Show collieries COLLI ERIES SCENE OF catastrophe OVER TWO HUNDRED MINER BURIED AND BUT FEW ARE RECOVERED ALIVE cause of explosion has not been ascertained and probably never will se be hope of saving burled buried men has been abandoned bluefield W va with a thunderous detonation which made the hills quiver and sent tilo the valley folk panic stricken from their homes two mines of the now river collieries Colli eries erles company hero here blew up on tuesday burying miners feet underground of the seventy one men who were burled buried in one shaft no 6 sixty have been taken out alavo and eleven dead of tile the known to have been in the other no 5 not one has been rescued flames and smoke are belching from the crumbled shafts and although all hope 0 of t saving any of of the the burled buried men has been abandoned colliers from mills a round around aro are risking their lives in an effort to snuff out the the flames earth and water the cause of the explosion has not been ascertained and perhaps will never be known the new river company operates six mines at eccles nos 6 and 5 connect at 2 30 tuesday afternoon there was a slight explosion in no 6 followed by another slightly greater in no 5 6 ton ten minutes later the valley shook with the third blast in no 6 the timbers over the main shaft the ventilators rs and the cages were shot to the sly sky and deposited far up the hillside |