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Mine Tragedy Unfolds: Three Miners Lost, New York, 1909

Tragedy struck deep beneath the earth in the St. Wul mine of New York’s coal-rich veins. The mine was sealed off, its entrance tightly locked at the late hour of tonight, after a day of fruitless efforts to rescue three missing miners. The mine’s main shaft was opened yesterday, and experts made three descents into the depths, but their endeavors were met with an atmosphere ‘very bad’ and temperatures that were only ‘bearable.’

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