Show I 1 rive 1 va V Idly TWENTY SIX MINERS ENTOMBED NINETEEN KNOWN TO BE DEAD PAlO VO INJURED MEN RESCUED Fate Pate of the Other Five is in Doubt as the Rescued Ones Are Too Ill III to Give Any Clue Clu a as to Their Condition POISONOUS GASES MAKING RELIEF WORK DIFFICULT Explosion Due to Breaking of Wall and Admission of Black BlackDamp BlackDamp BlackDamp Damp is Supposed to Be the Direct Cause Calise of the Accident OWNER AND WIFE ASSIST O 0 O H f H 4 t-f t H f ff f f f H f tL 4 3 t Benton Iii Jan 10 Twenty Twant Twenty Twenty- 4 six miners were entombed and 4 f 4 nineteen of ot them are known mown to 44 4 4 have been killed b by a 3 mysterious 4 f explosion shortly after midnight 4 f this morning In the famous mine 4 4 of or lh the Zeigler Coal company at att t 4 Zeigler Nineteen bodi bodies all but 44 4 4 two of ot them identified have hae been been 1 f 4 tal taken en out of or the mine and two lit lit- 4 t f miners Ine ha have been rescued 4 r p. me Tn otner ave uvo or oc thO thio night shift shUt 1 y- y have not be been n found round 4 Joseph Joeeph L Loiter lter 1 president re of or the 4 f- f Zel ler Coal company came cameto to tot i t 4 Zeigler from Chicago accompanied f 4 panted by hl his bride several sc weeks 44 4 4 ago to fight tight a n stubborn fire In Int t 4 4 the mines and they were still till J iii Hl 4 town when the tho news of or the tho crt ex- 4 1 10 01 le reached Ch d them Mrs tel Liel- 4 ter tel hastened to- to the to-the th the mine with her 4 4 husband and did what v t cho could 4 t 4 tto to comfort the widows and ihU- ihU hU hUdren 4 r y 4 dren who flo Ut tho r t rl pr or b tA D h. h i 2 r t 11 c T Tr Y r TT TOn I T On account Oh-account account of ot the tho P OI nouh s that tho t Killed tile the mn t tho o p tt that went tJ down 16 wn wr WoN were ro in n gr great danger cl thOy tl i y wore wort force l beCk O Ck ok l bV b y tho the Jl lou vapors that hid iad en t rulA Ithe I I the men of ot the tho nl nIght ht shift J lil t Finally on one party 1 with t te e bodies o of three miners all ajl badly burned burne The fatherless sa s ss v cro crowd crowL J. J nr around und the ma made do a ru rush ll tor th m. m p and nd ae u soon no As they thoy thoy d. d Y a a. wall Vent went UP un from J ae so wh beon been near and door dear to ta iro m 1 V I Out Oat t lh tad l' l From that time Hmo on tho ho work of Jr tait tah t j 5 1 lug ng out tho the dead w went nt rJ rapidly l ly on QU It Three bodies were so 0 bad badly disfigured that th thoy have hav not h been en identified A qu of oC coal conI was waa hoisted a yesterday ann it ws was the Intention of ot the t to put on the usual force of or miners thid w Week k At midnight yesterday esterday the 26 6 6 men of oC th tb the were lowered d into the thlu A f fIr fw w Ir minutes later a small amaH very vory blade black smoke rose from the shaft T. T fht re was no report lepot nothing nothing- whatever to IndiCate in indicate Iii In- that th there re was trouble below belo except this one uie gust of of- moze The Tha engineer er saw aw It it summoned assistance as- as and sent maW Inert down to In- In f r The gas ga and polson poisonous us I vapors were ere ere t then tien so thick that had bad h d to retreat r trent hastily to o pre le t ut Experienced perlen ed miners here belleve be- be that the disaster was du dap tc to th the breaking of ot a a. wall in ori on of orthe tho working work work- tug lug places letting out II g quantity of or orb b 10 fJ k damp Th The two me men mer who were taken out ut alive are too to weak and ill to tell ten what they ow of the Cl accident eldont or 01 or to gly Sto vany n I any aid to the rescuers In Ira the se search ch f v for tho the five IV men ot h shift hift not yet 4 accounted for I vi |