Show CAVE IN KILLS KILLS 13 MORE MINERS AT OKLAHOMA 27 Meet Death in Explosion Explosion Explosion sion at Alabama Coal CoalMine CoalMine Mine 26 Escape ILLINOIS DEATH TOLL IS FIVE Colorado Blast Fatal to 3 Rescue Crews Work to Save Entombed Men MIAMI Okla Okia Jan 30 AP AP- AP Three miners were killed today when a a slab of rock estimated to weigh tons fell on them in the Velie-Lion Velie lead and zino zinc mine at Cardin A few minutes later three members of a rescue party were J slightly injured by a second fall fail of loose rock and dirt t The dead are A. A BLUNK 57 Commerce Okla Okia 1 EVERETT MCLAIN 21 Commerce Com Corn merce Okla Okia CHURCH 21 Comm Com Com- m merce ce A member of a rescue party that entered the mine a few minutes after the accident was injured and two others had narrow escapes when a second fall of rock occurred The second fall interrupted the work of recovering and identifying identify identify- ing the bodies BIRMINGHAM BIR Ala Jan ran 30 By Byth Bythe Bythe th the Associated Press Rescue Press Rescue crews cres today were bringing out the the last of the twenty-seven twenty miners eleY eleven n white and sixteen negroes i who were killed In the explosion at atthe atthe 1 the Mossboro mine of the Premier i Coal company near here late yes- yes Twenty-six Twenty of the fifty fifty- I three men In the mine at the time of the blast escaped uninjured c The tragedy brought the tile total number of or min miners gs killed In three ex explosions ex- ex ons throughout qt the th country during dOling the day to thirty to Five were killed at West Frankfort I Ill 1 in an explosion in the New Orient mine the worlds world's greatest coal producer producer producer pro pro- ducer three met death in a agas agas agas gas explosion in a Bear Canyon Coal company mine near Trinidad Cob Colo while while three men were killed Ina in ina a at a Cardin Okla mine The crews sent to the remote mining camp from the United States bureau of mines In Birmingham Birmingham Birmingham ham and from mines near the scene o of the disaster labored throughout the night under the direction of State Mine Inspector J. J H. H Nesbitt and had removed all but three bodies bodies bodles bod- bod ies les entombed by rock falls fails when dawn broke over the little valley of disaster SECOND FATAL BLAST The llie blast which occurred yesterday yester yester- day shortly after atter 4 o'clock was the second in the Birmingham c district within the past two months a blast at Overton mine No 2 havIng having haying hav hay ing killed three fifty miners on December December De- De cember 11 The explosion occurred d at at wh what t 7 Continued on page 5 l 27 MINERS ARE BLAST VICTIMS AT BIRMINGHAM Continued from page 1 miners call shooting time Each day when the miners are ready to quit work several shots are made to loosen coal for the next days day's wor work One of these shots hit bit a pocket of 01 gas and caused the ex ex- ex The mine was of 01 a single slope and had twelve entries six on each side The explosion occurred halt way down the slope The mine had been in operation five years ears and was rated non gaseous The slope is in an Isolated part of Shelby county and very hard to reach making rescue work cult It was several hours before trained Crews crews reached the scene Volunteer crews headed by G. G W. W Postel owner of the mine and Charles Hines foreman went into the mine and brought out many who were not Injured d but were unable to reach the surface Many stories of horror were told I by tho those e who were rescue rescued rescue 1 Some told of relatiVes tes and fi lends friends who were killed as they stood by their side while sheets of 01 flame swept through the slopes and en en- en tries Others told lold of laying in the darkness and fearing that they were entombed Hundreds of people visited the mine during the night the larger part of 01 whom were relatives or friends of the entombed men seekIng seeking seeking seek seek- ing to learn who were the dead and who were the saved The disaster was wa's of the same na nature nature nature na- na ture as the score or more of such mishaps that have taken a large toll tollof tollof tollof of life in the Alabama coal fields in the past twenty five years |