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Show TIT? WOMEN PERISH Id OUOMA COAL Mil Miners Imprisoned In Burning Shaft Being Suffocated Because of Destruction De-struction of Air Shaft. McAlester. Okla. Moro than thirty miners woro suffocated In Hally-Ola Goal mlno No. 1 nt Hallyvlllc, four miles east of McAlester, Wednesday morning, when fire destroyed tho hoisting shaft and air shnft nnd cui off air from tho men below. Twcnty-flvo dead bodies wori brought out Wednesday night, follow Ing a successful tluco hours' battll with tho flames. It Is believed that bIx or right moro will bo found Twonty-llvo mules wero suffocated and somo of their bodies wero burned Kxploratlons In tho channels ro vcnlcd tho fact that uono of tho men met death by burning, but that all ol, them wer suffocated. After tho entombed minors had gono down on the cago a flro broka out, occasioned by tho Ignition of n barrel of oil which u miner was trying try-ing to divide. Tho flames spread nt onco to tho hoisting shaft and tho air shaft, and all communication with tho top was at once cut off, Tito flrBt Intimation In-timation tliu people on top of tho ground had of tho troublo was tho flames and smoke coming out of tho top of tho shaft. Hundreds of miners min-ers rushed to tho sceno nnd trial to got Into tho air Bhaft, but ehis was Impossible, as llamca nud Binoko wero coming up that way with such forco as to drive them back. Then nn effort ef-fort was made to opoiato tho cirm ruunlng up and down the hoisting shafts, but It was found that, tho cages, tho cnbles and tho guides had been burned, Thoro was absolutely no help fur tho Imprisoned miners. |