Show MANY MY ARE DEAD IN INlINE HORROR Believed d That All Al of the Entombed Men Are Lost Lost STORY OF HORR HORROR R TOLD x Fr Frantic Wives Doctors and Powerless Nurses I Powerless to Give r s. s A Assistance t ance V 4 I Monongah W TV V Vo VIL 1 Dec C. C J. Three iL-Three Three hundred v and md three seventy men en entombed entombed en- en ad and probably dead three men l killed their bodies burned to a crisp find and four COlI our others d dying in a n temporary hospital I Ihl This hl briefly summarized ono one of the tha greatest mine disasters of this century when an nn explosion today wr wrecked mines Nos 6 and S of ot th tho thi Consolidated Coal company upon the west wet bank lank of v iho tho West Fork river f The explosion lol caused by ga gas as in an abandoned shaft shae of oC mine No o 6 ignited t a gas filled gas CUed tunnel that connected the mines and caused a second detonation that wrecked the second mine The disaster occurred when nearly all al of or the men composing the da day had descended to their won work worl c The double explosion coming only a afew afew few seconds apart fairly rocked the earth carth Th The Tho detonation could be heard beard for tor el eight ht miles mies The reports in Monongah Monongah Monon- Monon gah ah deafening The buildings of or tho iho city tottered and wavered as if I the they would collapse Th The Tho pavements were and some ot of the frailest structures fell Cel In into to ruins S Cause C IN IH N ne of the Inhabitants had to ask asi the cause of or this They divined Instantly that thai another great reat mine horror horror hor lion had taken place Pedestrians and ant S. S o oven even horses were knocked ed off or their feet feet Street cars were derailed Fires started started start start- ed cd in various parts of or the city Rut nut all nI these thelo were minor Incidents to the chief horror Wives Jes and sisters of tho the en entombed entombed entombed en- en miners ln 1 living In cabins upon the outskirts of the city rushed to the tho shafts to find them blocked with wIh debris Tho The face faco of the tho hills his where these mines s were located located had been chan changed ed b bj by the upheaval Three hun hundred red feet from the opening of shaft shaf No 6 were tho the bodies of two of the miners who had he been en blown from the shaft by tho the force COIce of If tho explosion that had ripped loose the great groat supporting timbers and them In splinters for hundreds of or feet Ceet about thu tho mouth Gas Gns still Is Is- Is J- J forth from the choked up opening open open- ing of oC this mine and that of oC No o S S. S Tonight To To- night ton ten hours hour after ater the tho explosion Ar men are uc working In relays to reach the themen men entombed cd In tho the two mines On tho the hills hils o their wonc are arc 4 th th cho weeping weeping- wives and other relatives I of the tho entombed nj men n. n f 4 or I j r l OUCH OneN nn Tell I. I i hO V qu tour four men can cna- o Jh It C i rn 8 aV i. i gr t hOC throw lh Jn nt It ll stunned them for fora I Ip a n few feW seconds When they the regained rp aln t I p their feet fet th they y Haw a 0 0 great throng of or men back ot or them struggling to reach rench tho the levels an and 1 the thE outer air Still further b back ck or of this army was waa a second arm army of miners minors whose cries they hc could hear Thc These e were vere halt half haI stifled by th the tho KOSC gose GneM that threatened ned to choke choice the tho four When the tho first explosion came It was was almost In Instantly followed h by liy th the Then there thero wore were a number of lesser shocks as tho the unsupported galleries gal sal of the mine collapsed cd 1 S It Is la believed that tho the shock of ot the S. S explosion displaced nanny many of tho the heavier hen ier timbers limbers and that whole galleries where the unfortunate men were working working work work- In ing collapsed u upon on them In this ease case as the work of r reaching tin the tu entombed men will wl bo In Infinitely fn I e I greater Some Sonic of ot them are arc now believed to have tons S of earth between them and the outer world worM 5 FlickerIng Flume of or 1011 Hope e Tho only hope that they are alive olle Is f In tho the pos possibility that enough pure air all f remained In the mine to supply those J I who not crushed o outright ht j- j Tho The lour four our men who reached reachel the surface sunI sur sun I I face tace came came from mine No 6 The fact 1 that the cave In did ld not Instantly follow folo tollOW fol fol- tol- tol low the thc explosion In this mine gave av o these four tour a n chance to escape It I is not believed that they had penetrated I the workings of the mine so 80 far as the k others others Three who followed them were caught at nt the very ven entrance and blown outward and killed when the tho entrance I to tho mine caved In und and choked It It S- S Tho The fear rear h by the rescuers Is that the themen men who were trailing after ator the four fourr four four- four r how man many the four Cour men could not tell tell tell- tol- tol were caught b by the deadly gas that would rould accumulate Just back of the J choked entrance and that they died there of or suffocation fl So It wa wax wait that tha tonight the watchers watch watch- F ers era er upon the hills hils the the several cral hundreds t r I I from the city of Monongah who came Lj out to look on waited expecting to toti ti 1 hear war that the r rescuers w when n th they y penetrated pene pene- 1 the tho dirt and rocks that choke l that entrance to the shaft had come como f i I upon a heap of miners' miners hod bodies Ie Grim Ai nuU ul t Special trains have brought doctors and nurses and surgical appliances and an ani th the surgeons and BPS S like th the others S onI stand and watch for i f can only wa results j. j There J Is grave fear that no sur surgeon on I or nur nurse e can aid the entombed ed men i i I That theno are arc o past all al surgical aid la Js latho 5 tho the belief boUer In Monongah tonight 5 Near the choked up entrances to the thel l S mines are Plied piled pled more than caskets cas ens- keU deposited t there rt b by order of the e company as us a n silent witness or of their 5 S belief that few tew If any of their men I had escaped In tho the two mines 1000 men mn arc are em em- Five Fhe hundred of them workdays work ork days and the tho rest real nl nights It I was found b hy calling a roll roil of tho the minors miners tonight S l that wore were in the two mines at the t tima of or the thc double explosion Of these theseS S V six Ix have hn been blen brought to the th surface dead and five others escaped besides 5 the four tour whoso whose memories recall on only I. I 4 I a rush for the tle outer shaft One miner S made his hs exit exit through an air shaft J Clarence Watson president t of the I Consolidated Coal company who chartered charS char char- S n a special train from Crom Baltimore to i Monongah arrived here tonight and Is Isnow 5 stow now noW superintending the work of the theS ther S r rescuers FIve ity In s Re Ico Special trains ha have been arranged to toJ carry tho Injured If Ir any are recovered J I S S alive and a small smal arm army of ot physicians are aro In H- H The cloven men led hell by ny C. C K L. Caskill composing the first firstI hJ roscue party have h had hud their numbers I J by ly scores more Provisions have been sent lo to the thc mines b by the so 0 that thorp there will bo be no un- un wi company Interruption of ot tho work I So io for far tho the rescue par parties have ha c been ascertain the exact cause causo of ot unable to the the disaster dead bodies most burned lured Sixty five t e mollified mangled beyond recognition have and mi recovered lcd mom Hom mine min No t up to toI been Thirty four or of these S 1 o'clock others arc Hal Ital- The I 4 arc nrc SlaYs Slavs Tie Among moni the tho lead inns tana poleS civil cn engineer or of Fair Fair- Wise Is D D. D civi be made mado Into mount No No entrance can motor engineS on en- en ruino No S 8 je yet ct and on onI 0 in the 5 and cars gineS car c being demol- demol Can house I the or of air air cannot be cleared th the foul toul nIl out There Is only ono one possible way to entrance at present through a tunnel tun tan nel itel lel under tho river connecting tho mines Solitary SoUta Foreigner It Tho The tunnel is partly party caved in In but efforts are ore nite n 1 to In oit ir t f I It I may be bo late tomorrow tomorrow morro m morning r g gj j before before be be- fore Core mine No G 0 can be reached b by this route A new fan has been IHen brought and Is Ig being placed In No S 8 but the tho work worl Is slow So far tho the only living man rescued from the mines moines after the tho escape of or the tho first four Is an overcome forel foreigner ner found at 30 p. p m. m He lie Is unable to tell tel anything except that all al tho the men near him were ivero tak taken I by ly b by bythe bytho tho the explosion anti and probably all al klet killed Ho lie le was found half a mile mUe from 1101 the en entrance entrance en- en trance to No C. C Improvised morgues have havo been ar arranged arranged ar- ar ranged ne near r the mines The Tue corpses are arc heln being laid lold out In rows as the they are brought from rom the mines miles Hundreds of or anxious relatives 8 crowd crowt about trying in vain to recognize n the thc lOAd dead dot At 1130 o'clock tonight though fires arc are out find there thoro Is ho hope 0 that some somo of the entombed men nien will bo ho reached daybreak that hope is not before vcr very ery strong Most Moat Io t of or the dead are ure believed beHoved to bo ho foreigners |