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Show I-m IN HI DtPLOH Disaster Occurs in Prussian Property, One Hundred and Sixty Being Killed Fatal Fire Damp Brings Death to Throng of Workmen, the Poisonous Poison-ous Gasses That Filled the Chambers Hampering Work of Rescuers. Sanrbruck. A flro damp explosion cciyrcd Monday morning In the , Jtedjah coal mlno at St. John-on-Stnr, ppasite Saarbuck, and caused the oss of from 1G0 to 200 lives. The tnlije is owned by the Prussian gov eminent. Seventy-seven bodies had been broght out and fifty-six corpses aro known to bo underground. Only fifty live men have been brought out, and ol theso the doctors say at least thlr-ty-fivo will die, as they aro frightfully fright-fully injured through having been hurled against the walls of tbo galleries galler-ies by tho forco of the explosion. An official .report says the numbor of dead cannot exceed ICO. Immediately after tho explosion rescue res-cue workers were hurried from nil the adjacent mines and boldly entered lie I ted en shaft In great numbers. The work of rescuo has been greatly hampered by tho poisonous gases resulting re-sulting from tho explosion and by a florco Are that broko out immediately afterward. This caused efforts at rescuo res-cuo to bo suspended, and tho workers had to bo ordered out of tho mine. Aftor all tho rescuers had reached daylight, according to ono version, a Becond terrific detonation wns heard underground. Dut according to another an-other roport many of tho . rescuers wore still bolow when tho second explosion." ex-plosion." occurred, and it is estimated that the casualty list from tho two ox-plosions ox-plosions reaches a total of 300 men. It is regarded as certain that tho lowest levels of tho mine aro com-plotoly com-plotoly wrecked, and tho Inspector? aro deliberating upon further measures meas-ures to got control of tho fire. Tho managers are discussing tho advisability advisa-bility of flooding these levels as tho only means of extinguishing the flames. It is believed that all tho men who wore in tho lower levels assuredly assured-ly aro dead. It will take a full week to enter and cxploro the mine. |
