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Show MANY KILLED III MINE JXPLOSION Disaster Occurs in Prussian Property, One Hundred and Sixty Being Killed Fatal Fire Damp Brings Death to Throng of Workmen, the Poisonous Poison-ous Gasses That Filled the Chambers Hampering Work of Rescuer. Saarbruck. A fire damp explosion centred Monday morning in tho Rcden coal mlno at St. John-on-Star, pposlto Saarbuck, and caused tho oss of from 160 to 200 lives. Tho mine is owned by tho Prussian government. gov-ernment. Soventy-sovcu bodies had boon broght out nnd fifty-nix corpses are known to bo underground. Only ilfty llvo mon have been brought out. and ot theso the doctors say at least'thlr-ty-flvo will die, as they aro frightfully fright-fully injured through having beon burled against tho walls of tho galleries galler-ies by tho forco of tho explosion. An official report says tho numbor of doad cannot exceed 1C0, Immediately after tho explosion rescuo res-cuo workers wero hurried from all tbQ adjacent mines and boldly entered lio flcdou shaft In groat numbers. The work ot resolto has been greatly hampered by the poisonous gases resulting re-sulting from tho explosion and by a flerco fire that broko out immediately afterward. This caused efforts at rescuo res-cuo to bb suspended, and tho workors had to bo ordered out ot tho mlno. After all tho rcscucra had rcachod daylight, according to ono vorslon, a socond terrific detonation was henrd underground. But nccordlng to an-othor an-othor report many of tho roscuors wero still below when tho second explosion ex-plosion occurred, and It Is estimated that thu casualty list from tho two explosions ex-plosions reaches n total of 300 men. It Is regarded as certain that tho lowest levels of tho mlno nro completely com-pletely wrecked, aud tho Inspectors aro deliberating upon furthor roens-uics roens-uics to got control of tho fire. The msuagera aro discussing tho advisability advisa-bility of flooding these levels as the only moans of extinguishing the flames. It is belloved that all Uio mon who wero In tho lowor Iovols assured-.ly assured-.ly aro dead. It will tako a full wcok I to entor and explore the mlno. |