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Show j Serious Accident. ! i Pittsburg, 0. A serious accident occurred it ere, last evening, at the , Austin coal works. The Birmington 1 train with thirty cars started from the rear of the pit with a number of mind's. min-d's. They having finished work got up oh the car to be conveyed to the front, and when within a quarter of a milcof theirdesti nation the steam gave out and the dense smoke caused by firing up, together with the foul air, exhausted to such an extent that the. engineer found it- necessary to hurry out, or fatal results would follow. When thoy reached tho open air the the boilers. When Joseph Burns, a former engineer, noticed the condition condi-tion of nllairs.-he jumped on board the locomotive and stopped it just in time to save it J'rom going through the check house and over a hill. A boy named Geo. McLean was missing, and on search being made in the pit his body was found to have been run over and his head nearly severed from his body. Several miners remain in a very precarious condition. |