Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-26
ERSENTONBEl feof TwOHundred In liar. kiCk Mine Yet Unknown. IVY BELIEVED TO BE DEAL
 Iosion Caused Rumbllng Like ai Earthquake.
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M VI OAoASt&T &E InS AA1nS NGAh &esvvicl< Not Known-Tvvo Brought &f Have Since Died-Harrowina
 enes at the Pit Mouth, Where
 nnflxes of the Imprisoned Men
 i've Gathered.
 Jan. 26.-From a.. that be gathered at this hour between
 land 190 men are lying dead in the Kings and passageways of the liar k mine of the Allegheny Coal com.
 at Chaswiek,, the result of a ter
 explosion. Cage after cage has & down into the mine and come up Sn, but only one miner of all those
 went down to work has been
 lght to the surface. The rescued
 is Adolph Gunia, and he is still in
 miconscious condition at the tenn 3ry hospital at the rude schoolhouse
 he hillside above the mine.
 Alwyn Taylor. a' well known expert Itng engineer of this city, who plot &the mine and who headed the first 5uing party to enter tha mine, was
 come by gas while groping his way lugh the tunnels and is dead. sHisi Y was brought to the surface three -four hours afterward. The men b him barely escaped with their 5. Three times efforts were made
 encus MT. Taylor, but without avail zhen the explosion occurred the first ming was a sudden rumble under $nd, and then a sheet of flame fol |ed up the deep shaft. Both mine $s were hurled through the tipple. snty feet above the landing stage, the three men on the tipple were led to the ground. A mule was $wn high above the shaft and fell 4 on the ground. The injured men
 e brought at once to this city, where of them have since died.
 ' soon as the rumble of the explo- and the crash at the pit mouth
 ti d the little village the wives and k1ren of the men below rushed to
 scene of the disaster, but to gain Encouragement. There was no way sket into the deep workings. The bs that let the men into the mines brought them out again when the Is work was done were both demoI- "a.
 De explosion occurred at S:20 o'clock
 he morning at the bottom of one of
 shafts, presumably caused by Ire Ap. 1t was o'clock in the after
 b before it was possible to make firgt attempt at rescue. Robert Sth and Jack McCann, one of the
 lnesrs employed by the Allegheny
 D company, tried to get into the 2e by way of the stairs through the
 haft. They managed to grope their
 some distance. but were finally len back by the foul air.
 SAA main shaft into the mine, 220 deep, was made useless by the ex-
 ion, which hurled both cages, one which was within thirty feet of the
 om of the shaft, through the tipple, Ny feet above the surface. hortly after 5 o'clock a temporary ling had been put in place over the Ath of the main shaft and small $Set capable of carrying three men tened to the tackle. The first try
 h the new rig was made by Selwyn flor, the mining engineer who had D summoned from Pittsburg, and hssistant. J. M. Rayburn.
 here was . call for volunteers to aid 5he work of rescue and call for Amers, nails and brattice cloths to sble the rescuers to brace up the kings so that they can grope their i back to where the men were at 5k when the crash came. The little hge of Harwick that surrounds the Sing workings, two miles back from West Pennsylvania railroad, had b horror stricken all day. The wives relatives of the entombed men Be crowded about the entrance to the beseeching for news of the loved E below, but only to meet with the be answer, "We do not know yet; if lind him. we will send him home" hortly after this Selwyn M. Taylor one of his assistants signaled for engineer to lower away. Thomas |6d, one of the first of the rescue |ky hauled to the surface, told his Fy of his trip through the mine. He }:
 was with Taylor, and we clam ed over three or four falls. Tay- aa.si out the uaine and seemed tn