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Show POWDER MAGAZINE BLEW UP. Twenty-three Alaskan Miners Victims of Explosion. Juneau, Alaska. Twenty-threo miners min-ers wero killed Thursday night by nn explosion of a powder magazine- in the 1,100-foot loyel of tho Mexican mine, ono of the group of Treadwell. gold propertied on -Douglas Island.' Eight men wr.o. seriously Jnjured, of whom It Is "feared four will die.- Tho last shots 'had been fired by tho shift of men twonty minutes be-foro be-foro 'the explosion took place', and tho men h?.d assembled at tho landing of tho skip and wero waiting to enter It and go on top. Tho magazine, which contained 275 pounds of powder, was thirty feet from the placo whoio tho men woro standing, and every ,man was killed or Injured. |
