Show GREAT MINE DISASTER explosion in the albion colliery in wales hope thin two hundred men burled in tbt debels pully elzety live lost the work or rescue cardiff wales 23 U dispatch from pont y glamorgan says a terrible explosion occurred this afternoon in albion colliery two hundred minere buried beneath the debris of the mine it I 1 estimated that eighty miners were killed cither by the explosion or by the earth and rock several parties of volunteers in the work of rescue de into ahe pit this evening every possible effort 1 fiade to the imprisoned miners who are vet alive and to rescue the bodies of the dead none of the rescuing party have yet returned and this ii taken to indicate that great difficulty ti beier met in u 1 the place where the miners are entombed the entire population of alli fondd and hundreds of persons from aront y and other places in the vicinity are dithered gi about the mouth of the pit this evening waiting for news from the mine dozen or more boye are among the number entombed late some rescuers came to the eustace and report that they had penetrated yards into the mine and fondd five men alive but badly injured they alaio found thirteen men who bad been killed this information spread rapidly amone the crowd at the pite month and the excitement grew in intensity thoo who had friends or belati res in the mine asked with eager strained faces if they were amone dead of course no information could be vouchsafed them as the mine officials did not know the names of the killed and many bodies were so badly burned identification by the urn light nf the lamps was impossible the five men were brought up the shaft and doctor are doing all in their power to alleviate their euffer 1 twenty men and boys in a semi con condition were brought up they bad apparently not been injured by the explosion but had inhaled the afterdamp after damp the impression grows that the loss will be greater than at first estimated the men iwho have come to the surface report aft have seen a number of bodies so pinned under the debris that it Is impossible to extricate them gas Is present in large quantities and militates the hope of the men imprisoned 4 more bodies were discovered and brought up after midnight many of them are terribly scalded the flesh al most drooped from them it is more than probable that a large percentage of the dead will never be identified |