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Show : SEVENTY KILLED IN jCOAL MI Not a Single One of the Workmen Who Went Down the III Fated Shaft Escaped Death. Fearful Explosion In English Coal Mine Causet Horrible Tragedy, the Bodies of the Unfortunate Unfortu-nate Men Being Badly Mangled. Wlgan, England. It Is not bolloved that a slnglo man of tlio sovonty miners min-ers who wore entombed by an explosion ex-plosion which occurred In tho May-polo May-polo coal mlno horo survived tho disaster. dis-aster. Tho four mon reported rescued res-cued were engaged in an adjoining compartmont. Tho ventilating fan which was put out of ordor by tho explosion wan ro-paired ro-paired Wednesday morning nnd tho mlno having been cloarod of gases, tho rescue party again descended. Tho Bight which mot tholr eyes was horrifying. Not far from tiro bottom of tho shaft, clghtcon bodies wero found, all frightfully mutllatod, anna and legs had been blown off nnd heads battered almost boyond recognition. recog-nition. Tho management of tho mlno declares de-clares that between sixty nnd sovonty men wero nndor ground at tho tlnm i'i ot tho explosion, uud llml lliuru Is no bopo that any of them would bo brought out nllvo. Tho womon and children, howovor, who romalncd at tho pit head all night, refused to Ileavo until tho bodies of their dead wero brought to tho surface. Nothing clso would convlnco them of tho hopolcssncss of waiting. |