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Show MEETDEATHIH HE TWENTY-ONE MEN MEET DEATH AS RESULT OF EXPLOSION IN COAL MINE. Deadly Fire Damp Probable Cause of Most of Deaths, Men Being Found Clasped In Each Other's Arms in Death Embrace. Dubois, la. An explosion In the huft of the Cancade Coal and Coke company at Sykesvill lute Sunday n!;ht caused the death of twenty one miners, most of them being killed almost al-most Inntantly. Among the dead are nine Italians, eight. Slavs, one Lithuanian Lithua-nian and three Americans. Twenty-seven men were at work III the mines at the time, and whether they were killed by the explosion or died as the result of Inhaling the deadly fire damp Is not known. A few bodies recovered show that they were killed by the explosion, but the ma- Jorlty had their dinner pails with them . and were making their way towards I the main entrance when cut down presumably by the lire dump. There were two sets of brothers and a father and son among those killed. George and John Hook, brothers, were found clasped In each other's arms, while Frank Pavelick and his fifteen-year-old son were alao found In a death embrace. |