Show r t t r 1 Lt 1 n o Ur r R ll PF I Violation of Law Lw Sends r many 1 1 Men llen To Terrible Death 3 Trolley Wire Breaks Causing Explosion of Carlo Carload Carload Car Car- lo load d of Powder Attached to Train in in Which Miners Are Proceeding to Stations ons By Associated ted Press Pross V Pa June 5 Seventy five to a hundred mine mineworkers mineworkers W W workers were killed and many others injured at the B Baltimore No 2 tunnel of the Delaware Hudson company near here early to today day A A. car of black powder attached to a trip of cars on which themen the themen themen men were riding hiding to their chambers in the mine exploded The trolley wire broke and sparks ignited the powder Most of the deaths were caused by fire and suffocation Identification of the bodies is almost impossible Many of them are charred beyond recognition The limbs of some and the heads of others are missing At 9 30 a a. a m. m it was said between seventy- seventy five and a hundred were k killed or had died from injuries The death list is rapidly growing As the bodies are removed from the mine living and dead they are piled on the green about the colliery Many of the injured lived but a short shortt time Hundreds of women men and children gathered about the tunnel Shrieking and crying they lifted the blankets from the men Women fainted men lost their nerve and children ran away in fright It has been established that the explosion was caused by a break in the trolley wire This wire gained contact with the powder and sparks did the rest The death list was made large by the flames and the sulphur I fumes which filled the tunnel Rescuers got into the mine with hose and played streams of water on the flames While they were doing this the cries of the dying and the injured were heard above the roar of the flames Today's acci accident ent is a direct result of violation of the law Permission was given the men to ride the trip to their place of I s work and a special tra tram train n was provided It is a violation of the mine law to carry powder on a train on which men mell are carried The law is specific that powder and other explosives must be transported alone lone There were a dozen kegs of powder in one ono of the rear cars all aU of which exploded A statement given out by the company at noon said seventy- seventy seven bodies have been recovered one Forty-one bodies have been identified and thirty-six thirty remain unidentified The company's injured injured injured in in- list is not complete and it is certain the number of injured will win reach about forty Some of the first bodies brought from the tunnel were burning when they reached the surface Clothes had been burned away and the flesh was roasting from the intense heat Water was poured I on these to put out the fire It was such sights as this that made brave hearts turn sick Thomas Dougherty a miner one of the survivors was thrown out of a car by the blast and saved himself by jumping into a a. ditch He said We were riding along about fifty feet in the tunnel There was a blinding flash I was thrown from the car I saw the water I and I hurled myself into it Bodies were all an about Some I knew I were dead others were crying The flames were terrific They were all aU about We were in a veritable hell No man could possibly hope to escape with his life unless he lie got in the water buried his face and rolled over and over as I did There was powder in the car There were about ten kegs and besides there were kegs carried by the men Of course I do not know what set them off but I believe the trolley wire broke and that sparks ignited the powder It seems like the irony of fate that over the mouth of the tunnel in great big white letters are painted the words I. I Safety First |