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Show Miners Lose Their Lives in a Colliery ' Explosion. An explosion of gas and coal dust in the coal shaft at Sandoval, 111., Tuesday, Tues-day, resulted in the death of six men. Five others were terribly burned about the heads and chest. The accident was due to an accumulation In the mine from imperfect ventilation and from coal dust, which had been allowed al-lowed to gather to a depth of two feet in many places. The force of the explosion ex-plosion wrecked the interior of the mine, destroying trapdoors and knocking knock-ing down pryps. |