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Show Defy Fate That Overt ook Comrade Rescuers 'r ii: U J . . T .j- gfejSSJSSfaaBBjBSBBa leBaBBBBBSBBSBBSBBBBBBaBSBBBV eBBBeBnBSBSBSBSBnBBT SaWSSXSSaSSBBBSaBBW SSI I I - SEARCHERS ENTERING MINE WHERE NINE DIED IN EXPLOSIONS Carrying; oxygen tanks an their backs, they brought out last body today. Ventilation Reported Cut Off In Mine Before Tragedy; Blasts DUBOIS, Ps., March 29 (AP) District Mine Inspector Tom Lewis said today he wss investigating a report that "ventilating fans hsd been cut off for several hours in the Kramer mine, whera two miners and seven rescue workers died in two explosions. They wer John McHenry, Dubois; Andrew O'Connor, Punxsutswney; George Hill, Dubois; 8teve Yasen-chak, Yasen-chak, SUmp Creek: William Lewi, Punxsutawney; William Laird, Big Run, and William McCracken, Dubois, Du-bois, asaistsnt foreman. Only a few people stood about the entrance of the pit as worker carried car-ried out ths bodies. Most of the miners min-ers hsd left ths village, eight mile outh of Dubois, over tbs Eastar holiday. Lealls Nedrlch, one of the rescue workers, described the discovery of the seven in the first rescue crew: "We found McCracken, Laird and Lewis, In charge of the Dubois area in northwestern Pennsylvania, ssid he had been told the fans ware idle "from 1 a. m. until 1 p. ra. Saturday Sat-urday (two hours before the first blast) because of a change at the power house." Ordinarily 800 msn work at the mine, but because of the five-day week fewer than a dosen men were there Saturday when the blasts tore through the northwest corner nearly near-ly two milea back in the shaft Rescue workers who bad tolled steadily for 27 hour brought out the last body-that of Francis Dixon, Dubois, early today. Dixon and Thomas Heberllng were killed in tha firt blast aa thev took an empty coal train into the mine . operated by the Northwest Mining and Exchange company. 1 Eight hundred feet nearer the en-I en-I trance lay the bodies of seven men i who had sought to rescue Dixon and Heberllng, but were hurled to death la the second and heavier I explosion about four hours after the first "O'Connor and Hill were 190 feet farther in the mine. Lewis and Henry had been blown into a aide entry. Lewi lsy face down with his coat over his hesd, as if hs hsd tried to avoid someb low. "O'Connor also lay in almost ths sams position. It was the only indication indi-cation we found that any of the men foreeaw their doom." |