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Show MEET AWFUL DEffi EIGHTEEN LIVES SNUFFED OUT BY EXPLOSION IN AN OHIO COAL MINE. Some of the Victims Believed to Have Been Suffocated by After Damp, Whllo Others Met Instant In-stant Death. Stubenvllle, O. Tho lives of eighteen eigh-teen minors wero snuffed out In a tremendous explosion In the Youghlo-gheny Youghlo-gheny & Ohio Conl company's mlno nt Amsterdam Friday night. Seven men, bruised und burned, wore rescued from tho mine, and their escape from death Is regarded as miraculous. Tho Interior of tho mlno was wrecked and all ventilation shut off. Tho causo has not yet been determined. Tho mlno had been inspected but two days beforo the explosion by Deputy Inspector Thomas Morrison. From tho condition underground, it Is said the explosion In point of forco was tho groatost ever recorded In Ohio. When the explosion occurred, poo-plo poo-plo thought there had been nn earthquake. earth-quake. A train was passing tho mine nnd every window In every car was shattered. The trainmen fled, as a car of dynamlto was attached to the train. After working all night, the rescuing rescu-ing crows located six bodies. During tho afternoon, government experts from the geologlcnl laboratory at Pittsburg arrived with oxygen outfits. They failed to find more bodies. E. O. Jones, the night superintendent, superintend-ent, was blown over several cars, and gns flames passed over him. Jones, when found, was badly burned burn-ed and bruised. All tho other men rescued wore burned, but none seriously. seri-ously. Two mcri, brothers, were found locked in each other's arms. This leads to the boliof that tho men wero not killed Instantly, but were suffocated suffo-cated by aftor-damp. |