Show I TELEGRAPHIC NEWS + CASUALTIES 3 earful JSsploslou in a Coal i Pit New York 19In a collision on the New Jersey Central tonight a fire man was killed The passengers on both trains were badly shaken up and some of them cut by flying splinters The signal station was demolished and the signalman signal-man hurled down the embankment London 196 explosion occurred I about noon in the Orrell pit belonging to the Abram Mining Company The pit was considered one of the safest in Lancashire Lan-cashire as neither gunpowder was used for blasting nor furnaces for ventilation the whole system of working the mine being purely mechanical Orby pit adjacent ad-jacent was also terribly selected by the explosion Of over sixty employes in I the Arby pit only twentyfive weie bn ught to the surface alive It is feared the remainder perished Die supposi tion is that 180 persons have been killed in the Orrell pit u 100 descended into the pit in the morning Ten injured persons per-sons are so far recovered 1 ha work of exploring the mine and rescuing the vic tims continues Thirtyfour were killed and thirtysix injured by the exp osion in the coal mine at Bolton It is believed the explosion was caused by the fill of a portion of the roof which liberated R quantity of gas Later It is now believed that only 40 persons were killed Orrell Xmn is 550 yards iib ve Arbyy Mine and the efrdct of the explo ion in this former imprisoned impris-oned 150 minor in the lower mine These were subsequently rescued Those rescued from tho upper seam were seriously seri-ously burned Algiers 19It is reported that 400 people were drowned by tho bursting of a dam Pergaup O |