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Show COLORADO COAL MINE EXPLOSION. Seventy-five Minora Have a Narrow E.enpe From Kudil.n Deeta Denver, Feb. 3. A Newcastle, Colo., special says: A mammoth mine disaster disas-ter occurred here last evening in the (irand Kiver coal and coke mines. As the day shift, comprised of seventy-live men, was about to leave the mine, a terrific explosion occurred, aud immediately imme-diately black smoke came pouring over the side of the mountain. Soon willing hands started the hoisting machinery and the seventy-five miners were brought to the surface, some more dead than alive, none of them too soon, as the (lames immediately reached the shaft and came up with such feree as to drive everybody away. Explosions have followed every few hours. It is impossible to tell if anyone failed to get out. It is thought that several have perished. |