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Show Explosion's Death) Roll Seventy.Two Miners Are Believed to Have Perished tn Dl.a.ter at Pltt.bura. Five Men Are Killed When Cage Fall. Pittsburg, April 23. Two minors are known to bo dead, and 2 others, It Is feared, hajvo porlsbed' In the Cincinnati raino ot tho Monongahola Rlvor Consolidated Coal & Coko company com-pany at Finleyvlllo near this city, where a gnsacxploslon occurred this aftorncon. Tho raino Is on lire and repeated attempts ot rcscuo parties to enter the mlno hro frustrated by the flames. Thero wero a hundred njon at work In tho mlno at the time of the explosion. ex-plosion. Twonty escaped by way of ono of tho ventilating fans, six otti-n otti-n wero tnkon out badly burned nnd tho bodleB of tho two dead men wore recovered near tho mouth of 'he mine Tho rescued say th.v those left In Continuod on page five. EXPLOSION'S DEATH ROLL Continued from page ono tho mlno must havo perished in tho gas fumes. Five Killed tn Butte Butte, Mont., April 23. FIvo mln-era mln-era wero killed and nine Injured In an accident at tho old shaft of the Leonard mlno of tho Anaconda Cop- per company his morning William Peters lost control of the hoisting engine, ns ho wtis lowering two cages of men into Up mine Both cages dropped to tn. ump, cno falling 2,000 fret and the other 800. Tho on-glno on-glno went to pieces, wrecking the engine houso nnd throwing pieces of steel hundreds of feet. Ono piece of wreckage struck a miner, killing him Instantly. Tho other men killed outright were on tho cago that dropped from the surfnpo. Their bodies had not been recovered up to noon. Nono of tho injured, It Is believed will dlo. Peters, tho engineer, who stuck to his post ai his engine was wrecked, collapsed nnd his condition Is serious. Ho is unable to explain the accident except to say that the engine went to pieces . Moro than two thousand feet of cablo fell on tho cago In tho west compartment and It may bo many hours beforo tho four bodies In that cago aro recovered. |