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Show SCRANTON, Pa.. April 7. Without a moment's warning 4- 50 men and boys aro believed to have perished today In a mine fire in the Price-Pan- 4- coast colliery at Throop, three miles from here. Some estl- mates placo tho number at CO. Three bodies have been recov- ercd. John Evans, head of the United" States tobcuo car, dloS at 9" o'clock tonight. Jl defective rescue- holmot caused him ,to suffocate. Threo men protected by helmets and oxygen tanks pushed past the point whore the flames wore lirst discovered dis-covered at G o'clock this afternoon and stumbled over the bodies of tvo men and a boy who hud ovldontly fallen fal-len while groping their way to safety. Ajmajority of the missing men and boya aro foreigners, but two Americana Ameri-cana Foreman Walter Knight and r Fire Boss Alfred Dawc are thought to have perished. Fire Started In Engine House. Tho fire started In an engine house at the opening of a slopo leading from tho Diamond vein, 760 feet from tho surface. There were four hundred men In the mine, about 60 of them at work In a "blind" uinnol at the end of the slope. Escape was completely blocked by fire, suioko and gas. The other men, scattered in different workings, got out by exits. James Vlckers, a lire boss, who was uoar the engine house when the flro broke out, gave the alarm and tried to got to the tunnel whore ho knew a body of men was at work. He could go only a short distance before be-fore ho was forced to turn back. He was so exhausted that he had to bo carried to the surface He gave it as his opinion that no man could Hvo five minutes In the tunnel. Rescue Cars and Forces. Gangs of miners led by Mine Superintendent Super-intendent Joseph Blrtley and assisted bv the Throop fire department, car-rfed car-rfed hose Into tho mlno and fought the- fire undor dlffloulttos. Tho United Stales mine rescue car stationed sta-tioned lu Wllkeubarro was summoned summon-ed early lu the afternoon and later on the Delaware. Lackawanna t Western railroad hospital oar and the Lehigh Valley company's mlno rescue res-cue force from Wllkesbarro arrived. The finding of the threo Oodles led the rescuers to bellevo no one was alive In the tunnol, and they renewed tho attack on the burning area to reduce re-duce tho heat. When this Work had proven offective a corps of gxpert rescue res-cue men pushed Into tbo slope and later came upon several bodies strewn along the roadway, whoro tho mon had fallen In their fight to get to tho end of the stope Tho bodies wero carried to the foot of (he shaft to bo taken out 'after nightfall to Bjjarc tho distracted wives, children and other relatives of the victims, who thronged itf"' tho mouth of the shaft. dOf' Most of VIctlmB Were Foreigners. "iji Throop borough, officials, deputy $& patrolmen and a squad of tho state ifls3 constabulary were summoned from & Peckvllle to ta"kc care of the crowds " There was no vlolenco, although It 'iriijfl was fpaced there "might bo some dls- t: ILvH orderly demonstration on the part of - . the friends of tho foreigners among Pjr the victims. i Or The colliery is ownqd and operated VU- by the Prlcc-Pancoaat Coal company yf at the head of which is John R. T3ry- ' , den, general manager of the Ontario t&" & Western collieries in thU region. :j4J At midnight 20 bodies had been tak- ' - ij en from the mine and arranged in tho " ffr temporary morgue. Among the bodies ' fjS Is that of John R Perry, common jjT councilman, First ward, Scranfon- ij" Walter Knight, inside foreman; Isaac fijl1 Dawes, fire boss; Joseph Mc Water, l Jamos Wallace, Henry Lucas, .Mich'- uVi1 ael Gall, Joseph E'vnns, Tohn May, 'fcrf Harry Rothwell Tho other bodies' tjfjjj aro those of foreigners. iPy A crowd of 5,000 gathered near the jtf V mine. Tho hysterical screams of tho tl women and children Is appaling. They '!' sobbed and cried during the day, but '-Ht when the first lodv appeared "under ! (V the light of torchos at the mouth of , fit the shaft, they let loose their pent-up L feelings in a torrent and screamed : Kjj dispairlnsly Many of them had to ho j isj restrained from doing themselves vlo- 5! lence and others fainted 'j"! It was said all tho bodies would bo Jc out by daylight. JJvp |