Show DUST EXPLOSION KILLS MANY m MANY OF THE INJURED MINERS RESCUED FROM COLLIERY MAY DIE trapped men man who fall to escape into adjoining mine save lives live by the erection of brat tices cices birmingham following rescue work which progressed throughout the night officials of the goodward Ito odward iron mine company owners 0 of dolomite mine no 3 where a dust explosion trapped miners wednesday afternoon a announced n that eighty three bodies had bad been taken from the mine and that they feared the total toll toli of dead might reach approximately sixty men were reported to have been in aured by tile the blast scenes of pathos about the mine mouth during the night and early morning hours continued as relatives and families of miners known to have been in the mine when the blast occurred waited expectantly for news ut of their loved ones one many of these men it was believed had reft reached ched the surface safely the he runway connecting the mine with mine no 2 and had reentered entered re the workings to help in rescue work without communication with company officials or relatives one re cuer told of an unidentified mine foreman who assembled about him thirty workers and soon after the blast took place ordered all to remain alth with him and work on fixing up brat tices cices with stones and canvass to shut off the dreaded alter after damp gas that lie he felt sure wits to follow the explosion according to the rescue workers one miner objected to remaining with the rest of the men and began to tight fight ills his way nay outward the rest stayed behind and completed tho the brattice of stones and canvass when the fans were started and the air cleared sufficiently to make it safe to tear do down don n the temporary wall and the foreman led his men 0 out u t the body of the man who refused t to 0 stick with the rest was found only a few feet away from the temporary brattice a victim of the gas tales of single miners who hurriedly built walls across niches and hollows in the workings stopping the chinks with parts of their own clothing and thus saving their lives from the gases were numerous as rescue squads reach ed the surface |