Show p icy tw p meet AWFUL DEATH EIGHTEEN LIVES SNUFFED OUT BY EXPLOSION IN AN OHIO COAL MINE some of the victims believed to have been suffocated by after damp while others met instant death Stube aville 0 0 the lives ot of eighteen miners were snuffed snuff eil out in a tremendous explosion in tho the cheny ohio coal companas comp anys mine at amsterdam friday night seven men bruised and burned were rescued from the mine and their escape front from death Is regarded as miraculous the interior ot of tho the mine was wrecked and all ventilation shut abut off the cause has not yet been bee n determined tho mine had been inspected but bul two days before the explosion by deputy inspector Int thomas morrison from the condition underground it to Is said the explosion in point of force was the greatest ever recorded in ohio when the explosion occurred people thought there had been an earthquake A train was passing the mine and every window in iii every car was shattered the trainmen fled as a car of at dynamite was attached to the train after working all night the rescuing crews located six bodies during tho the afternoon government experts from the geological laboratory at pittsburg arrived with oxygen outfits they failed to find more bodies IS 0 jones the tha night superintendent was blown over several cars and gas flames passed over him jones when found was badly burn ed arid and bruised all the other men rescued were burned but none seriously two men brothers were found locked la each others arms arma this leads to the belief that the men were not killed instantly but were suffocated by afterdamp after damp |