The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-12-15
HAS
MINE HORROR
80 MEN AND BOYS PERISH EEAE
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EHsEsns Sbes Wsves and chstsssa
~ Entsrzbea Miners Appear.


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~ aaabes ~he waEkeG nsts BE eEcas
HeaStain @iss At BssssyAiis sAsantay
mgEas1a taea death III j 9ast explosion
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WITH szzi9iss friends os the eHtoaaasa
iaea wh9 aA0aeiss g~aesttoE every worker
IL N.Y. eoss@s " sbs Eaoata 70 gala Y
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Company AhaA6gas Hope.
ThA knaAsfAie iFen Gompaay.
n THE mise hare 4bssft abandoned hope
NJ hEsEHg angoas atiys sad have sired
KngxviiA i0r i III assas cf ! carload III
e0dias
10 add To the gravity of ia 8itaatssn
there II ) fssa taualae ID she 4trisksn
t0Mn. oa ag ss fh@ great Iaflux BIZ p
Pe Supples viii ~ rushed ID The
sseae III the Haarntng.
An explosion az blasting powder ~
c9al aast rocked the earth aithin 1 few
rintlses after the shift had gone ~ work
Taref pf fAe nlets, fortunately late Id
tAsir MDgk, neFe in tm passage IeadiTeE
10 the working pit twa aliFr$ into the
b9Reis of tae EARTH. They beard the
crash, aud. tugning, fled fpy their fiyta.
Horror styleksR, shay eraWfs4 ID the
snrfaes aad gaFe she ai2Faa. TH ali hoFu
feseua parttss we're afgans1ed and start
| ID iass the shaft.
But the resesae parties we're i1.B4stept
Aiaaost Al . > Al they descended i
eSlnmn IL anaake trsskied ffosn the
naautis of shs cavern. "a few seconds
later Iii became 4 thsek. bEack pillar
and the rsseu4rs. choking and blinded,
rushed ID the air.
Tas only hope nov expressed Is that
THE explosion eaved iii ! part 81 the
roof aliti 6lorkea tlie passagsway BE-
tween L feH of the miners and ths
deadly Nil.
1ae arsst air faas were KEPT purrsp
linz at top speed throughout tha day
MA BiRht III shs Nope THAT some oise
was aliye, aad might, with roper air,
BE- rescaed.
Rescue parties, time after t;rae. Ak
tempted rs deaeara Into the workings,
but we're driven back. OtAee tue body
Of 4 miner VA found. III was brought
ID The surface ANA Identified ~ that of
Lee Paalson.
Shartiy before midnight ths reseuine
party uncovered Two additional bodies,
oae being that III Taylor Little, While
the other could not 81 Identified. Tia
workers hnf passed ala brattieed up
twenty of tbe tKenty-seyea cross-ea.
tries. leaving but seven yet 10 reach
before getting IL The head Of the rHfne,
and unless men are found alive iii these
few remsining e-FDssentries. there ID
nose IN tho irline alive, and hope that
any sneh ara vet III there has about
vanished. When the head cf the mine ii
reached IRE searehers viii turn back and
no longer look for THE living, bat hunt
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