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Show EXPLOSION COSTS TWENTY LIVES Fourteen Meet Death From Afterdamp After-damp and Six Are Killed Outright. Fayetteville, W. Va. Twenty miners min-ers were killed in an explosion in the Carlisle mine of the New River Coal company here Saturday. One hundred and sixty others, temporarily entombed, entomb-ed, were lifted to safety in the eage, or climbed out through airshafts. The Carlisle is a sister mine to the Par-rell, Par-rell, Stuart and Whipple mines, in which explosion in 1906 and and 1907 cost 120 lives. First reports were that six men had perished. State mine inspectors in a tour of the workings found the bodies of fourteen more men killed by afterdamp. |