Show r I 1 att FOUR HUNDRED DEAD FIRE IN COAL MINE PAINE BRINGS SOR ROW TO MANY DEPENDENT UPON WORKERS after attar every effort had been made to extinguish flame flames mine Is sealed up and all hope of escape of entombed men abandoned cherry ills four hundred men and boys perished as the result ot of a terrific explosion in la the dt tit paul mine on saturday the mine has bas a day shift of men of these a few left the mine before the explosion occurred the others doubtless are dead the fire causing the explosion which may prove one of the creates greatest trag edles in the list of mine horrors had an origin almost l at pile of bay allowed to too long finally ignited the timbers of the mine and before the worean realized their dan ger the mine was filled with smoke gases gazes and tiamen aad and all exit ws wes ina 1 possible great heroism ars shown by om dais claim and residents of cherry these men who were outside the mine when the fire started contributed five to the list of the known deal dead by rushing into the mine trying to eave save the doemel men after every effort to extinguish the flames bad had proven futile the shaft of the burning mine was sealed this ended all hopes of the escape of the imprisoned men the st 84 paul mine ie Is the only one in the town and provided for almost 1000 aren among the missing are many americans who have lived in the mining sec see tion of illinois for years though the majority of those who may never bo be found alive are foreign for ign born yet all had their homes here hero or in the our rounding round lne towns and villages grief over their probable fate has cast a pall over the community |