Show MEET AWFUL EATH EIGHTEEN LIVES SNUFFED OUT BY EXPLOSION IN AN OHIO COAL MINE some of tile the victims believed to have been suffocated by after damp while others met in stant slant death Stu benville 0 tho lives of eighteen miners were snuffed out in a tremendous explosion in the cheny ohio coal companas comp anys mine at amsterdam friday night seven men bruised and burned were rescued from the mine aud and their escape front from death la Is regarded as miraculous the interior of the mine was wrecked and all ventilation shut off the cause has not yet been determined the mine had been inspected but two days before batore the explosion by deputy inspector thomas morrison Morr lson from the condition underground it la Is said eald the explosion in point of force foice 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 every car was shattered the trainmen fled as a car of dynamite was attached to the train I 1 after working all night the rescuing crews located six bodies during the afternoon government experts from the geological laboratory at pittsburg arrived with oxygen outfits they failed to find more bodies 0 0 jones the night superintendent was blown over several cars and gas flames passed over him jones when found was badly burned and bruised all the other men rescued were burned but none seriously two men brothers were found borund locked in each others arms this leads to the belief that the men were not killed instantly but were suffocated by afterdamp after damp |