THE BIG BLOW UP.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 65, 10 December 1907, Page 5

THE BIG BLOW UP.

BELIEF ! A THOUSAND POUND MISSILE, ; EIGHTY-FIVE BODIES. BY TELEGEAPH— rRESS AESOCIATIONr^COPTEIGIIT. Ne\»i,.,York,, December 8.. Rescue operations inn the, Baltimore. Coal Company's mine, near.. Fairmouut, .West Virginia, whero a terrific explosion occurrod which is believed to have''caused over 400 deaths, have been continued as thoroughly as the over-powering,, fumejS;' wjll, permit. JSighty-fivo bodies have, been recovered. Five men were rescued. All were injure , !, and were unable to give details of the disaster. Owing to the accumulation of gases, work has to be carried on I "n> short , ' Vclays, with parties of ton men each.. Officials believe that a blockago at an entrance a few hundred.feet beyond.tho main opening interrupted the' ventilating system, killing tho entombed in a. few minutes. 'i'ho town of Mnnongah, tho scone of the explosion, has (3000' inhabitants. . Throughout tho night hundreds of men stood at the mouth of the pit. •■-■ .- ■ ■ Women crowded tho' hillsides, finally crying themselves to sleep on tho frozen ground. ■ .. -.- The explosion carried a :block of- concrete weighing a thousand pounds across the river, where it was embedded'in the "■ Hillside. COFFINS PILED UP AT PIT'S MOUTH. NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES. (Rec. Dec. 9,'-i6'7 : p.jh:)"V New York, December 9. A hundred bodies have been.recovered at Slonong'ih. Scores more are visible among tho wreckage, but gases prevent their recovery. Hundreds of coffins are piled at the pit's mouth. It is whispered that there were 1000 men in the mines! at the. time of tho explosion.