Show MEN BY ILA IF OF HS CS I 1 two hundred or more lives lost in pennsylvania mine many being americans third mine D in the saturnin CDS ous coal fields since the first of the month swells the number of victims to between and jacob s creek pa an explosion of gas in the darr mine of the pitts burg coal company located here on thursday entombed between and miners and there Is scarcely a ray of hope that a single one of them will be taken from the mines alive partially wrecked buildings in the vicinity of the mines and the condl tion of the few bodies found early in the rescue work indicate an explosion of ich terrific force that it seems impossible that any one could have survived Bur surN lived Ived it all of the bodies taken out were terribly mutilated and three of them viere a headless this is the third mine disaster since the first of the month in the veins of bituminous coal underlying western pennsylvania and west vir ginia ginta for the naomi mine near fay ette city and the two mines at mo AID W va in which the earlier explosions happened are in the same as workings thurs days day s catastrophe swells the number of victims of deadly mine gas for the nineteen days to between and that this latest disaster does not equal or even surpass in loss of life and attendant horrors the one in west virginia Is due to the devotion to church duties of a considerable num ber of the miners in observance ot of the church festival many of the four hundred or more men regularly cm em aloyed at the mine did not go to work those who escaped through this reason are members of the greek catholic church and they suspended work to celebrate st nicholas day A considerable number of the min ers were americans some of the of fibers intimating that probably more than half of the victims are ameri amerl cans |