Show NINETY ONE 01 MEN MENDIE MENDIE DIE HE If IN GOAL COAL MINE EXPLOSION CATCHES MINERS UNDERGROUND WORKINGS OF MI MINE E I I Writer Who Entered Shambles Tells Telia of ot Thirty One Dead At One Point Biggest Mining Disaster In Oklahoma's History Wilburton Okla The The Mo Degnan-Mo- Connell mine thine No 21 Thursday reluctantly antly gave back two lives two more morer 1 r the miners originally entombed in tn it After Arter veteran miners and rescue experts experts ex ex- had declared there was no possibility pos pos- of any of ot the tho entrapped miners being alive Cecil McKInney white and md Burl Hollis negro came out j Weak leak and trembling from twentythree twenty twenty- three hours' hours Imprisonment In tho the thomine mine McKInney crawled out before I an amazed am zed crowd of ot nearly arlY 2000 spectators s spectators spec spec- cc I and two hours later Hollis Hams was dragged out an and restored to conscious conscious- mess less by a I This makes ten of at the miners to o come out alive after arter their rendezvous ous with death The Tho death toll Is placed at 91 The maw of at the mine yielded fourteen fourteen four four- teen dead bodies by noon The rescue Df mf two men Thursday added I zest to the he rescuers and they renewed their work In hope of ot finding moxe more alive Four companions In McKinney's McKinneys tunnel were kill killed d b by the blast but by some miracle McKinney was not even knocked unconscious Without a light the miner crawled blind blindly 1 through the filled damp and strewn loath for twenty-three twenty hours Just before he came out he crawled over aver the dead body of his father Ed Boyle state mine inspector Ison is ison ison on tho the ground to conduct a state state probe of at the disaster Some people here believed that the accident nt was caused by byrone byone one of ot the theIre fire Ire bosses who knew of ot a gas pocket in n the mine The theory is that the fire tire boss said the he mine was safe believing that he could clear the gas pocket the miners came in but that one of ot the miners came In before the scheduled time Lime and walked into the pocket et wit Vi his open light |