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Show MEET DEATH IN MINE EXPLOSION OF FIRF. DAMP AT- TENDED WITH FMGHTFUL RESULTS. Nearly Two Hundred fcn Go to Death In a Mine, Not One In the Shaft at the Time of the Explosion Escaping. As tho result of a tcrrlblo explosion that occurred Monday In tho liarwiek mlno of tho Allegheny Coal .company nt Chcswlck, near Pittsburg, Pn., between be-tween ISO and 190 men nro lying dead In tho headings and passageways. Cngo after cage had gono down into tho mlno nnd como up again, but only one 1 minor of nil thoso that went down to work in tlio morning has been brought to tho surface Tho rescued mnn is Adolph fiunln, nnd ho Is still In a semiconscious semi-conscious condition nt tho tompornry hospltnl nt the rude schoolhouso on tho hillside abovo tho mine. Tho explosion occurred nt 8:20 n. m Tho first warning was tho rumbling nolso from underground ,and thon a sheet of flame followed up tho deep shaft. Both mlno cages woro hurled through tho tipple, twenty feet abovo tho landing stage, nnd tho thrco men on tho tlpplo wore thrown to tho ground. A mulo wns thrown high abovo tho shaft and fell dead. The injured in-jured men woro brought nt once to Pittsburg, wboro two or them havo slnco died. I As soon ns the nolso or tho cxplos'ou and tho crash nt the pit mouth startled tho lltttlo vlllago tho wives and children chil-dren or tho mon below rushed to tho sccno or tho disaster, but to gain no encouragement. There wns no way to got Into tho deep workings. Tho cages that let tho men Into tho mines nnd brought them out again when tho day's work was, done woro both demolished. All dny long thero was a Jam of moaning moan-ing women and children nbout tho mouth of tho pit. Thero woro calls for asslstanco and for surgical aid from the mon In chnrgo of tho mlno, but It wns not until 1 p. m. thnt tho first attempt at-tempt at rescuo was made This was a failure, ns the two men who volunteered volun-teered woro driven back by tho foul nlr. Shortly after 5 o'clock Solwyn M. Taylor and ono or his nsslstnnts signalled sig-nalled for tho onglneor to lower thorn Into tho shart. Anothor party went down later and found Tnylor's dead body. Not a man In tho mlno nt the tlmo of tho explosion escaped alive. |