| Show MEET ML AWFUL DEATH EIGHTEEN LIVES SNUFFED OUT BY EXPLOSION IN AN OHIO COAL MINE some of tr ue 1 believed to have been suffocated by after damp while others met in stant death Stu benville 0 the lives ot of elsh elgh teen were snuffed out la in a tremendous dous explosion in the cheny ohio coal mine at amsterdam friday night seven men bruised und burned were rescued from the mine and their escape from death ie to regarded as an miraculous the interior of the mine was wrecked and all ventilation shut off the cause ha has not yet been determined the mine had been inspected but two daye days before the explosion by deputy inspector thomaa thomas morrison Morr lson from the condition underground it Is lit said the explosion in point of force was the greatest ever recorded in ohio when the explosion occurred people thought there hid been an earth quake A train was passing the mine and every window in every car was shattered the trainmen fled as an a ear car of dynamite was attached to the train after working all mat night the rescuing crews located elx six bodies during the afternoon government experts from the ecological geological laboratory at pittsburg arrived with oxygen outfits they failed to find more bodice bodies 1 0 jones tho the eight night superintend ont nt was blown over several care cars mid and gas flames passed over him jones when found was badly burn bum ed d and bruised all the other men rescued were burned but none seri sort bously two men brothers were found locked in each others arms this leads lead to the belief bellet that the th men were not killed instantly but were suffocated by afterdamp after damp |
