| Show FOUR HUNDRED DEAD FIRE IN COAL MINE BRINGS SOR ROW TO MANY DEPENDENT UPON WORKERS after every effort had been made UP to extinguish flames mine la Is sealed scaled up and all hope of Es escape cape of entombed men abandoned cherry ills four hundred men a and n d boys perished as the result of a terrific explosion in the at paul mine on saturday J i the mine haa hasa a day shift of ibi 48 men of these a few left the mint before the explosion occurred thoi the others doubtless are dead the fire causing the explosion which may prove one of the grea greatest teat trag edles in tho the list of mine horrors had bad an origin almost trivial trl at pile of lidy hay allowed to too long finally 1 ignited the timbers of oc the balne anol andl before the wore lori realized their danger the mine waa was filled with smoke g gases a sea and flames and all exit woo was impossible ima great heroism was shown by officials and residents of cherry these men who were wera outside the mino when the fire started contributed five t list flat of the tha known dead by rushing into the mine trying to save thit the doomed men after svery avery effort to extinguish thi flames had proven futile the shaft shaff oc the burning mine was sealed this ended all hopes of the escape ot at the tha imprisoned men the st paul mine la Is the only ono one in the town torri and provided employment for almost 1000 men among the missing are many americans who have lived in the mining sec tion of illinois tor for years trough thet majority of those who may never be found alive are foreign born yet alt all had their homes horne where hero or in the surrounding towns and villages griet galef overt over their beir probable fate has cast a toji over the community |
