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Show uu MINERS ARE CAUGHT LIK3 PATS IN TRAP I'niontown, Pa , .July 25. Caught li'i.o rats in a trap when water rushed rush-ed into tho mumva of Suporba No. 2 mines at Evans siatlo three miles uorth of Unlontown.. yesterday after- noon, following a cloudburst, thirteen men were drowned and 37 escaped After a most harrowing experience. The men were drowned about -1,000 feet from the mouth of the mine, their Only avenue of escape. The majority of the victims had large families and about thirty children chil-dren nre deprived of their breadwinners. breadwin-ners. The men who escapeJ were forced to half swim and half walk to the pit mouth through water ranging In depth from their waists to their nocks. The majority of the miners who escaped were lcnockcd down by timbers that were sent down the mino with great velocltj in the raging current cur-rent Several men were bolng carried car-ried back In the mine to certain death when rescued by their companions |