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Show Blast Exacts Toll of Lives Clymer, Pa. Forty-six miners were believed to have been killed here last Thursday in an explosion which wrecked the interior of Clymer No. 1 mine of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal corporation. Four men escaped alive and are in a hospital seriously injured. injur-ed. Practically all hope for the entombed en-tombed men was abandoned after Dr. W. E. Dodd, company physician, explored ex-plored the mine as far as possible. He said the blast caused widespread devastation de-vastation and that the tunnels were so heavy with gas that no human could survive. He said that within the slope, under piles of rock, he saw the bodies of six miners. Some were badly bad-ly mangled, while others, he said, bore no marks, indicating that they were victims of gas. |