Show THREE I lIE IE IN COAL COALt t I MINE HORROR I KentucKy y Is I S I Scene cene of Fatal Coal Mine fI 4 Explosion RE THAN TUAN THIRTY IRE BODIES RECOVERED ic e Not Fired and Ve Vent VenIt Yen Yen- t It til Hating Apparatus Uni Un Un- J t i harmed Ky Feb 2 Thirty Thirty Thirty- miners have been killed two arc are areg p f ig g and fifteen are injured as a a re- re of the explosion in the tho Browder mine near here yesterday There 1 JOO men in the two wings of the Ir the time of the explosion but buti butin i fifty ty in the west wing escaped un ma- cede Those in the thc east cast wing felt f full force of the explosion One or orI I II I I of of the injured are in a critical con con- conOf jn Of the dead about half were m en all Americans and the thc reider re- re r ider der negroes telephone jone messa message e from froll the Brow Brow- 1 min x-es x the nu number ber of dead O t t three The bodies of all alt have hac havee covered e While there was still t this forenoon as to the number penin enin tho the mine at the time of the Sr n. n it was reported that thereN there N ot have been more mora than fifty i ie e explosion is believed believe to have hae been d by a miners miner's lamp igniting gas as unused chamber The force of explosion was apparently sufficient auTe us use instant death to all the men mene e eastern astern where e wing it occurred r and heavy timber were blown I 1 ike kindling wood th n a L few minutes after the first i Wf of the explosion e the inhabitants min mining n town were crowd crowd- II bout the shaft Women and amI and chi chil- chil crazed with grief rief pleaded with 11 Jin charge charre for news of the tho en en- men They were spared one of of of other her recent disasters l Wy long suspense Was ie Was Was Prompt l it thin a a. few ew minutes after the ex- ex fa fans as had sucked the work work- w almost cl au of deadly gases ase and ando paries wrt wr able I t d JO o 0 o. o 1 I lQ the anti ai tt 1 th r rit t ia-i- ia was was fortunately if fu the shock o t first bodies recovered were were in t VW good condition the men havin having smothered mothered and not man mangled led b bv by the ion don but as the push pushed d on hurl 1 bodies so mutilated that they tin unrecognizable recognizable IlIR itE Reno no colored who was in the Page cage was found sound dead at atI I ottom of the shaft i eral Manager lr HoZ Hogg of the mineI mine i I d lb the r rescuers all aU ni night ht t ne Inspector Prof C C. J. J NorI Northe Nor Nor- I aid the Browder mine had given r ren en 41 some uneasiness on acU ac ac- U lof its is pe peculiar aso s condition 1 therefore had been inspected er r than required b by law The LI lias Thas been visited at least once a I I mine is one and a half TI from cm here and 1 ibe be explosion oc- oc ord d shortly after noon Tuesday age nage a e to the mine mine investigating atin discovered rl was not mate mate- st was confined to the east entry hundred bundred men were in in the mine at lit atme me ime ime of the explosion more than west I entry All An hastened stages e a ages es and were vere quickly drawn e top Later many in the cast east ht their then way to the shaft were brought brou to safety n. n as it was safe to begin the work ork miners were s sent nt down in insi si 8 Bander under direction of J J. Abercrom- Abercrom anne ano foreman and G G. GReynolds Reynolds superintendent the he immediate vicinity of the ex- ex ellen Uen mm awn had been working The asian sian threw the bodies ninny many feet that the explosion was iby dby a track repairer 1 going into room with an au uncovered The The room is is shattered almost ins m ms and the body of the repairer where b re to be found Browder mine nine with three throe others rs r was purchased Syndicate of Tennessee and West Ost Westia I uLa ia capitalists ts |