| Show 0 HUNDREDS perish IN A T MINE ini 4 fa death h L lis jr i s k readies reaches nearly eleven hund hundred red per ei sons while many rescuers lose their I 1 i il i 3 lives trying to reach them PARIS march 12 the ha worst fears the extent of the mine disaster in intro the district of 0 the PBS pas C de do calais saturday morning ing have t been realized the death list num ber berat eleven hundred and the whole of tha 1 region inanda appalled at the terrible tragedy which baa has brought sorrow to za six th thousand busand f fathers athers mothers mo there wives and children tho the last great mino mine disaster in france occurred in when two hundred and ninety three persons were killed and eighty injured but that and all others sink into before en the vast mortuary camp lu is under military guard four hundred soldiers having arrived thero thoroton to assist in holding in check the tho crowds crowd of distracted mourners for a time hope had been held out to the people that tapp mappings tap pings logs on an pipes by the imprisoned men man had been heard but gradually this hope vanished VAOl shed and the people peoria demanded demaud ed adini admission silon to se see the bodies and even to break their way through the cordon of troop troops who had the greatest in keeping the crowds frona frosa the pit one man named 8 silvester ivester succeed ed ced d in enter entering lug tho the mine but he dover never returned it Is believed be he groped about inside until ho he was overcome by the gases and perished it Is reported that a rescue party numbering fony forty baa has been out cut ott off by the caving in of one of al the galleries minister of public works gauthier mints minister berof of the interior dublet and anti the secretary of president bailleres Fall FaIl lerea leres remain maltion on tho ground endeavoring to comfort tho the dit distressed families of the miners president Pies ident fallieres Fall feres has given tw thousand dollars to aid in relief measures the ministry will add and a f further urther sum to lails and the cha chamber of deputies will bo be asked to vote one hundras thousand dollars forthe put poso pose of alleviating distress of eighteen hundred miners who were down la in the pita pits when the explosion occurred six hundred and seventy throe were working in pit no 4 four hundred and anti eighty two in hundred and seventy one in pit no 4 2 and the remainder in pit no 1 I those rescued i bakon out as follows from pit no f 4 one hundred and ninety pit no 3 sixty five fifteen escaped through pit no 11 II four hundred and anti ninety mm up f from rom pit no 3 2 and seventy four from pit no 1 A number berott of liese were injured and some of them have lied aled since at chri prea more than a thousand mn men imprisoned A director i declared that the imprisoned men man numbered eleven hundred dublet inquired have you still any hi hope chipell pell to thi this the director replied no I 1 believe all till of them are dead leou leon cerf fono of tho men rescued and who still is buffering suffering from the tar terrible effects of his experience said 1 41 I was working with a gang when the explosion occa occurred the foreman 1 I kund lately shouted for us to follow him and anti dushing dashing into 4 i recess in the go ge celery lery we wele lot hollowed lowed by a blast of pol poisoned getse gsg which rushed by however without affecting us we remained there for hours when feeling that was gradually diming upon ue us we attempted to escape we crawled in n ing file toward tho but ii everal of the men dropped dead 00 or the tho way idi ID 10 i cluda ra ray apt and the foreman I 1 carried my nephew on ray my back for forty minutes and succeeded in saving hie hits it tol tool us four hours to reach the shaft for the litno being the mitta rot build las jaw hall has batu transferred into a wor auary chuml wr and all about lu it tho carbonized and almot almost bodies of miner which wore taken hen thero ao as they wen brought brugh t up from the mine Strick ea relatives arrieu at the tile mine building from froin time za time thue searching arching ee for inisi lug members of their families and Ind escrib able of grief occur its a women I 1 recognize loved onue ones heartrending seen too tin aro fall it lies I the mouth of pit no 4 where lu in the presence of I 1 dublet and gauthier Oaut ahe bands of I 1 aiu ate continually descending bd fetui ning with bodies ilia wo with childr aa in their amis arnis attempt tep lo 10 meak through tho the cordon of troops which forma forms a lano lane through which the body bearers proceed to the mortuary chamber sometimes home times the burden consists con alata of a mere more heap of burned hesh and in nearly every case tho the body la Is terribly lacerated only one half of the bodies recovered havo have been identified despite the danger incurred the volunteers ano include a number of those who were ere successful in ing at the time of the explosion do not hesitate to descend the abaft some of them have been down flown more than a dozen times one of them after having brought up fourteen bodies was suffocated on an his fifteenth attempt and it la to feared that other fatalities tali ties les among the volunteers volun teera will follow as tho air in the mine la Is still impregnated with noxious gases A number of the men engaged ic in rescue work bavo have already bem been brought to the surface unconscious aad as they were driven to their homes in closed cart lages the women followed and broke the windows suspecting that bodies were being hurried away several miners have come up from pit no 11 which Is connected with pit no 3 they effected their escape by means of a ladder and as they came from the mouth of the pit they appeared to be bordering on madness all of them were more or less injured when asked about thrle comrades one of them wild at at is horrible all of them are dead replying to an inquiry as to whether hofere hope remained for the finding of more men in the mine an engineer who had been down the butt shaft said it ie Is scarcely possible the state d the galleries is such that clearing them will bo a task while the flames weis so fierce that many of the victims muot hare have been ledues to ashes it is thought hardly possible that many bodies will be b recovered for several anya on account of the biffl difficulty of reaching the bottom bottoni of the pits the runners on which the cages descend being broken or bent the engineers me ate endeavoring to devise means foro for cating locating thadna berous zones in and aerating the galleries T at pit no 3 Is completely dovir blo clr wt 41 and the authorities are the ad Is disability of dropping it i heavy mass of metal iowa town the shaft in order to clear it and thus enable them to descend and learn the worst party of kauers fetish mish PARIS march 14 an additional disaster following today upon the terrible calamity that befell the workers in tho th coal mal mine at Courrier ea on an saturday has hus cut cust its shadow over the stricken ken town one otie patta said to consist of seventeen men inen who went into int the mine for the purpose of recovering reco the bodler of thoi who perished pu saturday lost their livo in the under undertaking aking th o 0 ay demanded deeo dec ended in spite of the recognized danger of or the attempt und and in the face of the engineers warnings ainest making a further effort offer the chamber of deputies has unanimously voted one hundred thousand dollars for the relief of the victims of tho the disaster the in iners liua has voted forty thousand dollars forthe for the same P purpose U |
