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Show Siiftocaied in a Coal Miue. Cleveland, O., 11. It is reported that between 1 and 2 o'clock this afternoon af-ternoon an explosion occurred in the mines of the Brookfield coal company, compa-ny, near Wheatland, Pa., on the line of the Erie & PittBburg railroad. Fourteen bodiea have already been recovered. There is said to have been between thirty and forty men at work at the time of the explosion. Later The Brookfield coal mine disaster was exaggerated. Laler advices ad-vices say six were killed Robert Williams, Miles Davis, John Jones, David Jenkins, Richard Jones and John Barter. Twenty-nine escaped, though nearly suffocated. The manager man-ager of the mine ordered that anthracite an-thracite instead of the usual soft coal be burned in the locomotive engine which hauls out the coal. Shortly! after the engine had passed into the slope the men became suffocated by! the gu3 from the hard coal and fell senseless to the ground. The engineer engi-neer managed to get to the mouth of the bank, and gave tho alarm, and a number of men rushed to the rescue, but were themselves speedily overcome. over-come. By judicious management all these were finally taken out, but six were either dead or died soon after reaching the open air. j |