Like Rats in a Trap

Based on a news article from the Charlotte Daily Observer – August 13, 1904:

MEN DIED LIKE RATS IN TRAP

“All the facts attainable in the frightful catastrophe yesterday at the Barringer mine were given out this afternoon. There was a waterspout. Eight men had been at work but a short time when the water rushed into the place at an estimated rate of 100,000,000 gallons in five minutes.”