Show Casualties San Francisco 12 Accounts of the Pinole disaster vary some saying two Chinamen were killed and three mortally mor-tally wounded others that one was killed and one mortally wounded while employees em-ployees injuries consist of alight wounds from flying splinters The company claim that no powder exploded and that steam was the sole cause of the disaster This seems contradicted by the evidence of the force of the explosion which shat tered widely separated buildings and I distributed cartridge cases for a great distance dis-tance The loss is estimated at 20000 Oskaloosa Iowa 12Thomas Walters Walt-ers and Jasper Newton miners were overpowered by foul airin a coal mine Walters is dead and Newton cannot recover re-cover |