Show W tofy s 1 ta t iv A y BE AD f 1 1 i 1 I 1 R N COAL M MINE I 1 N E 13 BRINGS RI 4 SOR N OW TO tb MAIV MANY DE DEPENDENT PEND E NY UPON WORKERS y fr h i afi ta aftel av e r y effort extort had been made tto 1 edtih golsh flames mirie mine Is I 1 1 r V sealed up q and nd all hope of ba ca 1 escape of entombed f men abandoned jia t r i t y nC cherry scherry ills four hundred men and boys bays perished perish edas as the result of bf a ter terrific rifle on lin in tho the st kit urmine Pa mine on sat yi arday y the mine ll 11 has s A 0 day s shift hift of men of these a few left the mine before th the e explosion oc occurred u rr ed the others doub doubtless fiess are dead tho the fire causing the explosion which may prove on one of the greatest trag edles boles in the list of mine torton horrors had an origin almost al a at pile of ha hay allowed to too long finally ignited cited the timbers of the mine ail and d r before the realized their clanger the mine was filled with smoke gases an and df flames lames ano andall all exit ws w s im IS possible great libro heroism ism was shown by om 4 bials ami ahil residents of ch cherry ei these A 1 bieni nien who wiio were ahe mine when the fire started contributed five to the list of the known dead by rushing into tho the mine trying to save the doomed men i after every effort to extinguish the i V flames fiad adoro proven en futile the shaft ft of the ad burning arping mine mine was pe sealed pealed alef this e r d al all 1 lib hopes pad of the escape of the I 1 aiu vi 1 N f imprisoned men ply jhb Thi sSt 14 st me I 1 ne Js I 1 the I 1 oi only ly gnp s H in n t the e town and provided employ employment ment ax t l r aliw 1000 ien on 1 T VVs V 5 4 i 1 i H aa mone among t the ie missing are alemany m any americans 1 who h have adof lived in trie mining section of illinois tor for years though the majority 0 of f those who may never neve r jie be V found alive aro are foreign born yet I 1 all ll 11 had their ahei homes here herd or orin in the sur founding afi g towns towns and villages grief over their probable fate has cast a pall over the community |