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Show DEATH LIST WILL TOTAL ABOUT 75 Twenty-two Bodies Are Recovered Re-covered From Flnleyville, Pa., Coal Mine. FATAL EXPLOSION DUE TO FIRE DAMP Rescuers WorK Heroically; Feared All Hissing Men Are Dead. PITTSBURG. Pa.. April -1. With mora than a score and a half of rescuers res-cuers working from three different en tries into the Cincinnati mine of the Monongahela River Consolidated Goal and Coke company at PlnleyvUle, the total number of known dead by the ex plosion of gaa yesterday reached twenty-two this afternoon, with strong probability prob-ability that the death list will be about seventy five. Relays of rescue parties are removing debris and searching for bodies, but little hope is held out that any more of the miners have escaped. The government mine experts are re. inforced by rescue crews from five different dif-ferent mines in the neighborhood, but the deadly firedamp badly handicaps rapid progress, and until the ventilation ventila-tion machinery is restored progress in the recovery of bodies will be slow. That the mine contains many more dead, even officer of the company admit, ad-mit, while doctors of the icscue parties and some of the men who escaped from the workings are of the opiuiou thai the fatalities will number seventy live, or possibly more. General Manager George W. Schlue-berg Schlue-berg of the coal company early took charge of the situation. Crews from the Pittsburg station of the I'nited States bureau of mines were hurried to the little mining town. Ventilation System Paralyzed The ventilation system has been paralyzed para-lyzed bv the explosion and it was necessary nec-essary to construct the temporary passages pass-ages through which the fresh air could be forced. Long hours were consumed in thjis labor, but in the meanwhile parties provided pro-vided with oxygen helmets had climlved over the fallen rock through some of the principal entries. They found many dead, but few living. It is known that 179 mer! went Into the mine and about eeventy-uine sre known to have made their escape. The Cincinnati mine is about four miles ia length. Its main entrance is at Courtney, on tho Pittsburg, Virginia A Charleston railroad, a short distance froni Huston Run, Ps. The other entrance en-trance is at Mingo Junction, Pa. Mine Eighty Tsars Old. The explosion occurred deep in the mine it about 12:40 Wednesday after noon. The Cincinnati mine has been in operation for about eighty years. Thirty years ago there was s gas explosion in which mine cars were blown through tbs tippls and half wav across the Monongahela Mo-nongahela river. A tbeorv as to the cause of the explosion yesterday advanced ad-vanced by one of the men who escaped is that an old mine running parallel with the Cincinnati mine was filled with gas. whieh may have escaped through a crack in a concrete wall separating the mines. Those experts who have come out of the mine report that a number of the dead must have been killed bv afterdamp after-damp while attempting to escape, as none of the bodies recovered was found under the debris. The first band of rescuers are said to have been blocked by debris after they hsd gone a mile. A member of tho party is ssid to have returned and reported that the workings were choked with smoke and the rescuers were encountering en-countering difficulties in reaching the dead. Dp to the time the government experts arrived, volunteer rescue parties, par-ties, wearing helmets and carrying oxy- f;en tanks on their backs, were working n relave of one honr each. O. W. Hoes of Finlevville and his two sons. James and Henry, escaped from the mine uninjured. Moss led a party of eighty toward an entrance, but when it was reached there were only thirtv-eight left. Moss saving himself him-self by holding a sweater over his head. Coroner .Tames Heffran of Washington Washing-ton county arrived several hours after the explosion. He stated that he would impanel s iurv todsy and start an investigation. in-vestigation. YEARLY DEATH TOLL OVER 2000. WASHINGTON. April 21. -Coal-mine sreidents took a death toll last year Of 2360 men. according to a statement made public today bv the United States bureau of mines. The statement state-ment adds, however, that these figures represent a death rate of only 3.15 in every 1000 men employed, the smallest rates of mortality siaee 189. The number num-ber of tons of coal mined in proportion to the number of lives sacrificed was the greatest oa record. There are at present, according to , the statemeBt, a total of 7.10.000 men employed In the indnstrv. |