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Show Mexican Mine Disaster. Twenty-four miners wcro killed nnd about flfty others seriously wounded In nn oxploslon or gns Thursday night In Las Ksperanzas coal mines, the property or tho Mexican Coal & Coko company nt Parratobran, Mexico. The disaster was caused by tho Ignition of gas by tho flame from a defective lamp. Tho men woro on tho point of quitting work for tho dny. Probably 100 men wero In tho mlno at tho tlmo of tho explosion. .Fully flfty escaped with broken limbs and scorched tlesh |