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Show ' CIS EXPLOSION " - IK COM IE TciTioic Accident at Small Mining Town 'in West ' Virginia. Ten Bodies Have Been Recovered,, and It Is Believed That Between Fifty and Seventy-five Have Lost Their Lives as Result . of' the Accident. Fairmont, W. Va: Ten mon are known to bo dead, twonty-flvo Injured and from twonty-flvo to sov'enty-flvo missing and believed to. bo idead as tho result of an explosion of gas in tho shaft of tho Century Coil company com-pany at Century, a smalt mining town. Tho explosion took place at 4:30 in 'the afternoon, but owing to ho telephone tele-phone wires being put out of commission commis-sion by tho high winds, detnlls are lacking-and tho names of tho Victims, six of wnom aro known to bo foreigners, foreign-ers, havo not been secured. Tho Century mino, which is owned by Shaw Brothers of Baltimore, Is ono of tho largest Independent operations In northern West Virginia. Over 250 men aro employed dally In tho shaft, and had the explosion been an hour earlier tho loss of llfo would havo boon nppalllng. As It wns, thero wero but a fow rcmnlnlng In tho shaft, tho main body of tho minors hnvlng quit work for tho day. The giant fan which furnishes nlr for tho shaft was pnrtlally wrecked by tho forco of .tho explosion, but wob repaired Immediately Imme-diately nnd within an hour after tho accident Superintendent Jnmes Ward had a relief gang In the mine. The first trip out brought ton men five- dead and flvo badly burned. They wcro found In tho main heading near tho bottom of tho shaft. Tho living could give no details of tho explosion, ex-plosion, saying they wero on their way to the surface when tho explosion took placo behind them. |