Show DEADLY FIRE DAMP DAM A most flor horrible catastrophe in a deep coal mine in ill yorkshire england london JULY 4 at thornhill yorkshire an explosion today to day ono hundred and thirty minors are entombed the days shi shift f t wont went to work as usual ua early learly this morning tho ventilation was lepor reported tod to be good all wont well at noon whon the workers at tho the pit mouth wore were startled start lod by a muffled explosion and by clouds of denso dense smoke rolling up the main shaft they tried to communicate with the workmen but found that tile tho interior had boon cut off from tho the shaft the pit managers organized an exploring party and descended slowly through the smoke they were drayon back bach repeatedly and eventually gave up their purpose of penetrating et rating to the working before tile tho foul gass could bo be cleared away after taking up the bodies found at tho the bottom of the shaft the rescue party waited several hours before making another descent descant about tile the middle of the evening they went down again the gags had cleared off on near the shaft and thoy they wore able to examine part of the workings ings tho the bodies of the minors lay in heaps many were sent to the surface unremitting efforts are being made to roach reach the few minors who may still bo be alive about are supposed to be killed between 11 and 12 so much gas accumulated in the mine I 1 that it is is necessary to stop tile the work of rescue the men and boys missing number the dead body of the under manager badly burned was w as found in the mino mine noar near the shaft denver news |