squads from en entering en cn entering the mine which was wai loas b believed to be ho jammed with debris near the tha scene of tho explosion but work worl was started at once to brace tho tim entrance en cu- cu trance shaft walls avails in pr preparation p for tho the arrival of tho the rc rescue cl sq ROADS IMPASSABLE J Kettle ettle Island Islan Is 18 about eight miles mile from PIneville and roads were saId Kald to be so 50 difficult that tho the only means mans of oC trav travel l were trains and w walking An n at nt the mine commis commissary sary said crews ha had bad b begun Sun the entrance shaft walls walts In preparation preparation prepa prepa- ration for the rescue squads lT H Ho said it was Impossible to penetrate far ar Into the tile workings and md that It tt probably would b ba be lato late this evening c before any effort cHort could bo be mado to 10 reach the entombed Mine officials hud had been is unable t td determine the tIle cause o of the explosion sion Ion definitely |