Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-24 | Page 1 | Seventy-Nine Men Die in Explosion

SEVENTY-NINE MEN DIE IN EXPLOSION r Eight Bodies Recovered ; Disaster in Coal Mine at Stellarton, Nova Scotia. I HALIFAX. N. S.. Jan. 2C Seventv- I nine men are believed to have perished in I an explosion tonight In the Allan shaft ! of the Acadia Coal company's collieries at Stellarton, N. jS. Eleven on a higher level at the time of the explosion escaped, but the others on the lower level were entombed. J-Jifjht bodies have been recovered by rescue workers. The explosion occurred .lust after the night shift had gone to work. The Allan shaft, one of tlie most productive pro-ductive in Canada, is also one of the most dangerous. Fires caused by spontaneous spon-taneous combustion are of frequent occurrence. oc-currence. j The men who came out iVve were in l the SOO-foot level. They did not hear the explosion, but, smelling smoke, ran ; for the cage. When tlie cage was low , ered they boarded it and were hoisted to , the surface. Fifteen or twenty of those caught ,n the i mine were Belgian refugees.