The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-29

rare known to be dead. 5g were rescued, many of them severely burned, and 2u3 others are eutombed in two burning mines and are believed to have but a small chaucea for their lives as the re- suit of an explosion of gas in mines Nos and of Che New River Collieries com pany here late today The dead ana rescued men were taken from mine No 6, and it is said an but 13 who entered this shaft early today have been ac- ,uuted for. one hundred and ninety If thc entombed men are in shaft No 5, not man having escaped from this Cp- ! erotion since the explosion. The mi} q | tcli ight was burning nercely, with gov | eirn.ent. state and volunteer rescUrss working desperately to subdue lae flames.
 rho depth of the two main shafs $ Go1 feet. an Jta' mines are connect Il l updo ground. There arc two other shafts into the mines but the explosion 1 ,utIlY wrecked t,ueu od of the tour. l I, to lAne eutnauoo lo.pl- lbte mne No 8. and by means or it the rescues were l ade. No. mlno apparently is com l pietely shut off from the surface and rcscueri hold little hope of reaching the large number of men in time to save ta,4u
 The explosion occurred in mine No. 5. The two shafts of this mine were de- moHshed. lt is believed the explosion | travelled through this mine into No. 6. Onc shaft of the latter mine was wrecked but the other remains intact. and to 1t is due the salvation of at least o9 of the worSmen.
 This little mining community of 1,5oo persons was shaken by the muffled rum bling of the explosion. At first there was po smoke but men on the tippes knew that far underground the toll of death was being taken.
 Superintendent Thomas Donaldson of mine Mo- 8. another operation of the compauy local Superintendent M F. Kent and General Superintendent r. R. Halles of the New River Colueries com [ l1uN were at Che scene uf the disaster within short time Superintendent
 Donaldson and am expert rescue crew
 were lowered down the shaft of No. 0
 nin.
 so, time the crowd of frightened B women and children at the tpples 2 waited m suspense. but soon the signal
 came to hoist away and the cage app
 u,a.ed It bore two men badly hurt, a
 few pl the rescue party and two bodies , D.Icf trips We're made as rapit'y Us IaS- ! | -Ile and each time bm"kened anG
 buIl ed miners were brought t1 the s,h-
 face uutH Gs men had been brought up.
 faur of them dead. The injured were
 assisted to nearby houses, where phy-
 siri8n- waited to care for them. The r.s,uod men expressed doubt that any ot in, thirteen miners stH in No shaft
 vouIJ he taken out alive. some of the
 men said portions of No 3 mine were N nady wrecked and they believed that the <, entrance connecting with NJ" mine h'u
 been entirely destroyed
 Of the bodies recovered '"o are ,' Americans. one foreigner and the ', fourth a negro large portion of the
 miners employed are Americans.
 Tnjted states government rescue ' ca,. reached the mines from Buefted, W. 'A Y. et 5 o'clock and another will arrive
 bore from Putsbug. ra. at noon to- h, morrow. .. i- ne The New River Galleries company IS '7 connected wi.h the Guggenheim m od tercsts. ..,..,,..,,, ''' The rescue parties worked ihfouEnoU'
 tbo evening Their combined eiio' '5 '', ,ycro directed to mine No 5' where the '0 1eo men are cntomhed. Notwi'h7''hulns
 ,. ,,,ertsb haste of the rescuers, they fi- n,3. little progress from shaft No' Inc n,o shaft No s because of the ln'enS'
 heat and gases. .,....a to seel his nci, homes tonight and there was ".,' the o,citement at the mines Although w u' in r..cuers were making progress an" "s 'l- ,,uressed little hope ot seulhs '''' .Ns' torhcd en in No. mine out aliVe' ','. ,o, ent n,1 ne work well in hand Al " 1' nto moy M mad installed ne wfans maN'"s ,S,, Sp will tasl, , o( boring into mine No less . o,l'
 om, The New River Colh'''e@ ''ss re- .,,arcl two carloads If collins "o' day Cincinnati. d.. the fir ,ort considerable extent in West Nus'" ., N ,n several years It probably r ,',,ee, s,t
 only in fatalities to the N'"'"S'''