| Show MEET DEATH IN EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP ATTENDED WITH RESULTS nearly two hundred men go to death in a mine not one in the I 1 aft at the time of the ex explosion ap lasion Es ap mg a As the result of a P ld that occurred monday in the harwich mine of the allegheny coal company at cheswick near pittsburg pa be tween and men are lying dead inthe la the headings and passageway passageways asa cige after cage bad had gone down nto the mine and come up again but only on miner of all those that went down to work in the morning has been brought to the surface the rescued man mark Is adolph gunia giania and he is still in a semi conscious cond tion at the temporary hospital at the rude schoolhouse school hous an the hillside above the mine the e occurred al at a m 0 the first warning was ras th the ru rumbling aing noise from underground and abena sheet of flame followed vp u mhd deep shaft both mine cages wre hurled through the tipple twenty fet feet above the landing stage and the three thre men on the tipple were thrown to the the ground A niu mule lowas was high above the shaft and fell dead the in aured men were wetle brought at once to pittsburg of them haqq bince since died As soon as the noise of the on and the crash at the pit mou amouta mouta I 1 I 1 startled tattled the littile village the ivyes jW yes and chil dren of the men below rushed to the scene of the disaster bit blit to gain no encouragement there was no way to get into ahe the deep workings the cages that let tae man into nto the mines and brought them out agan the day s o 0 worl R as done were both fot demolished all day long a R as a jam of moan ing women and children about the mouth of the pit there thre we e calls for assistance and for surgical aid from the men in charge of the mine but it t was not until 4 ap p in that the first at tempt at rescue was made this was a falling failure as the two men who volun jeered leered were driven back by the foul air shortly after 5 a clock selwyn selvyn M v taylor and one of his assistants ats a i g nailed for the engineer to lower them into the shaft another party went down later and found taylor taylors a dead body not a man in the mine at the time of the explosion escaped alive I 1 |
