Show r 1 GAS EXPLOSION EXPLOSIONS S IN MINE CLAIMS J i TOll Of WEST FRANKFORT III J Jan n. n 10 AP AP Gas Gat that invisible menace men men- ace of f the coal miner h. h has added twenty one lives to its ita lengthening I list liat Th The twenty one were killed yesterday yesterday yes yes- esI es I t by a terrific ten gas JS explosion in the passage of the peabody In Industrial Industrial Industrial In- In mine No 18 Six hundred feet underground and more than a mile from the surface most of ot the miners were killed outright The others died from the afterdamp that followed the explosion State and county Investigations today sought to fix the explosions explosion's cause A. A D. D Lewis state director I of mines who put on pit clothing and made a a. personal inspection I was conducting the states state's investigation investigation gation while Coroner Coroners Joe JIm Hill of county Impaneled a a. Jury to investigate the disaster for the county Coming without warning shortly after miners had taken their places At a. a m. m the explosion killed all aU the men working In four adjoining rooms BODIES TAKEN OUT Three mine rescue crews fought their way through gas and crumbled crumbled crumbled crum crum- bled walls of coal and timber to bring the bodies to the shaft where they were lifted to the surface last night Two of the dead men were found within a a. few feet teet of ot fresh air and safety Another had made his way to to a a. t trapdoor r where he could have bave escaped A bravo brave effort by Da David DaId Id McPhail to save sae his brother Robert was ro ro- ro David upon hearing the blast rushed into the passage and after three dashes into the deadly gas found his bis brother but was forced by the tho gas to drop him within fUt fifteen n feet of fresh air Evidently realizing his doom Ray nay Farrell chalked the number of oC his mine room on the soles of his feet where It was found when his bod body was discovered The other Bodies were identified by the numbers on their safety lamps Many were mutilated and disfigured by the explosion ONE MAN RAVING B. B Cremeans a a. survivor was as found in a walled in space raving and irrational from shock The explosion was the third misfortune to befall betaU miners In No 18 The Tho first was vas an explosion In 1920 which resulted in loss of life Ufa and gave the mine a a. reputation of being hot an adjective applied to gaseous mines In 1925 the tornado swept away tho the tipple and men at work were forced to climb to the surface through the air shafts Tho The mine was flooded with water two years ego ago go by the management I after the 1920 explosion in an effort effort ef effort ef- ef fort to extinguish a slow fire SECTION W WALLED OFF It was found necessary later to wall walI ot off a large portion of the un un workings because of gas gall and yesterdays yesterday's explosion was within a short distance of the twenty Inch concrete wall A revised list of ot the dea dead I today Included the name of Walter Brandon Brandon Bran Bran- don of Herrin a a. former preacher turned coal miner The name of oC GEorge eorge Carter was omitted Theother The Theother other dead are Carl CarI JoneS JoneS' David I McPhail Walter a Iter Graves Craves Ed Dodd Dad l. l E. E W. W Duger Albert Jones Kelly Lawrence George Mahler B B. B Tanner Tanner Tan Tan- ner Neely Mall Hall Andy White Leonard Leonard Leonand Leon Leon- ard and Smith Paul Kays Ray Farrell John Mitchell Lloyd Bradley Orval Simons C. C P. P Caraway all of ot otest West est Frankfort Jerald day of ot Benton and Aubra Stone of Marlon Marion |