Show Blast Exacts Toll of Lives Clymer Pa six Forty six Forty miners were believed to have been killed here last Thursday in an explosion which wrecked the interior of ot Clymer No 1 mine of oC the Clearfield Bituminous Coal corporation Four men escaped alive and are in a hospital seriously ed Practically all hope for the entombed entombed en en- men was abandoned after arter after Dr W. W E E. Dodd com company pan physician explored ex ex- explored the mine as far tar as possible He said the blast caused widespread devastation de de- devastation and that the tunnels were 80 so heavy with gas that no human could survive He said that within the slope under piles of or rock he saw the bodies of or six miners Some were badly badh badly bad bad- ly h mangled while others he said bore boro no marks indicating that they were victims of gas |