Show I I i I I I i SEVEN KILLED BY EXPLOSION Ten Others Injured in Mine Horror in Anthracite Fields Pottsville Pa July Jul 15 Seven mine mineworkers workers were killed and ten others In Injured Injured today by b a terrific explosion of gas In the colliery of the Sum Summit mit Branch Mining company compan in the lower lowe part of or the anthracite coal fields The fhe mine was wrecked and set on fire The explosion slon occurred in No Xo 1 shot shaft of oC the colliery collier and Is believed to have been caused by b one of oC the men lifting the gauze of o his safety lamp Just after an explosion of a shot which brought down a large body bod of ot coal The explosion shook the entire colliery The work of oC rescue was Immediately be begun begun gun and when volunteers were called for almost every man at the workings of offered offered his services which meant a haz hazardous hazardous trip into the burning mine Near the foot of ot the shaft the injured were found they having rushed toward to ard the entrance only to fall over unconscious All of o the Ue dead were found a short dis distance distance tance from the shaft battered and aDd burned Into an almost unrecognizable mass maSsI I |