| Show F Fw w r. r WOR I IN O lAHOMA COAL MINt MINE Miners Imprisoned In Burning Shaft Being Suffocated Because of De DeJ of Air Shaft Okla More More than thirty minors miners wore were suffocated la In Ola Hally-Ola coal mine No 1 at four miles cast east of Wednesday morning when fire destroyed the hoisting shaft and air shaft and cut cutoff cutoff cutoff off air from tho the men below Twenty five dead bodies were brought out out Wednesday night following follow follow- ing tog a successful three hours' hours with the tho flames It is believed that six or eight more will bo be found I Twenty m mules los were suffocated t and some of their bodies were burned Explorations in tho channels revealed revealed revealed re re- re- re tho the fact that none of tho the men met death by burning but that all of oi them theta were suffocated After the tho entombed miners had gono gone down down on the cage a fire broke out occasioned by the Ignition of a I barrel of oil which a miner was trying try tryIng trying ing to divide The flames spread at once to tho the hoisting shaft and the air shaft and all aU communication with the top was at once cut off o. Tho The first Intimation Intimation In In- tho the people on top of ot the ground had of ot the trouble was the flames and smoke coming out of the top of tho the shaft Hundreds of ot miners min ers erg rushed to the tho scene and tried to get Into the air shaft but this was Impossible as flames and smoke were coming up that way with such force as to drive them back Then an effort effort ef ef- ef fort was made to operate the cages running up and down the hoisting shafts but it was found that the cages the tho cables and the guides had bad been burned There was absolutely no help for the imprisoned miners |
