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Show HUNDRED VICTIS " OF MIFOISASTER Explosion in Coal Mine Which Had Just Been Inspected by Deputy State Mine Inspector. Either a Pocket of Gas or the Seepage Seep-age from a Qas Well Was the Cause of Accident Which Caused Fearful Lots of Life. Pittsburg. Moro than 100 men wero killed by nn oxploslon In tho Marlannn minus of tho Plttsburg-Iluf-folo Coal company on Saturday, which entombed u Inrgo number ot minors. , About fifty of tho victims, It Is reported re-ported about the mine, wore either Amorlcnns or Kngllsh-spcuklng men. A mnjority of tho foreigners wero comparatively now nr rivals In the country, many of them having loft families In their old homos. Tho workings In which tho catastrophe catas-trophe happened nro known as tho Itacbcl and Agnos mlnos, In reality a doublo mlno with underground connections. Construction work was practically finished and Deputy iato Mlno Inspector Honry Lotitllt a fow minutes before tho oxploslon had complotpd a two days' Inspection which had revealed no cnnno for apprehension. The eniiBo of the explosion has not been detormlned. Two tliuorleH ure ontortalncd. One Is Mint n pocket of gas waa struck by ono of tho miners, quickly filling tho workings nnd then Igniting from n Inmp. Tho other theory the-ory Is Mint gaB from a well on the Pulton form, unUor which the mlno Is located, penetrated the workings. Tho land In thu vicinity Is said to bo gaseous and It Is possible gas may hnvo seeped through the coal stratum until It accumulated In sufficient volume vol-ume to oauso the disaster. So great was tho forro of tho el-plosion el-plosion that shnttorcd portions ot thu woodwork about tbo inoutli ol tho shaft wore blown Into Tcn-Mllo week, 2,000 feet away. Hesldes tho three men In tho cago, portions of nt least two other bodies wore blown from tho shaft houso and woro found In a field nearby. |