New Britain herald., 1930-11-06
MINE DEATH TOLL DEFINITELY PLACED
 AT 76 BY RESCUERS
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 ,~ou'.raI From Tr-' ra- o#o ard rnaS.l.saa. n-tj.~ .#oze r.ara..a from r.. e.r.oaaa- 7e mrm- t,rrtorv. wont down aaI discovered the full esau, ot uh.o'a vor~t mu.u2 t-asoay. There WIS | -lap oi lodlr- ii the bottom Of the .r-t sHaGr. uGiia o;h,rs N,re .n~av.nd rtroa@holf rha runurjs. -ome o'tu,M dying vrn their hands -ra-p,n., ar their -Er0a's O. l.rtl- ju= in r~a>er.
 The dead included .I u.uI"rs nI the inspection paw. ""o 'ot"r- ,.I the undsr-rouuI tunnels a few mjuutos br'oro tan fH'l hla-'-. Among them ~crc NfH. Y,fus ot 'o}umbta. president O. rn" sunday rock com9au1. Howard pson. aeld manager: Hah.rt Lancaster, .niof engineer. Robert Parsons. su- aarfntondent Of tha columbia Steam Engine plant at Futonhau' q sub ~idiary Of tha Pittsburgh Plate Glass company: Thomas F. TrJynor. 'raf- tn manager and Vernon Roberts, foreman Of the ColamaIa company J Bergen superintendent o' The ohio povar plant at Phno. and r. X Coon. yice president in charge oI sales for tho coal company
 Three Men Overcome
 Three u-n performing TostGo work were reported overcome in The gaseous chambers today, bgt wore drought 10 the surface safely by others
 X silent crowd os women and .Ajldroa whose husbands and tath- ITS met death, stood Throughout the tight. hoping against hope that their loved ones had escaped the choking gas but broke into tears when hody arrer body was brought 10 inc sur racn in a rage that dropped down tato th depths ot inc mine.
 Tho death figure. the first an ao1noed by inc company. WAS aa- rnorIzeG by George K. smith. chalr- nan of the board Of directors who vas -1 inc scene Of the disaster as rescue workers ucro bringing out ,h. dead
 All ,hr bodies had ha.n r.coE,r- ..a this morning. k msu had brrn rescued aIv,. aud r'o w.r, Del.,..i -o ha,n escaped iron portions ot f0n miuo not affected uy rh" e.plo- ion, Smith said -f& men had gon- town in the mine yesterday before -He tragedy occurred and tha, tb- party of nine officials also had gone town on an Inspection trip.
 Meanwhile, this little village. A typical Hooking county mining c.u.. tor, virtually was under martial IaH. < detachment of National Guards IIen vas thrown about tae entrance 70 keep hack the anxious and tne '9rlous aIih" and keep traffic m0y- .9s on inc narrow, winding road I"aIiug 10 Athens. the county seat nine miles away from where relief eIopIes Were being dispatched
 Several hundred friends and loved ones or 'he ,utomDel m,l lIGdI~d 'ogthcr. sometimes tysr.rjra., some flms quietly weeping as they srpt their eyes on the entrance 70 the shaft. Rescue men. Vorhiug mtU the effects of the gas drove them out and then giving way 10 another crew, toiIed throueLoat the nigh nnder brilliant searelli-ht-.
 saved By Apron
 MIlUc.d. o. Nov. lP-A "Ite.s apron saved the life Of Goor-" Easp Of Jacksonville. one Of tIr trapped workers in inc MiuHeld mine.
 Easp said he Was blown almost Ioo iret from the place where he had Daen standing.
 Tn my hand Was ug "itrs pr0n. " hich l had brought from home this morning 10 tie around nay face be- ,aDse inc air had becn so bad Iare- 'E" Easp related.
 T dipped the apron n some cof- fee ] found in lunch bucket and ted it across my face. Then I rrawIed on my hands and hnees- T. seemed like a mile l ,raWIea-- until l came 10 an air shaft where | was able to get up on d wooden stairway
 For while he said ue had com panions who helped each other across fallen timber and piles ot slate, but when he reached the air shaft he was alone, He did not know inc fate Of the others.
 Tells of Escape
 A story of how he and hIs buddy" escaped the death-deal5- eases was told by Walter Porter tD. Porter, the father Of seven chil- Gren vas one of those injured by inc explosion. He suffered broken rlbs and cuts on the forehead.
 %It was nearly 2 o'clock when I and my buddy. Emmett Olbers, were called to fix some lat hes in the Nc. 10 west entry" Porter said. w had just started to work when there was a terrific noise and q wall of hame.
 'The explosion blew OUT truck, containing our tools, approXimatelA :i5 feet and catapulted it up agains,