A MINE INFERNO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 666, 17 November 1909, Page 7

A MINE INFERNO.

THOUSAND ORPHANS. FIRE REVIVES. NO HOPE TO SAVE THE ENTOMBED HEN. (tl/ Tolontapll.-Press An.«oclallnn.-OoDyrlEhl.l New York, November 15. Tho Watchers, at ' tho pit mouth at Spring Valley,; where over two hundred men are entombed otfiilg to a rcccnt fire in tho, mine, havo heard'muffled ; reports.: . ! It; is;, believed'/that- the entombed men are firing signals/. It is impossible to reopen, the ■mino (which was-scaled down to suppress tho fttej' fefoi'fi Tuesday. ;'v . . .. ENGINE-DRIVER AWAITS REGULATION SIGNAL. MEANWHILE FIRE OVERTAKES MEN IN CAGE.,, ■ DESPERATE RINGING—A TERRIBLE -(flee. Novetober 16, 9.10 p.m.) , New York, November IG. Further reports of the disaster at the Cherry Mine. (Spring. .Valley)/: show'that thirteen out of a scarch. party of fourteen pefished owing to Cawley, the engine-driver in ' charge of tho hoisting plant, implicitly obeying the orders only to hoist,the cage-in .response to tlie regulation code oi. signals, ; /The, search tho flames,, iiid suffocating smoke, had reached the cage, and, in their hurry, pulled the Signal rope wildly,, instead, of "soflnding the distinct iiuthber of bells prescribed for tho , signal to hoist the cage* Their: comrades on the .surface implored Cawley to hoist the cage; biit ho-would : not, wt.itintf for tho regulation sigflal.; Me(inwliilfe tile flames dvertdok the party.. ) A survivor, wto/was ; badly burned, - states : that when, he was hearing the shaft, he passed 65 men sitting in a row along a gallery of the taine,. resign^.awaiting death; He tried to arouse them to attempt to escape,' but they ■would., not stir: . ■' ■. ;■ A fresh outbreak of fire, with increased vio-» lence, occurred yesterday, and the shaft WftS awirt sealed. ' Hejio of furtlieir rescues 'is'ndw abatidoned. disaster has hiade a thousand children orphaiiSi . •• >