Show EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE MINERS KILLED IN A TENNESSEE COLLIERY of the entire number of men and boy who went to work in the morning but one came out alive and be ll 11 go badly injured he cannot lite between and 25 men and boys met instant death at the fraterville Frat erville lenn coal nyne because of a gas ex of the large number of men and boys who went to work in the morning only one is alive and he is so badly in aured that 1 e cannot lire this man is william morgan an aged englishman who was a roadman in the mine he was blown out of tl e entrance by the force of the explosion the I 1 raters lie mine is the oldest in the coal creek tenn district baa aag been opened in 1870 it is fully three miles from the opening of the mine to the po nt where the men were at work they had not been at work long before the terrible explosion oc burred there was a fearful roar and then flames shot from the entrance and the air shafts bascue parties were at work in a short time but no lives could be saved every man had perished |