The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-11-23

or the injured thirty five were re-
moved to their homes. Twenty five
were in hospitals. Work of identi-
fication at that hour had not been
completed but il was believed that
there were thirty eight white dead
and twenty white injured. Company
officials announced that all bodies had
been removed from the pit. in which
I75 men were trapped by fire late Srs
terday
Frantically battling against after.
| damp for three and one-half hours.
sixty miners. pocketed in the forts
second west entry of the ming, were
rescued after they had been given up
for lost.
The sixty men working in the
enrty leading directly from the yard
were completely shut off from escape
following the blast. Fearing to enter
the shaft, all OF the imprisoned men
waited patiently for.developments.
As minutes ran into hours, the
afterdamp began to effect the trapped
men. \ brattice. or protecting wall
of coal dust was then piled up 10
shut Off the bad air. The insidious
gas soon penetrated the temporar,
bulkhead and another was con
struCtcd
When members Of the rescue team
| arrived with oxygen helmets AMI
| other safety equipment. however, they
| found all the men still conscious, and
the group was conveyed to the sur
face in a state of nervous exhaustion.
Despite the fact he was feeling ef-
fects Of the dread blackdamp, DIR. Ed
| Wright, member Of the first volun-
| teer rescue crew to enter Shaft No. 8,
Lattlcd desperately throughout the
hours Of the night and did not cease
ministering to the dying until he him
self had fallen unconscious by their
side
shortly after the first rescue teams
we're organized last night, the physi-
clan offered his services. Entering
the mine without an OXYGEN mask
| with members of the r. G. A. |. res
cue team, Dr. Wright did not leave
the cold. dark passagoways until he
was carried on a stretcher.
| At least tirty were either killed or
injured, when a train of trip cars
running wild from the tipple crashed
into the mine yard in the main en-
try.
More than 500 workers uninjured by
the accident and blast that followed
were trapped for several hours. Most
Of the injured men huddled them
selves IN groups in various places OF
safety.
These men were among the first 10
reach the outside with actual news oi
| the terrible scenes inside the mine.
| They told OF passing over bodies Ia
the main entry and OF seeing other
miners injured and moaning for help
or as the fatal afterdamp snuffsd Out
their lives.
| According 10 company officials. tho
exploson occurred simultaneously
with tho crash OF three skip" cars
which ran wild" down the slope 70
tho mine yards" approximately
I.lOO feet from the entrance. These
cars, breaking cable, while they wers
being naulcd up the slope to the en- e
trance, crashed downward. severinE
an electric circuit. THIS caused \
spark and as the cars crashed into
lthe yards" In the interior of the
mine. the explosion occurred. SO
great Was tho blast that the flames
belched upward all tFe way TO $50
mine entrance, approximately i,ioJ
feet, and then continued on 200 feet
further TO the mine tipple. setting
this afrs,
Fire, which followed the explosion.
hlndered the work Of rescue and was
believed Ia have been responsible tof
J many lives.