Show ANOTHER HORROR rear fearful fui fatal firedamp explosion in goal mine fifty mea iten suffocated to death ar or otherwise mortally injured by by aard CONSELIA VILL pa fab rob 20 at eix six this morning one of the most terrible explosions ever known in tha this vicinity occurred at west leusenring Leiten chaft a few miles from here I 1 resul resulting tinZ ina in a fearful loss of life Particular i ii i re eo so meagre as yet that nothing iq kneen as to what caused the di disaster sister the latest re report port received here at noon was to t the e effect that some souie seventy five persona persons were at work in tho the mino mine at the time of abbe eap exp 1 anand n and that out of that cumber r t twenty enty nine persons are known to have ii aye mot met their th e dersons death and that many dead bodler have been ah ali ready taken out twelve were rescued se teral of whom were however so badly injured that they will die every effort is being made to get at those who are fire yet in in tho the mine and to learn the extent of the frightful accident it is thought that at least fifty persons out of the seventy five in the mine were killed or so badly injured that they will die particulars later later UNIONTOWN pa ila fabso tho little minin mining village of IV west st Lei leisenring four miles north of here was this morning th the scene escene odthe of the most terrific explosion ever known in the coke region mon the connell aville coal and iron companas Comp anys coke ovens have given employment to about one hundred men the foal oal is obtained by means of a shaft i aich reaches tho the mines at a distance of four hundred feet from alic surface this morning tho part of the force who had worked all skit night left the mines wines a little after three and seventy others took their places making the usual morning shift about hith bah past six while the men were engaged in digging dig eing zing without warning ou erred an all explosion that convulsed tho the mine in every apartment I 1 and throw tho the men mon into the utmost uti consternation tho scene of abo explosion in one of tho the apartments was fully eighty or a hundred feet distant from the bolcum of oft the shaft and 1200 feet from the sur surface f ace open e n ia yet the report has ash heard eard 0 on olt alio i e outside for it considerable distance and caused isuel such a jar a ut the top of the derrick a hun hundred ad feet bi high bih h that it knocked off ff two mules etan dinc at the bottom cf cathe the shaft eight hun hundred dred feet from tho explosion and tho the rush of air blew une no of them through a wooden CAW cave shattering it to pieced an awatif scene coined among the terror stricken miners their lamps lampi were wera blown out and they were left in and kon confusion fusion they had bad not tine tins to recover from the block until they found themselves unable to b f catbe athe as the explosion of firedamp ire damp left no oxygen themi the miners hovend hover d near the bottom but even hero here they did not long find re lief of all abo men who were in tb heading where the explosion oc 1 burred dick balsley alone escaped to tel tell I 1 the aw ft 1 tale the explosion occurred and all the libis were blown w was as jd just changing clia nging clothes he ile wound a part art of hia his clothes tightly around lilt istace face and mouth to keap keep th the foul air from choking hica hiss and gay gave tho the krestof lite garments ga ments to a companion W with i ili i ii I 1 I 1 liccio uc tiona s to take the same precautions lie tsiun slatted forthe main baddin bidding his companion to follow him ho ile ran over the bodies of men and over shattered wagons they could eee fee nothing but could hear her the groans of the dying mea men presently baileys companion protested they were not coins going in the right direction and turned back balsley ley pushed pu hed on until finally he lie saw uw light and was aas taken out alises his escape ca pe ia is regarded by experienced miners u ers as one of the moat most marvelous on record ho says kept their head under water ns us long as they could and then would have to change from the water to tho the afterdamp until they finally ga gave ve up the unequal struggle when ahu news of the ey explosion I 1 was flashed around the f of themen alie men gathered around the haft shaft and rera with suspense bals dais IY loya story gave atheni little ground fur for iny wy could bo gotten out alive so dangerous daug erous was the afterdamp that it was fully two hours before an any integers could enter tha mine yi tt body was hio tight out the face faco bore no marks mark si i v violence olence and be he had evidently died the work of rescuing the men wen now went on rapidly b willing volunteers and at noon poon nin eiven bo lies had been cr err ried out tto rio companes Comp anys book waa was then exam ried vie roll was called and it way announced that all tha the men were it counted fur the woi fc proceeded in q quiet ulet and order anad the a soba bi an and subdued tied weeping ol 01 llie the stricken families tb bodies acir iken tho homes near by the f aroner of this place we went nt from ilia tho the inquest began nt at half halal past t three tt roe no testimony waa nas taken ex at t that which A aich ide identified ratified fied the dead lead |