Show 1116 MISSING IN MINE DISASTER TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN pennsylvania COLLIERY ENTOMBS MANY WORKERS fear expressed that entire crew la Is dead thousand men man are engaged in rescue work deadly gas hinders aid johnstown pa ila and minors miners are entombed with almost no chance of bellig rescued alive following it terrific gas explosion nt at ai 15 monday morning in the num lier bar ono one dinino of tile licitly coal coin party at spangler Span filor iu ill 23 25 antles north of hero here word from tile company officials ro re calved just before noon said tho the mine wits still filled with PUB gas and it wits was impossible to send rescue crows crews down below lj tons of debris block tile shaft ah feet from the entrance ont ranco and tho the on bombed men aro are behind this barrier with till all air cut orf off lack back of air alone will kill hill tho the mia men in a short time exports say noon tile tho nir forts were repaired and tire again operating but tills affords scarcely any hope that any of tile tho entombed men will be taken out alive alho by noon a tho thousand wand minors miners from nearby points had reached tho the mine they tire equipped with pas gas masks find at noon they began digging furl audly nt at tho the tons of debris tumbled town down by the great explosion Ilo causo tit alio mine la Is still filled with gas the res rescued cuen fire aro to romain down hut but a fow few nt at a time the shaft li Is hilf halt a milo loop deep and the scene of the li 14 about halt it milo mile back from tile bottom of tho the shaft there is 13 but oile ono eutta entrance nce to tho the mine ilow how serious tile tho debris obstruction Is belil behind rid which tho the miners aro are trapped lias has not been ascertained woul word of tho the disaster spread through out cambria county and othar see eions with great ecat rapidity and telo tale phone luckea advices slid sald that tho workers are to the mine anti and rolay crews are making an effort to rescue tho the entombed men whether dead or alive at 30 10 pas gas in the shaft was still so dense that it was wag impossible to send bend in rescue parties with ath the nir fans demolished there la Is no way of getting the men out at present find any attempt to enter would mean quick to all ho attempted it A few minutes after the disaster ds aster the entrance to tile alio mine was surrounded with hundreds of 0 wives find and children of the men down below wo ivo men luen were desperate na as tho the word wits flashed about that there was not one chance in a million that any of tho the men could be rescued res cited allio alivo some rome of tile tho women had to be retained by others |