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Show S l ULPi fin il One Hundred Workmen Believed to Be Dead Many Injured Rochum, Germany, Aug. S. A mining min-ing disaster, which Imperiled tho lives of 650 pitmen, occurred In the Ix)r--ralne pit near Gortho today. Many of the men were rescued, but it is feared more than 100 have been killed Twenty-five bodies have been recovered, re-covered, but the rescue parties were unable to enter the gallery In which tho firedamp explosion occurred, where It is believed from 50 to 100 men still are entombed. Many of those rescued arc suffering from severe Injuries and It Is ox-pected ox-pected that many of thom cannot re-covor. re-covor. The rescue detachments, which did such good work at the time of the French mine disaster at CDurrieres, near Lens, March 10, 1906, when 1.230 miners were killed, arrived hero but were unablo to penetrate tho galleries, gal-leries, owing to the flames and the poisonous gases. The wives and families of the doomed miners were "gathered around tho pit head all day, but were unable to learn any details as the officials of tbe mines refused Information. At 6 o'clock 15 bodies had been recovered, re-covered, making the total known deaths 40. -oo |