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Show HORROR IN COAL MINE If I 1W1I Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Miners Killed iifelH by the Explosion of Gas in a IKIIwH l!;liltlhSBlssssssss Tennessee Colliery. llfiilll'fflH HiliB Of Entire Number of Men Who Went to Work Yesterday at Fraler IItoI'IPbH ville but One Is Alive and lie Cannot Live-Rescuers Walk flllt!(BH Alons One Continuous Tomb of Death-Bodies Recovered ifflMlt'M.BB iHnCi '? W H sssH Not Disfigured Beyond Identification. fP!lMW JllsiH Coal Creek, Tenn Mny 10 Relween I 17! and 2J5 men und Ikivs met Instant I death nt tho Tintervllie coil mine lo cited two miles west nf thl town, at 7 W n i lock this moiulng, bcciuse of a gas oNplosion, Of the 1 irge nuiuler of men nnd bojs who went to work thl inclining, onlv one Is alive, and he la ssi bid!) Injured that he cannot live '! Ills man I Willi im Morgan, nn nged Englishman, English-man, who wnsw itMdmnn in the mine lie wns blown out of the entruue lis tho fono nf the explosion OVER TWO HUNDRED VICTIMS One bundled nnd sev cuts -live miners min-ers weie checked In tor wink tills morning by the mine boss In addition to tbesti th-le were boss who acted us belpeis und drivers and roulmen und others to the number of peril ips fifty. A partial list cif the victims, si a reel)' one-thltd, follows DEAD George Alklns, mine foreman, head blown off Jcimes Hlghtnwer. Robert Smith Itolert Price. James Hlover. William Price. Rosroe Rrndley. Willliim llradlov. Thornton .McOhee. I Charles Vandegrlt. W J Evans Charles Evans. Charles ltrooks. Oscar Mil nny. William VIui my. Mirlou Wilson. Italics Wilson Mnndy Webber. Carl Discern. Samuel Discern. James White. John White. John While, Jr. Wnlter White. Ilnnnle Vowel nnd two sons. Richard Mnsslnglll. Scott Hudson. George Atkins James Whltten nnd 10-s ear-old son. Ed Sorrel nnd lf,-v ear-old son. John Alklns nml two uni, Jnmes Strickland. Peter Childress. William Childress. John Childress James Childress. Joe Stnllley. Edward Smlltey. i Chat les Adklns. Hosd Adklns. Prank Sharp. Oscar Sharp. Rufu Webb Leon Mlllei. ltoscoe Miller. Ren Sharp Albert Gnodmnn, ('It Hlghtower. ThomiiH Disney. , ENVELOPED IN FLAME. The Tralervllle inlno Is the ol lest mine In the Coal Creek district, bnv-Ing bnv-Ing heen opened ln 1870 It Is fullv three miles from the opening of tho mlno tn the point where tho men were at work. They had not been nt work long before the terrible explosion oc-curred. oc-curred. There was n fearful roar und ' 'V' Vi .''HI tssssssl r,fcilH . rUf keI' Hi then nnme shot from tho entrance and .vi ,;i t.Ti'iHHBl the air shifts ti.-li ! i.H'HBsl RESCUE PARTIES START IN P ft '! iW.'HBB As soon ns possible two rescuing A Sfi ! .ISll pnilles were started In, one at tho Ir. 1 i !j!jH main entruue, the other through tho X .f t ,t K : Wssssl Thistle mine, which adjoin und In M f 'WBHsl wlilc ti no men were at work Tho W , iLliMBssssi Thistle party was unable tn make any ' . ittfflll headwiis, ns the gns stilled the work- ,M' I iSWBB rrs The Tralervllle, patty went full uk f 'itllH two miles under tile eirth until a .-S4 IifWiHHI licitvs fall of slate wns encountered. X 4 ,, 'H'ijlsM .it thin Imrrler men worked deeper- '(, , $( ffnB cilels, hoping against hopo that thoso ,j',V .irvanBHl bi'sond might be sife ' ' t H W IjHfl AWTU1. SCENES AT MINE iik t;:'ff The news nf tho disaster spread ,''; u'VilrSHl epilikls and the scones at the mouth of jtjf. , t JISI the mine while the workers were with r&Mt , '' lul were besmid description Ituilncs frvt , J !W wns suspended In Coal Cre k nnd nil , ', '. )!9H Its mines as soon ns the new be nmo !VvL 4i itflLV known shut down and men women ,,v !l llHkssssssi and children gathered mound the Tnv i ifflBBl tervllle entrance Women whose bus- be 'J , . l'.M binds mid sons worn within were wild - ,., ( I.JIIBbii with grler ' H ' , SLATE OBSTRUCTION RKMOVT.D. H t hilllHfl All dciy long tho rescuers tolled at L 1 J'V 'HhHb tbe hlatu nbsttuctlon and not until 5 'tf4) '-, 'inHI o'clock dlil they force on entrincn Lk'I1"-1! 'HHHl through It Up lo that hour only nvo "jm-J tj 'i'iIBBHI dead bodies hid been icenvered, nnd SMM nuHBHl hope was high that many miners with- !',; si,', rjlOBsssl In weio w.ifc. Jllfl i'sssBBsi TOME OT DEATH. $Sif' a wM Hsi The hopes nf (he living were doomed, tsjfjt' ,'t hnunifip for wlipn iinpn the rosrucra J s&tti, 1 1 si llW Pissa had e nlered nnd I roceeded, they BifKis, ( iH H walked along nno continuous tomb nt iSSjlk tl M sVjja denth. There wns not a sign or life. ISIjEWiTiJ J J .HI Every man had perished, they bo ! ijKj&fCti.r'i'i' B-H lleved, nlthough It will bo early-mom- jarffiy' & 1 I Hjl Inr before nil tho rooms can bo en- MjlY"&fi-M I tercd. ilPllHl IIODIES RECOVERED. 'S 8r ! 1 Bfl Eight dead bodies wero llrst recov- jf JPftjl, il H end, and these wtru sent tnCn.al Cre-ck. ' 'Vir II Hsi Twetits six morn wero snciu found. f,A It' Is fl H They were not disfigured, beyond Iden- 'Ift&irf II ftl tlllcitlnn, und c ich corpse us it wan tvj'lU i; BVJ borno from the mou 111 of tho great RC jSJj ' ii t tomb, was surrounded bs eager crowds aMS K;' H nf relatives nf the men who had been -wSk $ a H stricken down. The mine Is not on joiJJ ;! It H llro oxoniit In remote nortlons. and nit : 5KftXi! . Jls Hil the bodlis will pel baps bo reichcd bo- mm ' ( 41 H fine daylight. vVJm ;'t. 11 Hi SOMETHING AROUT COLLIERY. k!; )' H Tho Trntcrvlle mlno Is owned by tho tHF f J H Coal Creek ceimpiny, of which MaJ. IJmK M' ijf H ! C. Cnmp Is president Ho wns ln )' 2: H Cincinnati, nnd Is now hurrying to the KaKui Jri H scene of the disaster. KiBcl ' ill Hsi |