MINING DISASTER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2058, 9 December 1907, Page 2

MINING DISASTER.

A HEAVY DEATH ROLL. •125 BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED. SEARCH PARTIES DRIVEN BACK BY EUAIES. AIANY MEN ENTOMBED BY A FALL. ONLY A MIRACLE CAN SAVE THEM. United Press Association —Copyright (Received Dec. 8, 4.42 p.m.) NEW YORK December 7. A mining disaster occurred yesterday at Monongah, near Fairmount. The scene of the catastropliy was the Baltimore Consolidated Coal Company’s mine, where through an explosion two pits mutually connected and situated on opposite sides of the Monongahela river, were set on lire. Sonic Imudreds of men were at work in the mine, and ia number of them were hurled through tlie ventilating shafts. The actual loss of life is not yet known, hut it is feared 425 perisliod. The fumes were so dense that search parties who entered the mine were unable to penetrate and distance. Some of the bodies discovered by explorers were so mutilated as to he quite unrecognisable. All the passages of the mine are blocked by the fall of debris. It will he a miracle if any of the entombed men are saved. The force of the explosion was so great that it shook all the houses within a radius of eight miles.