Show explosion in coal mine which had just been inspected eJ by deputy state mine inspector either a pocket of gas or the seepage from a gas well was the cause of ace dent which caused fearful loss of life pittsburg more than were killed by an explosion in the jananna mines of the pittsburg but falo coal company on saturday which entombed a large cumbes numbes ot miners about fifty of the victims it Is re ported about the mine were either americans or english ing men ja majority of the foreigners were comparatively new arrivals in tha auntry many of them having left ta milies in their old homes the workings in which the batas catas happened are 1 as the rachel and agnes mine in reality a double mine with underground connections construction work was practically finished and deputy state mine inspector henry loutitt p few minutes before the on had completed a two days inspection which had revealed no ca se tor apprehension the cause of the explosion his not leen determined two theories are entertained one is that a pod et ol 01 gas was struck by one of the miners quickly fill ng the workings and then igniting from a lamp the other the ory Is that gas from a well on the farm under which the mine is located penetrated be workings the land in the vicinity is said to be gaseous and it Is possible gas may have seeped through the coal stratum until it accumulated in sufficient vol ume to cuse the disaster so great was the force of the e p ision that shattered portion of the woodwork about the mouth ot the shaft were blown into lomila ateek 2000 feet away besides the three men in the cage portions of at least two other bodies were blown from the shaft house and were found in a field nearby |