Show mexican mine disaster twenty four miners were billed killed and about fifty others seriously wounded in an explosion of gas thursday night in lag esperanzas zas coal mines the property of the mexican coal col cot e company cora pany at Barrat mexico the disaster was caused by the ignition of gas by the flame from a defective lamp the men were m ere on the point of quitting work for the day probably men were in the mine at the time of the explosion fully fifty escaped with broken limbs and scorched flesh |