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Show ANOTHER MINING HORROR.1 Veterday'sdispa:ehes brought -ome details of an explosiou by black-damp in a Pennsylvania mine. Kor some reason unknown wo failed to obtain tho i tirat account of tho terrible all'air, which evidently oivurred on Monday. Tho mine was an old otic, comparatively compara-tively worked out, ami known to be dangerous, yet miners were kept in it at the risk of their live-, a risk that f proved a fatal one to probably twenty men who were in it when the explosion i took place. The owners and superin-! tendent ot the mine arc unquestionably ; to blame, and the blame is ofa serious j character. Kuowi'ig that Mack-damp! was there, they yet kept men at work j in the very jaw of deat h to get a little more coal from a place nearly exhausted , of its wealth. Cupidiiy alone could i prompt them to such a couie, and they could not but understand the character of colliers in general, which : liecorues reckless of danger while work- j ing for no more than a mere pittance1 on which to live. What with coal: mine explosions, boiler explosions, and'1 railroad disasters, it i& time that legis-: iatures should pa.-s some stringent ' law? to protect the lives of workmen aud the public, uud hold tbo,-e. re-; sponsible for such tragic drcumstan-i1 ces who trifle with the live of their : Icllow-beings. |