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Show EIGHTY LIVES SNUFFED OUT. Explosion In West Virginia Mint Brings Grief to Many Families. Charlesto, W. Vn. With a detonation detona-tion hoard for miles nnd hurling de-orls de-orls hundreds of feet in the air, dust in tho Stuart mlno near Fayettovlllc exploded Tuesday afternoon, bringing', & terrlblo death to eighty or more men who wero nt work 600 feet bolow the surface. There is no chonco that any will bo taken out alive, for It li thought that tho terrific force ot the explosion snuffed out their lives in Btantly. The disaster Id perhaps the worst. In tho number of killed, in tho hie tory of 'his stato. Most.pfi the men. wero Americans and many of them wero married and had largo families There woro a dozen or more colored men and about twenty nllons among tho victims. Tho rescue- work was begun as soon ns the shaft house could bo ropalrcd. |