Show THIRTEEN MINERS DROWNED IN PIT CAUGHT LIKE RATS IN TRAP WHEN TORRENT POURS INTO PENNSYLVANIA COLLIERY Cloudburst Cause of Terrible Accident Which Deprived Thirty Children of Their Bread Winners Winners Many Many Fight Their Way to Safety Safely Uniontown Pa like rats in ina a trap when water rushed into the manway of ot Superba No 2 mines at Evans station three miles north of Uniontown Wednesday afternoon followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed a cloudburst thirteen men were wore drowned and thirty-seven thirty escaped after a most harrowing experience The men were ere drowned about feet from the mouth of the mines their only avenue of escape The majority of the victims h had d large families and about thirty children chil dren are deprived of at their bread win win- ners tiers The men who escaped were forced to half swim and half walk to the pit mouth through water ranging In depth from their wals waist to their necks The majority of the miners who escaped were knocked down by timbers that were sent down the mine with great velocity in the raging cur cur- rent Several men men were being carried back in the mine to certain death when rescued by their companions It was stated by officials of the Superba company that it will take at least sixty days days to clear the mine of water and until that time bodies must remain in the mine Superintendent Buttermore Buttermore was the first man to see seethe seethe seethe the high water start in the man manway way He raised the alarm and all the men menon menon menon on the outside rushed into the mine Telling Felling loudly a as they went In that manner more than half the miners were saved |