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Show DUST EXPLOSION KILL EN MANY OF THE INJURED MINERS RESCUED FROM COLLIERY MAY DIE Trapped Men Who Fall to 'Escape Into Adjoining Mine Save Lives by' tho Erection of D.'at- tlces Birmingham Following rcsctio work which progressed throughout tho night, officials of tbo Woodward Iron mlno company, owners ot Dolomlto mine N'o. fl, whore n dust oxploslon trappod l"fi minors Wednesday afternoon, announced an-nounced that clghty-throo bodies hnd heen taken from tho mlno, and that they fenred tho total toll of dontl might roach 100. Approximately Blxty mon woro reported to havo boon in-lured in-lured by tbo blast Scenes of pathos about the mlno mouth during tho night and early morning morn-ing hours continued as relatives nnd families of minors known to havo bocn !n tho mine when tho blast occured waltod expectantly for no we of tholr lovod on oi. Many of these men, it was bollovod, had reached the Biirfaco safely through tho runway connecting tho mlno with mno No. 2, nnd had re-cntorod tho workings to help In rescue work without with-out cot'nmunlcntfon with company officials of-ficials or relatives. Ono roscuor told of an unldentltlod mine foreman who assembled about him thirty workers and Boon after the blast took pluce, ordered nil to remain with him nnd work on fixing up brattices brat-tices with stones and canvass to shut off tho dreaded after dump gas that ho folt sura was to follow tho explosion. explo-sion. According to tho rescue workers ono minor objected to remaining with tho rest of tho men, nnd begnn to fight his way outward. Tho rest stayed bo-hind bo-hind nnd completed the brattice of atones and canvass. Whon tho fans wero started and the air cleared sufficiently Uj mnko It s:ifo to tear down tho temporary wall and the foreman led his men out, the body of tho man who refused to stick with the rest was found only a few feet away from tho temporary brattice, a victim of the gns. Tales of single mluers who hurriedly built walls across niches nnd hollows in tho workings, stopping tho chinks with parts of their own clothing and thus saving their lives from tho gaBeo. wore numerous as rescuo squads reach' ud tho surface. |