Show MINERS TRAPPED DEATH MK All I Seventy Nine Seventy Seventy- Nine Believed to Have Been Killed in West Virginia l ENTOMBED BY EXPLOSION Cage until Shaft Splintered Cutting Oil OfT Avenue A of Escape for lor lorIen Men Ien In Peep Deep Pit Thurmond Thurmon W. W Yo Va Jan 30 Seven 30 Seven ty nine miners nr are believed to have lost their lives by a terrific explosion In the th Stewart mine live five miles from I here on the Chesapeake Ohio railroad rail rall- roa road i What caused the explosion can cnn not be bo learned learn and an no theory luis has yet ret been advanced ad as a solution Tho mine cage was demolished timbers were shattered to splinters and the tho roof root ItIs It ItIs Itis is believed tell felt In lit and burled buried the miners under tons of or c il timbers and other oUter material The m men n were working hundred hun huh tired dred re feet from front tho the bottom of or the shaft which is rl GO feet teet lIl deep CP and It will be a matter to reach leach them Before anything can cart bo be done donea ono a new Hew mine cage will trill have ha tb lb bo be built and an it j is not probable that it H can be bo lowered into Inlo time tho mine until repairs are on mao made to the shaft This done dono the entries will doubt be found to 10 be blocked blocke with wreckage which have to 10 be removed before rt rescuers can ean get back Into th mine millo The air all courses will have to be closed and anti air all forced forcell Into tho the rooms o anidas nd as tho the situation looks hooks it will rt rl several days dag to remove c the men The Tho mine is owned b by Samuel Exon and as associates and Is located two miles of the time Farrell Parrell mine In h hI 26 an art explosion occurred February I last resulting In the death dalh of ot 28 8 m mien nn n. n The rho mine is ig located on a branch s of th the Chesapeake Ohio rou road mine ha has been considered perfectly safe and had hall been under operation only about a a. year eur It was one of or l tie tIO ie finest equipped mines In the Held field and aud every very precaution has hus been taken to prevent accidents One hundred and twelve miners went into the tho mines this morning 11 during the tiny day la three thirty came carno ou out by actual count leaving seventy nino In Jn tho the mine mint The heat and smoke prevented attempts at nt lowering a temporary torn tom cage an and mine Inspectors noW on tho the ground roun declare there IB Is no ito that nn any or of tho those e entombed can call bu be alive c I |