Arizona republican., 1904-01-26
Of Two Hundred Employed in a Pennsylvania Mine
MOST DEADLY EXPLOSION
As Usual Weeping Women and Vail ing Children Are Gathered About a Shaft From Which Only Corpses May Come.

Pittsburg, Jan. 25.-From all that can be gathered at this hour between 1SO and 19O men are lying dead in the heading and rassageways of the Har- wick mine of the Allegheny coal com- pany at Cheswick. the result of a ter rife explosion today. Cage after cage has gone down into the mine and came up again, but cnly one miner of all those that went down to work this morning has been brought to the sur face.
 The rescued man is Adolph Gunia and he is still in semi-conscious con dition at the temporary hospital at the rude school house on the hillside above the mine.
 In addition to miners who were at work when the exDlosion occurred if is now believed by all the men of the rescue party who have come, up the 220 foot vertical shaft for awarminC and breathing spell, that Selwvn ". Taylor. the Pittsburg mining engi- ncer, who plated the mine and who was first to reach bottom after the ex- plcsion happened. is also now amonr the dead.
 or those in the mine all are prob- ably dead
 
 o'clock this morning and the first warning was the sudden rumble under ground and then sheet of flame fol- lowed up the deeD shaft Both mine cages were hurled through the tipple. twenty feet above the landing stage and the three men on the tippIe were nurled to the ground. mule was thrown high above the shaft and fell he.d on the ground. The injured men were brought at once to this city 1-1ere two of them have died.
 "s soon IS the rumble of the explos- ion and the crash at the pitnaouth startled the little villages the wives and children of the men rushed to the scene. but to get no announcement. There was no way to get into the deep workings. The cages that let the men iu- 10 the mines and brought themout again when the days work was done were both demolished.
 All day long. there was a jam of whiting women and children. waiting about the mouth of the pit There were calls for assistance and surgical aid from the men in charge of the mine but it was not until 4 o'clock this~after- noon that the first attempt at rescue was made. This was a failure as the two men who volunteered were driven back bv foul air. Shortly after o'clock Selwyn M Taylor and one of his assistants signalled for the engineer 10 lower them into the shaft
 Tavlor is still down there. Three eff forts have beer made to reach him, but so far without avail. Thomas Wood, one of the first of the rescue party hauled to the surface, told his story of his trip through the mine He said.
 1T was with Taylor and we clambe over three or four falls. Taylor laid out the mine and seemed to know the way. There was one man alive at the foot of the shaft. He was sent up and then we took the mule path into the south level. We saw two men who were alive and notified those back of us and then went on. We passed the third, fourth and fifth heading and then through an overdrift into the air shaft. I began to feel dizzy and sick and then saw Tay- Tor stagger and fall His lantern fell. We tried to lift him but could not carry him up, and l made my own way to safety"
 An additional part of twenty has just gone down. Three of the rescueIs. Becker, Smith and Walkernest. when they returned to the surface, declared that in their opinion all in the mine out side of the rescue party are dead, in cludlng Taylor, the engineer