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Show THREE MEN PERISH IN EXPLOSION Homestead Steel Plant Is Scene of Mysterious and Fatal Accident PITT8BITBO, April 8 Three men eay f pf feagfSJgdl w death aaatfj (Wtt OtoHTw probably fatally injured in an explosion explo-sion at the Homestead worka of the United Statea Steel corporation this morning. Twenty men were at work in that section of the riant where slag from the fumacen ia broken up, when, from some cause at present unknown, a terrific ter-rific explosion occurred. Men ware tossed about ia all directions, some of them being thrown beyond the range of the flying metal. The three who were killed ware buried under a maaa of slag and burned beyond recognition. The names of the dead and injured will not be knows until the company's, roll books have been examined. |