Show TWO HUNDRED DIE IN MINE frightful explosion brings sudden death to many workers birmingham ala forty five white men and between and negroes were entombed in no 3 coal mine at palos thursday night as the result of a terrific explosion it Is believed all are dead palos Is forty miles west ot of birmingham and the mines are owned by the palos coal and coke company ot or this city ahe flames shot feet into the air from the mouth of the slope when the explosion occurred and the shock was felt for miles timbers from the slope were hurled several hundred feet from its mouth rocks from the root caved in and made access to the mine very difficult the first rescuers who went into the mine after the explosion were overcome by fire damp and had to bo be carried out the explosion Is supposed to have been caused by an uncovered lamp |