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Show m LOST i cot MIHEJXPLOSIflN Fifteen Miners Taken Out, Five Dead and Rest Terribly Injured. SUPERINTENDENT LEADS IN THE WORK OF RESCUE Two Hundred and Fifty Men Were Employed in Wrecked Virginia Colliery. FAIRMONT, W. Va., Mnrch 22. An explosion ex-plosion of gas In tho mine of the Century Coal company at Century, a small mining min-ing town llfty miles Bouth of here on tho Phllllpl and Buckhannon branch of the Baltimore &. Ohio, at 4 o'clock this afternoon aft-ernoon entombed tit least 150 miners, many of whom are believed to be dead. At 0 o'clock today fifteen men were taken from tho mint-, llvo of whom wcro dend and tho rest terribly Injured. Superintendent Heads Rescuers. A relief gang, headed by Superintendent John Wnrtl, entered tho mine nt C:30, but slnco that time nothing can bo heard from tho accident, us the telephono wires havo beon put out by storms. Tho mine Is owned by Shaw Brothers of Baltlmoro nrd Is ono of tho largest In northern West Virginia. 250 In tho Mine. Two hundred and llfty men nro employed, em-ployed, but many of these camo out today to-day before tho explosion took placo. Following the explosion relief trains wcro run from Buckhannon nnd Phllllpi, taking physicians to the scone. A telephone message from Century nt 10 o'clock stated thnt six dead and ten Injured men had been tuken from the mine at Ihnt time. Feared All Are Dend. Superintendent Ward at that hour stated stat-ed he did not believe there were over twenty more men dead In the mine Tho main heading hns boon clenrcd. but fourteen sub-headings nro yet to bo explored. ex-plored. It Is feared none of the men still in tho mlno aro alive, having beon, killed in tho sub-headings- -J |