Show SIXTY NINE SIXTY NINE MINERS KILLED Collier r Reported to King ing George to be Safest in Co Country London Sixty nine Sixty nine miners were in a double explosion in the colliery in the district Tuesday Others are missing and the officers fear that the death roll will reach at least eighty Among the victims are three government government government govern govern- ment mine inspectors Many of the victims met death while attempting to rescue their comrades who were al ai- al- al ready cut off from escape by the first explosion While they w jre re being searched for a second and more terrific terrific ter ter- rifle explosion occurred which killed most of the rescuing party Several minor explosions followed the two hard ones An accumulation of gas ignited by the firing of a shot is to have caused the explosion I |