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Show DEATH TOLL IN ALABAMA BLAST REACHES 84 Many of the 60 Injured Men - Rescued . From , Colliery May Die; Workers Form ' Emergency Rescue Crews 83 BODIES REMOVED FROM GAS POCKETS Trapped Men Who Fall to Escape Into Adjoining Mine Sere Lives by the Erection - of . Brattices BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Nav. 2S (By A. P. Eighty-four livaa war lost and aixty paraana wara Injurad aa a raault , af an aooident and axplaalan yaatarday In Dolomite No. S al'mln af tha Woodward Iran aampany, aeaordlng ta a atatamant iaauad at naon taday by Frank H. Creekard, praaidant af tha aampany. Of tha Injurad tb.lrty.fiva wara ramovad ta thair homes I twenty-flva twenty-flva wara In hospitals. Work af Idan tlfiestlon had not baan eomplsted, but It waa believed ther wara thlrty.elght whita daad and twanty whlta injurad. e aj , BIRMINGHAM. Ala, Nor. II (By A. P.) Following rescue work which progressed throughout tha night official of-ficial of the Woodward Iron eom- pany, owner of Dolomite mine No. S. where a dust zplolon trapped 475 miner yesterday afternoon, announced early today that' eighty-three bodies had been taken from the mine, and that they f eared tha total toll of dead might reach 100. "Approximately sixty men were reported to have been Injured by tha blaat I ' Bcsnaa of patho about tha nine mouth during tbe Bight and early morning hours continued aa relatives and fitf11esaaawaasiisiasi is have been la tbe mine whea tha blaat occurred oc-curred waited expectantly for news of their loved ones. Many of these men. It was believed, had' reached the surface safely through the runway connecting the tnlne with mlaa No. 1, and had reentered re-entered the working to help In rescue res-cue work without communication wltb company offlclala ot relatives. TOUCHING SCENES ENACTED. Jovoua reunions occasionally relieved re-lieved the sorrowful scenes.. One small girl gave a cry of delight aa a grimy miner emerged, his face smoke blackened and his clothing torn. The little girl threw herself Into his. arms and the pair hurried away. An aged wnman ! aald to. have collapsed as aha greeted two eona after several hours ot anxloua waiting at the entrance. en-trance. The boy, meeting rescuers In the mine aa they were making their way out and learning that the worklnga were aae again from pola-onors pola-onors gases, had instantly turned back to aid In the search for other men. thus keeping their mother In suspence until they finally reached the surface. Stories of heroism, common In coal mine dlsaater. began to trickle out thle morning as begrlmmed rescuers came to the surfsce after long boura of work In .th mln. MINERS BUILD BRATTICE. On rescuer told of an unidentified unidenti-fied mine foreman who assembled shout him thirty workers and soon sfter the blast took place, ordered all to remain with him and work on fixing fix-ing up brattice with atone and can. vans to shut off th dreaded afteV damp gas that he felt sure wa to fol- low th explosion. According to th rescue workers, one miner objected to remaining with the rest of the 1 men. and began to fight his way outward. out-ward. The rest staysd behind and completed the brattle-of atone and eanvasB. , When the fan were started and he air cleared sufficiently to make It safs to tsar down ths temporary wall and the foreman led hia men ' out, the body of the man who refused re-fused to stick with the rest waa found only a few feet away from the temporary brattice, a victim of the gas. Tale of alngle miner who hurriedly hur-riedly built walla across nlqhes and hollow in the worklnga, stopping th chinks with parts of their own clothing cloth-ing and thus saving their live from th gases, were numerous as rescue sqnada reached the surface. OFFICIAL CHECK DELAYED. It will probably be late tonight before be-fore a complete official check of the dead and injured will be available, according to company officials, who remained at the mine ail night Many ot th mora rtouslly Injurad In-jurad may succumb. It waa said, at tha hospital in Bessemer, where they were taken after they were rescued. It waa after midnight before the tat militia at th scene of the dlsaater dlsaa-ter was able to clear th district about tha mine entrance of th .hundreds ot curious who cam to watch th rescus work. Fourteen men wer working within th mln about one mil from th entrance en-trance when the explosion took place. All entered a pocket In th wall of the mine and were rescued uninjured at ' T:0 o'clock laat Bight Shortly before midnight the work of Identification Ot dead wa halted, authorities au-thorities and official taming all ot their attention to earing for the -Injured. The force of th explosion was felt ta Birmingham, nln mile distant ''..' ". ' '. ' |