Show PROBES BEGUN S IN MINE BLAST MADRID N. N M. M Dec 8 This P This coal mining to town n one one of i the oldest in the state accepted philosophically today the explosion which killed 14 miners It is a fate tate that stalks every miner said one of ot the 64 who escaped escaped- yes escaped yesterdays yesterdays yes underground blast at the Morgan Jones mine Why not accept accept ac nc ac- ac it S Federal and state officials began an investigation Mine owners although al though not certain of ot the cause said sale gas may have ignited For ten hours yesterday the fate late 6 of bf often ten of ot the thc miners was unknown ant anta and anda a large crowd of at anxious relatives gathered at the mine entrance Four of the bodies were found soon after the explosion in fc k drift tunnel The Thc Theother Theother I other ten were discovered late in the afternoon about a mile underground I The bodies were kept in the shaft shaf until night and then taken to the hospital hos hos' hospital pital of the owners of the mine A Abarge large barge crowd of relatives followed the trucks a mlle from the mouth of the mine to the hospital and there positive positive post tive Identification of ot the dead was made The dead dead all of Mexican descent descent dc de- de- de scent and all aU married except one were Bony Gabaldon Augustine Padilla Pa dilla Angel Ortiz Guadalupe Morales Mo rales Juan Pablo Julien Jullen Manuel Cabera Macias Damacio Perez Juhan Julian Ju Ju- Ju lI han lian n Garcia Garda Francisco Baitzar Baltzar Bait Balt- Baitzar zar Oaxaca and Eusabio Ramos In 1922 there were 14 men killed in an an explosion and in 1896 a similar accident took 24 lives and scores were ere injured Those disasters oc cc in mines other than the scene of yesterdays yesterday's explosion S. S |