Show MINERS DIE IN EXPLOSION J I Seventeen Aro Killed In the Algoma Mines wear Blueflelds West Virginia Blueflelds W I Va Sept lA gas I and powder explosion occurred here today to-day In the Big Four mine of the Al goma Coal and Coke company as the result of which James Lester an engineer engi-neer John Relckle a Hungarian miner mi-ner and fifteen colored miners were killed antI their bodies were brought out of the mine at 11 oclock trjjght Several of the rescuers were overcome b y the gas and brought out uncon eclous before the bodies could be reached The explosion la said to have been caused l by an accumulation of gas catching on Ore from tho lamp of a minor and this In turn llrcd six kegs of blasting powder that had been stored Kick In the mine The explosion knocked down all the mittlces for a quarter of a mile back toward the mine entrance tbu cutting off all the air from the men Imprisoned behind l the debris |