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Show M eke AN MINE KXPLOBION KUL9 eiOHTV-HCVEN I'EOPLS. ev.M llsn.lfs-l Toa. of Ilj mite !.-teritf'l !.-teritf'l Hl OIT, tTreehlnc a l'ro.peroas 1 llnlnx tlllaae. v Adipslch from (hlhuiliua, Mexico, Frlla, "J aeveral hundred tone of dytialle timed In au underground chamfer of the hin Antonio mine, alt-uatedln alt-uatedln the Hlerra Madrea, In the werun part of the Htate of Dnrango, exploit with terrible force, blowing thawkoletopof the mountain off and deitrctlnffa portion of the village of mlnen there, I3KHy seven men, women and children chil-dren eere killed and many olhera badly bad-ly lljatrd I 'A'aioigtbe killed were Herman Leu-ttmtn,iuperlntendentof Leu-ttmtn,iuperlntendentof the mine, and bliftolty. Uerulo wires, connecting with the holitlif machinery, passed through the roou In which this dynamite wat atored, and Itlt supposed that tbeae wlrti tecatne crossed, thereby causing a fire vhlch s. olf the dynamite. All of the killed and Injured were located lo-cated ea the aurface, most of them oo-cupjltf oo-cupjltf reside ncet right over tha un-dergrctnd un-dergrctnd worklngtof the inluo, and tha vkllnt of the catattrophe were blown Into smell pieces. At tie time of tho explosion there wertittertl hundred miners at work In tit lower worklngaof the mine, and, airing, to isy, none of them were seriously seri-ously lijored; although they were all etirtlj shocked by the terrlOo force of the eiptotlon. They rushed to the aurfice through one of the ihifta that waa net tiled with debris, nnd the light ttst met their eyea In tho almost corapleUJtitructlou of tbellttlo village la loilesevttiible, The work of gallierlng up the frng-meuU.61tbs frng-meuU.61tbs unfortuuate victims of the explotloi tcittered over the mountain wis berno, and they were placed together to-gether tad burled In one grave. Hut few of U mangled remains were roc-ognltabV roc-ognltabV Buramomci were tent to nelglibonig campi for lurgcom to attend at-tend I to lie Injured, ind It waa tome tlmi before they arrived. Th? tin Andrea mine It the moat eels fraud allvcr mine In Mexico. It It valued at 1:9,000,000. It lua produced pro-duced may mllllooi of dolliri' worth of ore. |