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Show MEN MEET DEATH IK MINE OVER ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST IN ALABAMA MINE. The Explosion Is Believed to Have! Been Caused by an Accumulation of Dust. By nn explosion In tho Virginia mine, about eighteen miles southwest of Birmingham, Alabama, moro than a hundred union miners nro entombed, nnd It Is believed the ontlro number suffered nn nwful death. Scores of vigorous rescuers nro nt work digging Into tho mlno to relievo their friend? nnd comrndos In tho lnsldo. Tho explosion Is believed to hnvo boon caused by an accumulation of dust, nlthnugh tho mlno tins horotofore been noted for being entirely frco from dust. It Is nlso believed that ns tho entlro quoin bns probably been killed, tho details of the cnuso of tho dlsns-ter dlsns-ter will never bo known. Tho clnss of miners employed wns tho best In tho district nnd all belonged be-longed to the United Mlno Workers of Amoricn. Since tho strike hns been on In tho Illrmlnghnm district many of tho most Industrious nnd thrifty miners of Prntt City nnd other lm-porlnnt lm-porlnnt mining points hnvo romoved to tho Virginia mines, so thnt tho mines wcro being worked to their full enpne-Ity enpne-Ity by tho most skilled miners In tho community. ' |