MINERS BURIED About One Hundred Entombed at Pittson, PA. SMALL HOPES OF RESCUE Hundreds of Tons of Earth Caved In Upon The Doomed Men. The Disaster Had Threatened For Some Days and the Men Were Trying to Prevent the Very Calamity Which Occurred - Two Men and a Boy, Who Had Started to Leave the Slope, the Only Ones Who Escaped - The Fall Followed by a terrific Detonation Whish Was Heard Miles Away and Shook the Entire Town - Mining Experts Declare it Will Be Ten Days Before the Bodies of the Victims Can Be Rescued - Thousands of People, Including Friends and Relatives of the Doomed Men, Surround the mouth of the Shaft and Give Vent to Their Grief. Wilkes-Barrie, PA, June 29, - While 90 miners were at work in the Red Ash vein of the Twin Shaft at Pittson, about 3 o'clock Sunday morning the roof caved in and it is believed that all the men perished. About 40 of the imprisoned men were English-speaking miners, the others foreigners. The Names of the Former are. M. J. LANGAN: inside superintendent. Edward BUCKLEY; John CASEY; Edwin ROGERS; James KEHOE; James MCDONALD; Edward DELANEY; Cornelius MCGUIRE; James GOLDEN; M. O'BRIEN; Michael HUGHES; Edward KILDAY; James BURKE; Pat RUANE; Thomas TENPENNY; J. H. LYNOTT; inside foreman. Alex McCORMACK; fire boss. Robert HASTON; machinist. Thomas MURPHY; driver boss. The Following Miners: Thomas COSTELLO; J. H. KELLEY; Michael GAUDHAN; John HART; James DAILY; Michael CONNELL; Daniel WARD; Frank KEHOE; James CLEARY; Michael R. GAFFNEY; Thomas DERING; Anthony KANE; J. W. MURPHY; Owen LEE; Anthony GORDON; James WALL; and his son; Dominick O'MALLEY; Peter MARTIN; Michael FORD; Thomas DUBRICK; Thomas DEMPSEY; Thomas CARLIN; Patrick GIBBONS; John O'BOYLE; Peter JOYCE. Aside from these there may be other English-speaking miners among the unfortunates. Thirty Polanders and Huns were entombed and it is thought that the total number of bodies will top 100. The men were at work propping up the roof when the fall occurred. The alarm was immediately given by the ringing of the fire bells and rescuers were put to work without delay. At 8 o'clock in the afternoon the first bodies were found in the slope, some distance from the place where the men were working.. More then two-thirds of the victims were married men and leave families. Among them were acting Mayor LANGAN, who was inside superintendent of the mine and J. H. LYNOTT, a ward councilman. About two weeks ago the surveyors reported to General Superintendent LAW that the mine was "squeezing" and unless steps were immediately taken to timber it a cave-in or fall might be looked for. Superintendent LAW lost no time, but at once put a number of lumbermen at work to brace the falling roof. The "squeeze" continued, however, and Saturday the situation became alarmingly. In the afternoon a light fall occurred, and the men at work had to retreat before it. A consultation of mine officials was then held and it was decided that heroic measures would have to be resorted to prevent heavy damage to the mine. Inside Superintendent LANGAN gave instructions that the most experienced miners should be secured and that the party would go down the mine at 7 o'clock. Expert lumbermen put in appearance at that hour and were soon lowered into the workings. They made their was to Red Ashe vein, 1,500 feet down the slope. The work of propping proceeded rapidly until 11 o'clock when another fall occurred. It made another rumbling noise and the flying coal and debris drove the men back. Then the "squeeze" ceased again and the men thought it safe to resume work. They labored until 3:20 o'clock when, as it is presumed, the roof fell in without warning, making a tremendous crash. It is supposed, however, that the men were not all together but some but some near the slope, and those probably ran up the incline when the fall occurred. This is the only way the finding of Mayor LANGAN'S body in the slope can be accounted for. If the men had received any warning, they have had had time to run up the slope, but not to any great distance. The falling rock and coal filled up the slope and the adjoining gangways, completely shutting off all avenues of escape. It was at first supposed that the men might have escaped being caught in the fall and that they were imprisoned behind the debris, but the finding of the two bodies would go to disprove this. It is possible, however, that living men may still be behind the fall, although it is extremely improbable. Even if they escaped being crushed by the falling roof, the probability of their being alive in a gaseous mine is remote. The alarm was first given by Water Carrier John SHERIDAN, who with William RICHARD and Thomas GILL were the only ones to escape of the whole party who entered the mine. He was on his way up the slope to get some fresh water for the men, and when about 100 feet from the foot of the shaft he was knocked down by the concussion. He was badly cut and burned by flying coal and rock. He lay unconscious for ten minutes and then came up the shaft. The concussion was so great that it was heard for miles around. (to be continued) Bill Grummons