Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1910 — 136 MEN ARE ENTOMBED [ARTICLE]

136 MEN ARE ENTOMBED

Explosion Occurs in Coal Mine at Whitehaven, Eng. Four Men Are Rescued Alive, but Little Hope Is Expressed of Saving Any Others. Manchester, Eng., May 13.—An explosion in the Wellington coal mine at Whitehaven cut off the exit from 136 miners who were working below’ the surface. Rescue parties succeeded in saving four men who had been working at the bottom of the shaft. They were prevented by gas from penetrating to a point where the main body or men is imprisoned. Every indication was that the inner workings of the mine w r ere on fire and there was the gravest apprehension regarding the entombed men. The fire in the mine is gaining and there is no hope for those imprisoned.