Show I HUNDRED VICTIMS OF MINE DISASTER Explosion in Coal Mine Which Had Just Been Inspected by Deputy State Mine Inspector Either a Pocket of Gas or the Seepage Seep-age from a Gas Well Was the Cause of Accident Which Caused Fearful Loss of Life Plttsburg More than 100 men woro killed by an explosion In the lUarlanua mines of the 1lttnbiirgUuf falo Coal company on Saturday which entombed a largo number of miners About fifty of the victims it is reported re-ported about tho mine were either Americans or English pealdng men A majority of tho foreigners were comparatively new arrivals in the country many of them having left families in their old homes Tho workings in which the catastrophe catas-trophe happened are known as the nacho and Agnes mines In reality a double mine with underground connections Construction work was practically finished and Deputy State Mine Inspector Henry Ixwtitt a few minutes before tho explosion had completed a two days Inspection which had revealed no cause for apprehension ap-prehension Tho cause of the I explosion has not boon determined Two theories arc entertained Ono is that u pocket ol gas wits struck by ono of the miners quickly filling tho workings and then igniting from a lamp Tho other theory the-ory Is that gas from n well on the Fulton farm under which the mine is located penetrated the workings The laud In tho vicinity Is said to bo fiooous and it is possible gas may have seeped through tho coal stratum until it accumulated In sufficient volume vol-ume to cause tho disaster So great was tho force of the ox plosion that shattered portions of the woodwork about tho mouth of tho shaft were blown into Ien Milo creek 2000 feet away Besides tho throe men in the cage portions of at least two other bodies were blown from tho shaft house and were found In a field nearby |