Show ELEVEN AR ARE DEAD IN MI E DISASTER INDIANA Pa PaD Feb 7 Eleven 7 Eleven men dead is the tho toll of a gas explosion in inthe inthe inthe the slope sloe No 2 of the Ernest mine of the Jefferson Jefferson field Clea field Coal oal company five mies es north of here The exploSion explosion explosion sion occurred in a heading where twelve workmen were located and one of these Andrew escaped by crawling a quarter of a mile on his stomach to evade the noxious gases His inability to speak English prevented a lucid explanation of the cause of the explosion When he ho saw the tho lights of the rescuers he moaned and tried to crawl He lie was slightly burned burne but suffered chiefly from the effects of after lIe He was placed in a car carand carand carand and taken immediately to daylight Some of the dead were found near the entrance to the heading others lay along the track at short di distances ances from each other almost at the face of the coal Two bodies nearest the face were burned slightly The position of the bodies showed the men had made desperate desperate des des- efforts to crawl away from the tho heading How escaped cannot cannot can can- not be learned When h lie he recovers from fright it is is thought he may be beable beable beable able to tell teU of the accident One Ono hundred and ten were working in the same slope but escaped through other headings of the mine although they were held back for about ten hours 1 by ly y the black damp until a rescue rescue res res- res cue party pary of twelve mine bosses bossos reached reached reach reach- ed them One thousand other other- men working in the adjoining mines within three miles who heard the concussion concussion concus concus- sion paid no heed to it and did not learn of the disaster until they came out o of the mines early tonight Four our men who were laying tracks just within with with- in the mouth of the tho mine slope were knocked unconscious unconscious by the concussion but were revived later with little dif dif- |