Show n u SIXTY MIENS CRAWL OUT OF H FIERY PIT I IN WHICH OF i I THEIR COMRADES MET DEATH DEATH r i COAL MINE I WRECKED BY EXPlOSION I d and Weak Cries of Entombed Victims Cease Before Before Be Be- i fore Exploring Parties Reach Them Them Them- Seventy Bodies J t Recovered Recovered- Deaths Due to Afterdamp Which Also Alsol Hampered Work of 01 Rescuers Property Rescuers Property One of Oldest in i i Monongahela Valley Scene Soene of Similar Disaster Thirty I j i Years Ago 1 I I 1 PITTSBURGH April 23 The The lives of miners possible were L snuffed out shortly after noon today when a disastrous explosion ocCulTed oc- oc in the Cincinnati mine of the Monongahela la River Consolidated O Coal al I Coke company at Finleyville about twenty seven miles southeast of this city Over Oer three score cro of workmen in the mine escaped to the surface crawling most of the way on their hands and knees through deadly gas goas fumes and over o j 1 debris A number sustained burns i Up to 11 U o'clock sev seventy bodies of victims had bad been re recovered o The I bodies were located by y rescuing squads of 01 the United Sta States s bureau of mines the Monongahela River Con Consolidated Coal Coke Ike company and the PiUs PiUs- burgh Coal company r As th lb the re rescuers cuers found a bo body It was carried to the entrance None of 0 the j bodies however were brou brought ht to 10 the I open It is stated the victims will be taken I from Crom the mine at Lt tomorrow i and shipped at once onee to Monongahela Cit City where the they arc are to be prepared for Cor burial Rescue Hampered by Afterdamp Rescue work ork is Is n being hampered by afterdamp Fire which foH followed wed the explosion has been completely subdued d I It t is said 1 An accurate estimate of ot t the e number l' l lof of dead Is impossible at present Of t i the 19 men who ho entered the tue mine for I w work toda today 38 8 made their I through what hat is known as the t entry ap and 1 S 3 or Of 40 to miners C ataO c azo through th the Courtney entry Th I others are aro unaccounted for tor 4 Several Se-eral hours hours' after the explosion I seven sC foreign n miners crawled led from ono one on o of tho the entrances of ot the mine All 11 w were ru j seriously burned burne J. J They could give n ns nl connected account of the thc conditions in tho the minI mine or of ot their Individual exp expert expert- rl- rl i Thc They all alt altI ald that the mine i was full Cull of or dead people Business s in was suspended suspended suspended sus sus- I and practically the entire community com corn J ru rushed to the ill fated mine A A. j guard was placed place l at tho the tits its mouth i and all persons except rescuers and aud I mine officials were held at a a. distance I Three entries s of the mine arc en entirely entirely en- en I tir 1 choked with debris Rescue p parties s reported ted this afternoon that I 1 some sonic of or the men were alive all behind lw avy falls of or earth and coal Rap Rap- RapI I pings ping's and weak cries could be heard tile they sal said fald As night ht came however such evidences e of or life lire ceased At 9 o'clock tonight rescuing rescuing- parties t coming from the mine expressed the 1 b belief that all the entombed ed men were cre I dead I IThe The force of oC the explosion was ter- ter j i Mine Une cars splintered and a a. ton fifteen-ton motor motOl was turned turne over l' l Many Ian fc feet t of mine track were cra twisted and ripped from the tIle tl tics s A gas explosion is thou thought hl to have e cause caused the disaster although this fact I has not been definitely determined Continued on Page 2 2 Column 3 i. i I j SIXTY MEN GRA cA Wl OUT OF FIERY PIT MORE THAN 1 00 mE DIE Terrific Explosion Cause Of Mine Disaster a at Finleyville Finleyville Finleyville Fin- Fin Pa Pal Continued From Page 1 i Li LiTho 1 Tho The o explosion occurred feet from rom the mouth of or the mine Of or th the known cnown deal deni dead John Green Thomas Cart Carter r so son on of William WilHam Carter sup superintendent nt of or the hc mine Robert nobert Anderson on machine bo boss bos s Charles lInger lingor and nd John L ar are Americans I Two Two-t Two thirds ol or tlc the dead ad arc are foreign foreign- ers era Elmer BoI George Geor c Barr Harry Parlor and Peter Mercer all fire I bosses bosses' arc are J known to he be amon among th the lead dead Conditions In the thc mine a an aA far tar a as It could b bt op penetrated indicated d that most of oC tho the men were not killed by the cx- cx but b by att afterdamp A theory a as aR to the tha cause of or tho the ex explosion cx- cx Advanced b by some sonic of or the men who escaped csc Is that an nn old mine running running running run run- ning parallel wIth the Cincinnati mine was uns filled with Ith gas which escaped through a t crack c In a concrete wall the mines and caused the explosion I IA A 4 relief train from this city with government experts an anti and equipment arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived at the mine nine shortly before 7 b o'clock tonight hL Immediately rescue crews entered the Ungo Mingo and Courtney Courtney Court Court- no ney entrances of ot tho the mine A As A th the men advanced ad th the th sv strung a n. teI telephone phone linein line lineIn linein In order to J keep In communication with Ith the tito surface Thirty n. ago o there was a n. sas a ex explosion explosion ex- ex at t tho the Cincinnati mine In which mine cars C were ere blown n through h the tipple tip Up- pIe plc and half halt a way across tho the hela bela river Th The mine is among the ol old old- I est eat In the allo valley having ha been in operation at least eighty years I I I |