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Show DISASTROUS MINE EXPLOSION TWENTY-THR-EE MEN KILLED IN WEST VIRGINIA MINE. a. " Loss Would Have Been Much Greater but for the Fact That a Small Force Vas Working on the Sunday Shift As a result of an explosion In shaft flo. 1 of tho United States Coal & Coke company at Wllcoo, W. Va., on Sunday, Sun-day, twonty-threo minors aro supposed to havo lost their lives, and It Is pos-slblo pos-slblo that tho numhor will exceed this, Fifteen bodies had been recovered at last reports, although a largo res cuo party Is at work In tho mines. It Is baroly possible, but not likely, that somo of tho remaining entombed minors will bo rescued allvo. Tho ex 'plosion was of terrific forco and shattered shat-tered windows a milo distant. Immediately Imme-diately after tho shock a1 great number num-ber of minors, who wer'o'off duty, rushed to tho shaft td 'find great clouds of smoko nnd dust gushing from Its mouth. Mothers," children and othor relatives wero soon weeping and pleading for tho rescuo of those dear to them entombed in tljo mlno. Tho 'ofllcIalB of tho mlno were soon on tho scone. Tho dead miners thus far rc-'covorod rc-'covorod aro all Italians and Hungarians. Hungar-ians. Tho company usually work In this shaft nbout sevqnty-flvo minors, (but it boing Sunday tho men wero not 'all in and the small loss of Hfo can bo attributed only tothis fact. Tho UniU od Coal &. Coko company, with principal prin-cipal offices In Pittsburg, Pa., Is part (Of tho TJnltod , States Steel, corpora-lion. corpora-lion. Tho caus'o of the explosion has !not as yot'been determined. |