Show MINE NINE EXPLOSION KILLS FOURTEEN Accident Occurs Near Scene of Fatality Last January SIXTY-FOUR SIXTY ARE ENTOMBED Survivors Escape Through Opening and Others Have Close Calls Charleston W. W Wa a Va May olo 1 l. Within four foul miles mills of or Stuart Smart where In January I 86 sc miners wore were killed an nn explosion lon occurred at nt 3 O o'clock to today n in the time j I Whipple Il shaft hat f entombing tit 64 men Pitt Fifty of or r the these escaped through an i I oJ opening and the death list will be he not more mor than 1 14 I The Tue known dead are arc Fred motor runner j tar Hay Wilson on sprinkler Ira I Kelly II driver Henry Milton table stable boss bo and three others were badly probably fatally burned burnell Robert rm Armstrong William Wilson Raleigh Tucker anti and Charles Charl Burgess Burges are arc ml missing and amid It is flare feared they mot met death The explosion took place In the tho main return heading 1 1200 OO feet south of or time the shaft and was wa caused b by a heavy hean shot which Ignited accumulated dust dust The interior of the mine was not damaged the tho force Corce of oC the explosion ion expending H Itself elt at ot lh the top o of the shaft shaf The cag cages were blown out nUt and the time tipple bu buildings ln were re wrecked Six Ix men working at nt time the tipple es escaped escaped es- es unhurt although h heavy ha timbers w were r hurled In every 1 direction There were no marks on the bodies of or the dead These rhes men w were rE suffocated suffocated uCo- uCo h by after damp anti and could coul 1 have hn been rescued had th they been heen reached MOOn sooner The hC first reports report Indicated the worst wort horror In the history of or the state aa nN It was WOM believed beHoved nt nl first I. I that I GO men were wert entombed Many had hader explosion left er the mine a n short hort time before the |