Emery County Progress | 1915-02-13 | Page 2 | Explosion Costs Twenty Lives

EXPLOSION COSTS TWENTY LIVES Fourteen Meet Death From Aftc damp and Six Are Killed Outright FayettevUle, W. Va. Twenty rubers rub-ers were killed ln an explosion in Carlisle mine of the New River Ci company here Saturday. One hundrei and sixty others, temporarily entombed, entomb-ed, were lifted to safety in the cU'-or cU'-or climbed out through airshafts. Carlisle is a sister mine to the rell, Stuart and Whipple mines, i: which explosion in 1906 and and 1? : cost 120 lives. First reports were that six ni had perished. State mine inspector; in a tour of the workings found t's bodies of fourteen more men killed t1 afterdamp. j