| Show TWENTY T U DEAD D DIG EIGHTEEN IG DD Result of Or a n Fearful Explosion at It atThe atThe The Joseph Letter Coal Mine At III MAY HAVE BEEN GAS CAS CASOR OR NOT HOT As Only paly NonUnion Non UnIon lien Arc Employ Employed ed Suspicion Points Besides Accident A lii April 3 A report irons from Zeigler III 16 miles from Crom here says there hero has been heena n 11 fearful gill gas ex ox explosion ex In the tho Joseph Josuph Letter Latter coal mine Twenty miners were killed and JS S wounded According c to reports received here hero the entire opening of the tho at itt the tha th surface Is I wrecked Although tho the ex ox Is attributed to gas gns suspicion exists that thiet there may haVe been an au another another other cause caulle Only nonunion men aru employed In the mine since the tho strike for tor Increased wages some omo months ago resulting In riots and In III lie he presence of ot militia and armed armell guards Huard The last of tho tIm troops were recently withdrawn although reports were current that there had hIld been attempts to bribe oUt vials flats to permit outsiders to gain en cn entrance trance tronco to the tho mine the object being to tomako malta mako the tho mine unworkable State Mine Mille Inspector Atkinson reported at nt athis his 1118 last examination of ot the shaft that hunt ISO men were wore employed In two shifts Tho Tue explosion Is I reported to have havo oc no occurred currod as os the two shifts were chang changing ing today |
