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Show ONE MAN ESCAPED. Explosion in Mine Resulted in Death of Eleven. Indiana, Pa. Ten Hungarians and one American met death in a gas explosion, ex-plosion, Saturday in the numerous stopes of the Furnace mine of the Jefferson & Clearfield Coal company, The explosion occurred in the heading head-ing where twelve men were working. One of these, Andrew vrazcer, escaped es-caped by crawling a quarter of a mile on his stomach to evade the noxious gases. One hundred and ten men working in the same stope escaped through other headings, although they wers held back for ten hours by the black damp, until a rescue party reached them. |