Show I 1 LY ESCAPED 1 two hundred men in a burning mine CAIN VAIN ATTEMPTS TO 1 t the e men reached the surface through tho the ventilating shan shafts in safety nut but one ono seriously burned minonk ill dec 21 at 5 thia tills A a fire which Is 1 still burning broke out in the rnino mine operated by the chicado cagot 11 inona minonk coal mining company situated one mile from front the city tho the flames held two hundred miners in deadly peril of their live lives all escaped however and few were injured the man most hurt was george Erbia errand nd who abused the disaster by attempting to light a torch while standing near a can of kerosene theall the oil flamed up and in his effert to extinguish tile fire erbland upset the can of kerosene which at once gave the flames a great impetus the dry ti limber lining the walls 0 f the nin n s haft were ablaze in fit an ail instant and the fire spread with such appalling rapidity rapi dlly it seemed as though the etien in the cobalt must perish about of them escaped ill thron r gli h the he main shaft before the tile fire rendered de azg it impassible pa isible two hundred undred li men were still a at in the bottom of the shaft and the fire was spreading furiously the wild est kind of a panic prevailed around the mouth of the tile shaft whore where the tile families of the imprisoned ell bisone d miners and others were glabe gathered res 0 1 o it was found there was no not t A I hose bose to reach far enough down the shaft abaft to be of use in ceat a extinguishing Ingui shing the flit nies and the illinois central aral at abonce once an ari engine to eureka for morehouse more hose it caine lit a remarkably short time and two gallant fellows made an attempt to descend the alian shaft the smoke however was pour ing out tit such clouds the men were d back half suffocated and two ath others ers started down they were also drawn back nearly dead and A it third equally unsuccessful attempt was made then it seemed that unless the men succeeded in lit escaping coping through the ventilating shafts their hope was gone there arc are three ventilating shaft shafts and to these the men in the mine hotd rushed crazed with fear burned with the fulling failing timbers and cho clicked ad and blinded by the tile which was rapidly filling alie fortunately every man reached the foot of one of these ventilating shaft sand was qu akly drawn lo 10 the surface inside of en an hour after erbland started the fire nil all the tile men were safely above ground many reached tho tile upper nir air in tit a deA desperate dep crate condition but n medical ledl c a I 1 aid a and lid fresh air soon brought them around and all will recover will with the exception of B Kr rb bland land whose injuries were received from front the explosion of the can call of oil at midnight the fire was burning furl furiously 0 beyond control it ts to to approximate the damage |