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Show GAS EXPL051 1 WALLEDWORKERS RESCUERS FIND PASSAGES ARE CLOSED, ENTOMBING 19 MEN. FATE IS UNKNOWN Miners Believed Caught At Shaft; Rescue Car Sent Out By Special Train From Charleston To Scene Of Disaster Kucli.-H, W. Va. The known dead In the mine exploKlon here wan Increased lo ten ax reacue workei'H broke through a Imrrler or debris and found nine additional bodies near the ahaft bottom of tho Crab Orchard Improvement Improve-ment company's No. 5 mine. Workers redoubled their efforts to press their way Into the damaged workings, hoping hop-ing to find allvo some of the twenty other minora who were entombed by the blast. Ecclea, W. Va. With the lives of nineteen entombed miners at stake, rescue workers, headed by state and federal officials fought early to penetrate pene-trate a barrier of debris near the bottom bot-tom of tho shaft of a mine of the Crab Orchard Improvement company near hore, where an explosion took toll of at least ten lives besides walling in the nineteen whose fate was yet to be determined. The explosion, felt a few minutes before 7 o'clock, p. m., last Tuesday, not only closed entry to mine No. 5 In which the men were entombed, but sent a wave of death-dealing gas through a connecting passage into mine No. 6, whose shaft was a quarter of a mile away. Lowell Coins, negro loader, was killed by the fumes and several others Buffered 111 effects and were taken to the Dockley hospital for treatment, but of the forty in the No. G workings all except Coins were brought out alive. Fore more than five hours two of these men were listed as missing, but rescue workers pushing through the entries found one where he had hidden behind a trap door. |