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Show DYNAMITE EXPLODES; THIRTEEN ARE LOST Only One of tho Crew Being Lowered Into Shaft of Coal Mine j Escapes. i SCRANTON Pa.. Dec. Thirteen mineworkers were killed in the Diamond shaf: of the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western Coal company here toriav when a box of dynamite being lowered into the mine with fourteen men exploded, wreck-in? wreck-in? the descending carriage and dropping the victims to the bottom of tho shaft. ; The one man who escaped alive is Martin Eellnskl, a driver boss. The accident occurred when the men were froing: to work and at a time when the entrance to the mine was crowded with men waiting to be lowered to the various levels. The carriage had descended to about (X) feet from the bottom of the shaft when for some unknown causa the dynamite exploded. The cape was ripped to pieces and all the men were dropped Into the water and mine refuse at the bottom. Nearly all the victims were badly man pled and snme were torn to pieces, showing: that they were Instantly killed by the explosion. |