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Show FIFTY MEN WERE KILLED. An Awful JEzplo.mn In a Coal Mine at Mt. Plra.ant, Pa. PiTTsBfRO, Jan. 27. A special from Mt. Pleasant, Pa., says a gas explosion in Mammoth shaft of' II. C. Frlck Coke Co.'s mine, about tea miles from this place, occurred this morning. Between seventy and eighty men wert in the mine at the time of the explosion. Eighteen bodies have been taken out, and it is estimated that fifty of the men were killed. It is very difficult to get details of the explosion although it occurred at 9 o'clock this morning. The mines are on the Sewjickly branch pf the Fourth West railroad and are about half w ay between Lalrobe and Mount Pleasant. The machinery which runs the fan was not damaged, and plenty of fresh air was forced into the mine to sustain the living and allow the rescuing parties to enter in safety to firing out the bodies. Tho miue was badly wrecked in places. It Is not possible to gj;t . so v acejirate idea of the number or living, who are injured and who may h tr" ted or Imprisoned. Im-prisoned. There Is i fire in the mine, resulting from t e explosion, so there will bo definiti) news in a short time. It is said the most of the killed were either English speaking or German Ger-man miners. The shaft is about 100 feet deep, and has a number of galleries. galler-ies. The superintendent has organized orga-nized relief parties and is busily eu-gaged eu-gaged trying to penetrate tho mine. |