The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-07-17
III DEAD;
Y RESCUED
frightful Disaster in Cambria
Nine at JOhnStOwn.
EXPLOSION CAUSED BY GASES
Fourteen Men Were Found Alive in
One Chamber.
HEROIC REscuERs PERlsHED
Accident Was Caused by Fire Damp


See'oen' was Nduseu W '"e ''''
and Survivors Who Escaped From
,bo Mire eroYost Horrible Stories Of
Ira"'''J ONer Oeau o'0'es " O-''''
rades in Their Race Fer llfe-6odIe5
~ Dead were Twisted into Various
,,o,
'"'t'''' '''0'''''9 '''' ''"1 '' ~
Slow Death.
Jobos,,wp Pa. Julv 1.-Two hun.
s,ed ,,ir.~. oDtor,hed nv m oxplosion
:, n,i,, n.hoso min shaft onans
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dr., ,., r,,,or .,ii ,ho, all in the
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10.
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het' ""' ''''' ''po' - 'N t''"' ''e
lower uI.'e was correct ana t""' i''
We're safe. The mine is one OF lhe
largest IN me country, ana !eSleIua!
500 ne" were at WORK lhere.
HOW il. are u'2l II may 'aNe s'N'
tru o.'. ,' iNI.! G'''rlllh'' O"' lilA'
II Is lun' anG ShorRihS ilSt Is corIaiil'
II was "."..! an h3or aller 'ne expo
sion p.'.." any -'h''ai hh""I'H|e ol
"hat h"a '"pPel'u So' aoloau' M'n
VII" came from ''l' '''n'9' c'''V'"S
"a
WIN 'h'' 'f'S' '"'" thc IlIo'c "c"S'
ana 'H'h '' pI'au 'I"' NI'""I' an oN''
the '''|. III hHhuIo"S Vi hohles the'e
was ''' . . PAIA'''' S''i''S' N'1'"''S'
"IN"s. ." .''I"' OBS '''' i''"N''
were l'a.'.i. VII" ''.'A llu"''t Gus
iush'd 10 ne point ana WIZ" soop'"h
h'aEIs 2N".'rd news 'ha' "'p i'o' COME
irum we "I--at'u h'I'''
Heartrcn:'inc Ccercs at Mine.
The scenes on tlc hillsites were
hcarronuug. As soon as the news
of tn, disaster spread it was communi-
Gated nos. house to house where the
wives. M. hers and children e the
miners live. and in a few moments
there was crowd of several hundred
persons gathered about the nine. This
was augmented with almost every sec.
ond. as the awful news continued to
spread. Wives of the unfortunate vic
tins ran about wildly excited; moth
ers tainted. and little children walled
as the extent of the horror became
known to them.
At the onening across rho river FROM
the noint the Cambria Iron Comma
nolice with several assistants {, i
guard permitting no one In r.,to. he
mine from which noyious pa,,., were
romirr II was nearly 1 o'cIock when
all hone OF sending rcscue parties from
the rost,.,. NJ oooYino was abandoned
Two mon who r,d r-,anod from tho
Richard Iarac., nd John NIey-
crs-wnut back tgyu. ui,c. - see what
assistance could be rendered but the
frigh,m dina, drove them back and
thcy foil .r,,tra,o when thew finally
after a d ~ato struggle reached tho
vrr.t. v.n d1rtor. gave fine mon as-
ris,nr.n and or,pr working with ,bor,
b9ll an l.,. restored tbcr} to normal
condition rhpir ytory of ,ho situo-
rpn i, r,n r,inr made II ,'oor tbat
=. ...... .,... .4,Ili M; uroraod from rho
W..mlr, o,c3in. and ,hoo has,v
.rrnrr.,fr.s wera r,a3a ,o bogi, ,,ot
ssI mission ~ fine Mill Croal; cn,rorco
soon after the news of the frirh.frI
pyDIu...n . ,.lcd rhc Cambria oeiri,,s
(Hri,,o .u..,oor vor.boI = ,,,oro
oul ON, rf his assistorts r pro.
Ser made an attomrt ro ontor tho nina
They were soon rollowed by Niro cr.
nnrrrt ru..- Georro p RoLirsn, In.
tho d.,d.v ,3sos sto,rpa ,hair nro.
ur.,-
re-cucrs perichaa
lrno r,.r,,,o, rIorr,. pod,,. ~,
,seistort lviuio,, Dlonob 49,, nj
Ros..s Iobn Wbi,nev Iohr pa,oi,,.,.
ond I,,, urbo,,os roro o,.,,n,a.,,a ~
,bc .,.,. aud II &, ,,,r,d .ha. 49,, ~
rorishod j., ,u boroio o,,a,.,,,
tho ,,trcro rho 1;.yoario,d son ~,
tIo,,,, 2c,, .,rs Who, ho hao.I .,a. ~,