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Show DISASTER Coroner's Jury Censure Mine Inspector of Illinois i Princeton. 111.. May 19 The coroner's cor-oner's jury', which began last November No-vember to investigate tho cause of the Cherry mine disaster, which re- suited In the death of 2C5 miners In. the St. Haul coal mine, has reacned an agreement and 2.f separate verdicts ver-dicts have been returned The Jury' says the mining laws were broken with, the knowledge and consent of the mine inspectors. The verdicts were, in three sets, one set tlxlng tho rauie of the death of the twelve men In the rescue party par-ty who perished on the cage in the main shaft, another set for the clght-eeu clght-eeu men who were suffocated in the second vein, and the third for the fifty-one men who were trapped in the third vein and died of exposure and suffocation. The verdict of the coroner's Jury Is a vindication of John Cowley, tho engineer who was in charge of the cage on which the twelve rescuers lost their lives The verdict fays the twelve rerruera lost their lives "indirectly by a confnsion-of signals regulating the movement of the. CPg'." The following verdict was brought in for each of tho 187 m&n who lost tbelr lives In tho second vein: "We llnd that they came a their death by suffocation, and that the lire was caused by a pitched load ot baled hay coming In contact with an oil torch "And we further find that there was great delay in notifying the men of the danger." Tho verdict giving tho cnuw of death of tho men in the third vein says: "We" find that thoy amo to their death by exposure and suffocation, j We further hnd that the mining laws of the state of Illinois, in relation to ' means of escape, wero violated with I the full knowledge and consent of ! the mine inspectors for district No. i |