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Show HIRTEEN KILLED II MBEEIDENT ourteenth Man Saved by Clinging- to Bar of Cage When Platform Fell. sRANTOX. Dec. P. Thirteen mine trkeii" wtT killed (it tho Tripp shall the PeUiwaiv, l.iu'kaanua i Wtsi-! Wtsi-! Coal coimauy 'a Diamond colliery rP today, when tho pluttorm of a bp race on which they were btun cored into tho miin collapsed and .tpped e,t tn l'ttom of tho lit. A fourteenth man saved himself lir.'in: to the case. The accident urreJ when the uieu wore going to Vhn Hdiuski. n drive boss, and the ;v man in the cane to OM-upe alive, Wed that ho had always had au in-nai in-nai v tRr ot miiio carriages, and it ho had made it a practice for vral vears to Hing to tho side bars rv time he rode up and dowu. After floor of the once dropped ho clung thA rod and tht'ii climbed down the tftim to safotv. iVhat caused tne collapse ot tjic car- has not vet been determined, i fliat it carried more men than is cwed under the law was admitted by . company oilicials. They were at a s, however, to account for the viola-o. viola-o. Tho law limit in cr the capacity of nine carriage to teii men was passed "consequence of an accident at tho re colliery in 1S0S. wh-m a cable e and dropped the cago several id red tet. killing thirteen of the e-;a men aboard. t was Srst believed That today's :dcnt was caused bv an explosion of :annu bur investigation failed to iv anv evidence of an explosion. iVhiic the bodies of the victims were Ilv mangled by tho wreckage of tho ri;ii,re lulling on them they bore no rks"TO indicate that there had been explosion. R. A. Phillips, genera! leriuteudcut of the company, said, rrever. th:tr one man might have ppod a sr.HiI! tick of dynamite or ox of detonators, which would have ;ed au exnlosiou of sufficient force shatter the platform of tho cage, "oroner W. M. Lynch and S. J. Phil a mine inspector, are conducting iDve?:igation. |