Show FATE PERISH IN A FiE Pennsylvania Mine Disaster Overtakes the Workmgmen Light Mr n and tiny Wore Caught lutTlreeVVtro I urlTlrei Wit owl u list I Eight < > r I nun Left Scranton Pa Oct SOrive of the eight mn who last night caught on tile Von torch slope by lire In the shaft perished during the night The remaining re-maining three escaped from the Diamond t vein by a cross heading Inlo another gangway where the air was pure and reached the surface STho dead are Thomas Hill foreman of tie night shill married leaves widow nnd live children Thomas McDonald laborer widower three children Join ankovvikl laborer married John Moran track layer single John J Farrell pumper single The bodies of the five men were brought tu the surface about 10 oclock Whn the Ore broke out In tholnln gangway or tits slope there were twelve men and boys In the mine Im male their way to the hoisting shaft nrd were brought to the surface before be-fore the fire and smoke hal cut off of v their means escaiw When It became known about 10 this morning that eight men and boys were rtlll In the mine hundreds of cltl tens llocke1 to the mouth of Ibo slope Claries Plenler superintendent of the mine and a number of miners started down tin slope to attempt ti rod uu the men They were driven Ik I however dol > the smoke The flm len 1rCr double I hlntmg hose went Into Ihe slope 11 extinguish the flames They had descended 2 > > 0 feet when sudd nl the air current changed The smoke was forced toward the mouth ot the slope and Ihe rescuers had to drop the hiHe und run for their lives Coin ellman Patrick Gordon who was a member of the arty i when wjthln tiventytive feet ot the opening sank exhausted several or the men volunteered toered 10 rescue him still lie was found unconscious but later rlvd |