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Show FIFTY MINERS ENTOMBED. Explosion of Gas In Illinois Mine BMnrjs Sorrow to Many Homes. 8omo fifty-miners wcro entombed Mondny In Joseph Lcltrr's mine nt Zolglor, Ills., by a torrlllo explosion of gas nnd It Is probablo that thirty or forty of tho burled men nro dead. Thus far four bodies havo been found. Tho explosion was duo to tbo fact that tho Lcftor mines nro not worked on Sunday, thus allowing gas to accumulate accumu-late In tho lower workings. When between thlrty-flvo and forty-11 forty-11 vo miners hnd descended Into tho mlno Mondny to resumo work n tor-rllle tor-rllle explosion blew tho timbers about tho mouth of tho mlno high Into tho air. Ono of the steal cages wcro blown to tho surface from tho bottom of a 500 foot bhnft Tho shock of tho explosion ex-plosion was felt nt Donton, twolve miles distant. |