Show AWFUL DEATH OF ONE HUMORED UNDRED ani TWENTY FIVE LIVES LOST BY EXPLOSION IN PENN SYLVANIA hs alx hundred ili mer n nt at raj r rk ulia lien the hie 1 I 11 1114 4 burrl arrel DI many y of aliu it all al 11 ll 1 I its H it if by a Alil alilce cl avio ti 0 hundred it adred coal yere ivere entombed by tin an explosion in tile oal on I 1 company a lual mine I 1 chobe main shaft opens within th llie limits of johnstown I 1 a and are probably dead rhe mine is one of tile largest in tile the country arid COO men were at work there nt at tile time of tile explosion 11 men lien the news of the disaster reached johnstown it spread like wildfire and in lets less than it quarter of an hour tile point an open sanco nt at tire junction of the Coin magh and tile the stoney ci creeks beeks was crowded vt with ith weep ing women and children bhae ill a a attempts at I 1 acue were made mining I 1 algote and ins ilia assiat ant A 6 j frosst ir tried to make some soine headway headway to toward aid the imprisoned miners thice and one half miles away but they were driven buck back by bv the do idly gasses It richard ichard bennett and jolia MC era fineis cinci s who ho wet a I 1 in n tile mine it at the time of the explosion but who v I 1 D n escaped went buck back two I 1 idilea i I 1 Q S to see what assistance abs istance could be ren dered but they too were ere di dirven iven bick by the damp and reached the till eabold hold just in time to full fall blien the attempt to to do uny any r acue work bioni the main hopeni opening 11 g was Hs given up tip and it was shifted to mill creek five miles from jamestown rhe mining officials of tile the ambida company stated slated the basone waa one of file dump the ilia few survivors who have escaped floru tho deitlin of the ilia mine dest tibe the conditions to be frightful in their nature that many of who were thought thou glit last night to bo be still in tl e mine will be able to survive until readied reached by the patty is not thought nioba lie blei the explosion tb the g an all all ah over ever the llie bl bit mine ine became ego SO foul that een cen vilh ith the huge pumps worthing woi wol liing thing to their full capacity rind and tile the air they supply t tinned it aa L I 1 into tile proper to reach the imprisoned nien men none of lit alie a luttle officials would hold out an bo liepe lle fui fol tile the lives of 0 those thought to be still in the mine pr aident power blockhouse has en out the following statement the ilie disaster is an unusual one and came on us UN entirely unexpectedly gedly 1 ahe I he mine had been inspected only three thre a days ago and was pronounced in balla catl 6 factory condition in ili the thirty years that the mine has been in opel operation atlo n no serious accident has occurred 1 llie I lie cause is yet indefinite but I 1 believe it was caused by gas gaa esca escaping f from r th the e fifth healing heading 1 which was clo closed sed om and was not being befog worked because it contained gas in the sixth heading beading number is 13 now ow placed at al no lists of the names of the dead can bergiven be riven given for the majority of them were foi eigners and were only known by check and not by name the only other way names will ever be known I 1 if f the bodies lit aie a not dot I 1 ed in time for identification will III be b their families sending aeu ilice their narnee to us hit mine in which the explosion occurred is one of the largest coal mines in the united states according acco iding to the bbate ment of officials from the en trance in the hill across tile river from froin the point to the one at al mill creek is IL distance of three and tirel miles |