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Show DUST EXPLOSION KILLSMANY MEN MANY OF THE INJURED MINER8 RESOUED FROM COLLIERY MAY DIE Trapped Men Who Fall to "Escape Into Adjoining Mine Save Lives by the Erection of Brattices Brat-tices Birmingham Following rescuo work Which progrossod throughout tho night, officials ot the Woodward Iron mino company, owners ot Dolomite mine No. 8, whoro a dust explosion trapped 75 minors Wednosdny attornoon, announced an-nounced that olghty-throo bodlos had boon taken from tho mino, nnd that they foarod tho total toll of dead might reach 100. Approximately sixty men woro roportod to have beon injured in-jured by tho blasL Scones ot pathos about tho mino mouth during tho night nnd early morning morn-ing hours continued as relatives and families of miners known to have beon In tho mino when tho blast occurod waitod expectantly for nows ot tholr loved onos. Many ot theso men, it was bolioved, had reached tho surfaco safely through tho runway connoctlng the mino with mino No. 2, and had ro-ontored the workings to holp In rescuo work without with-out communication with company officials of-ficials or relatives. Ono roscuor told ot an unidentified mine foromon who nssombled about him thirty workers and soon nttor the blast took place, ordered all to remain with him and work on fixing up brattices brat-tices with stones and canvas: to shut off tho dreaded otter damp gas that ho felt suro was to follow the explosion. explo-sion. According to the rescue workers one miner objected to remaining with the rest ot tho men, and began to tight his way outward. The rest stayed behind be-hind and completed tte brattice ot stones and canvass. Wbea the tans wore started and, the air cleared sufficiently to make it safe to tear down tho tomporary wall and the foreman led bis men out, the body of the man wbo refused to stick with the rest was found only a few foet away from the tomporary brattice, a victim ot tho gas. Tales ot slnglo miners who hurriedly built walls across niches and hollows to tho workings, stopping the chinks with parts of their own clothing and thus saving their lives from tho gases, woro numerous as roscue squads roached roach-ed the eurfaco. |
