Show THE KANSAS HOLOCAUST I 1 ONE of the most appalling pictures of suf suffering feling and helplessness which human beings are ever compelled to gaze upon may be and often is the result of a thomous explosion in a coal mine containing a large number of miners frequently the latter are as helpless to aid or er rescue themselves or to avert or postpone the horrible death which stares them in ahe face as though all ail their imbs were paralyzed the kansas holocaust described in the als dispatches patches contained in this issue is an illustration of the horrors which may at any time overwhelm the coal miner employed in mines where natural causes give rise to dangers which are not properly s guarded carded against the experience of et barnes the miner rescued after ha having lain so 0 long unconscious is more terrible than is often described in the boldest and most graphic fiction and the anguish of the poor women whose husbands tod and sons were imprisoned in ia the mine baffles adequate or that one lot of them should gave Kr ve been conveyed from the scene of horror a raving maniac is not surprising in the he cause of the explosion in this mine seems to be wrapped in mystery the theory that coal dust by being ignited could produce suc such h a powerful explosion that being the suggestion of the superintendent of the mine seems hardly plausible enough for credence the other theory the dispatches say has been suggested that a pocket of natural gas was struck and ignited would account for the mechanical effects P produced 0 deuced it the coroners cor onera inquest result in fixing upon the owners of I 1 t diw 0 mine the responsibility for auy any kind of neglect as the cause of the disaster they should be dealt with as severely as the law will permit for to place a large force of men in a position as helpless as is that of a coal ainer and fall facto to take necessary precautions for their safety is aggravated ly criminal |