THE MONONGAH DISASTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 10 December 1907, Page 3

THE MONONGAH DISASTER.

I ONLY FIVE MEN RESCUED. ' DISTRESSING SCENES. New York, December 8. Eighty-five bodies have been recovered from the Monongah mine. The force of the explosion carried a Mock Of concrete weighing a thousand pounds across a river and cmliedded it m a hillside. The officials believe that the blockage of the entrance a few hundred feet beyond the main opening interrupted the ventilating system, and thus killed the entombed miners in a few minutes.

The town of Monongah has 16,000 inhaUtaata.

Throughout the night of the disaster hundreds of men stood at the mouth of the pit. Women crowded the hillsides, tod wept till they cried themselves .to sleep on the frozen ground. Five men hare been rescued. All are injured and unable yet to give details «t the disaster.

Parties of ten men each are working b short relays, owing to the accumulation of gases rapidly exhausting them.

ONE HDNDBED BODIES RECOVERED ; SCORES MORE IN SIGHT. * HUNDREDS OF COFFINS IX I READINESS. 'maybe one THOUSAND LIVES LOST. ' Received Dec. 9, 10.7 p.m. New York, December 9. A hundred bodies hare been recovered Irani the Monongsh mine.. Scores more are visible among the wreckage, bat gates prevent their recovery. Hundreds of coffins are piled at the jrit's month. It b whispered that there were one thousand men in the mines at the time of the explosion.